Download or read book The Lehigh University Asa Packer Founder written by Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Honorable Asa Packer written by Eileen Potter Kopelman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Honorable Asa Packer led a life of ambition and fulfillment. The Judge worked hard and was smart. With luck, good timing and friends, he saw his wildest dreams come true. He was an associate judge of Carbon County, Pennsylvania, a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, a member of the House of Representatives in Washington, owned the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and founded Lehigh University. This biography will show the cocoon of life and influence around him.

Download or read book A History of Lehigh University written by Catherine Drinker Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lehigh University written by Willard Ross Yates and published by Lehigh University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. Ross Yates has chosen for his subject a history of education in engineering, business, and related fields as they developed at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. This work is neither an official institutional history nor a call to the nostalgia of "old grads," but a scholar's summary of some major trends in education whose interweaving produced Lehigh University, with original objectives that survived good and bad fortune, good and indifferent management, and an unfailing (if at times flawed) attention to evolving national vocational and liberal educational ideals. Asa Packer, builder of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, founded Lehigh University in 1865 to provide a useful, "common-sense" education for men planning careers in engineering, applied science, and the professions. He lavishly endowed it. With the declining fortunes of the Lehigh Valley Railroad in the 1890s, the university had to retrench, but it continued along lines laid down by Packer. About the turn of the century Lehigh added programs for careers in teaching and business. With aid from alumni and industries, especially its neighbor, the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Lehigh built strong undergraduate programs in engineering, science, business administration, teacher education, and the liberal arts. At every stage, Lehigh's development was bound up with the growth of a science-based society. Originally the interaction was most obvious at the local level. Situated in the industrial part of the lower Lehigh Valley in southeastern Pennsylvania, Lehigh was, until the First World War, removed from the large manufacturing and financial centers of the Atlantic seaboard and was intimately associated with local enterprises concentrating on anthracite coal, railroads, and heavy metals, especially iron, steel, and zinc. After the First World War, Lehigh began forming a capacity for sponsored research and branching out into graduate education. With the conclusion of the Second World War, these moves were speeded up. Lehigh entered the mainstream of currents in science, engineering, and industrial management. It broadened its financial base, modernized its administration, built up its capacity in physics and chemistry, added programs leading to the M.B.A., Ph.D., and Ed.D. degrees, and organized research centers. During the late 1960s student and faculty discontents, born of a collision between rapid internal growth and unsettling international situations, briefly delayed orderly progress. Trustees and administrators allayed discontents by bringing students and faculty into the work of administration. By 1980 the university was still small by modern standards, having approximately 4,400 undergraduate and half as many graduate students. It had become coeducational and continued concentrating on vocational preparation for careers in engineering, science, business, and teaching, all within the context of a liberal arts emphasis on the human condition.

Download or read book Higher Education Opportunity Act written by United States and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Educational History Journal written by Shirley Marie McCarther and published by IAP. This book was released on 2022-10-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (The official journal of the Organization of Educational Historians) The American Educational History Journal is a peer-reviewed, national research journal devoted to the examination of educational topics using perspectives from a variety of disciplines. The editors of AEHJ encourage communication between scholars from numerous disciplines, nationalities, institutions, and backgrounds. Authors come from a variety of disciplines including political science, curriculum, history, philosophy, teacher education, and educational leadership. Acceptance for publication in AEHJ requires that each author present a well-articulated argument that deals substantively with questions of educational history. AEHJ will accept two types of original unpublished manuscripts not under consideration by any other journal or publisher, for review and potential publication. The first consists of papers that are presented each year at our annual meeting. The second type consists of general submission papers received throughout the year. General submission papers may be submitted at any time. They will not, however, undergo the review process until January when papers presented at the annual conference are also due for review and potential publication. For more information about the Organization of Educational Historians (OEH) and its annual conference, visit the OEH web site: www.edhistorians.org

Download or read book Railroads of Pennsylvania written by Lorett Treese and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional histories of the great railroads Rail stories of the people and events that shaped history Rails to Trails paths, tourist attractions, and more Divides the state into regions and explores the major railroads, recounts the lore, profiles the individuals involved, and identifies places one can go to experience the relics of rail culture.

Download or read book The Lehigh University a Historical Sketch written by Edmund Morris Hyde and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of Lehigh University written by Catherine Drinker Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jim Thorpe the Legend Remembered written by Updyke, Rosemary K. and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the American Indian known as one of the best all-round athletes in history for his accomplishments as an Olympic medal winner and as an outstanding professional football and baseball player.

Download or read book Exercises at the Celebration of the Founder s Day Thursday October 9 1884 written by William Alexander Hammond and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Autobiography of John Fritz written by John Fritz and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries written by John Austin Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lehigh Burr written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Exercises at the Celebration of the Founder s day written by Lehigh University and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An American Musical Dynasty written by Paul Larson and published by Lehigh University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For the span of one hundred years, Peter, Theodore, and J. Fred. Wolle formed an American musical dynasty. While each musician was rooted in the Moravian musical tradition, particularly through the innovations of The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, their influence extended beyond the Moravian Church and became a major force in Bach performance in America. The early characterization of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania as the American Bayreuth remains an apt one to this day." "The musical tradition that shaped these musicians was centered in Nazareth (1740) and Bethlehem (1742), the first Moravian communities founded in Pennsylvania. In addition to schools for young children, the Moravians established academies for young men in Nazareth and for young women in Bethlehem. These academies became well known for their excellence. Music was central in both schools, and each had faculties of fine musicians trained in Europe who transplanted European musical excellence to American soil. As a result, during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, each academy provided a music education unsurpassed in America. In addition, each institution was closely attached to the vital music-making that pervaded all Moravian communities. Thus, this deep reverence for music in Nazareth and Bethlehem nourished and trained many fine musicians. For generations members of the same families sang, played musical instruments, and composed sacred music together." "This book is also about Moravian cultural patterns that produced so many musically productive men, women, and children who still shape life in the city of Bethlehem."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved