Download or read book What an American University Should Be Classic Reprint written by James McCosh and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from What an American University Should Be A college is fitted to do immeasurable good, though it should not rise into a university. Of the two, if we are obliged to choose between, a college well equipped and devoting itself to its work is of vastly greater use than a scattered university which spreads over a wide surface, and, professing to teach everything, teaches nothing effectively. The grand aim of our educationists, and, indeed, of all who love their country, should be to strengthen and improve the American colleges and make them fulfill their high end-that of imparting definite instruction, each to a body-of promising young men spread all over the country. Here I may state that I do not feel inclined to indulge in the disparaging language sometimes applied to the smaller colleges by our haughty Eastern professors, who forget that their colleges were babies before they became men, and were brought out of the land of Egypt, and came through the wilderness. Most of these younger colleges are serving a good purpose. They all do so, so far as they give solid, and not superficial, knowledge; so far as they teach thor oughly the fundamental and disciplinary branches of litera ture, science, and philosophy', and also impart religious instructions to give a high tone to the mind. They draw a number of young men from their vicinity who could never be allured to more distant and expensive places. If they cannot impart a wide and varied culture, they often give a substantial training. It is a happy circumstance that in almost all these colleges religion is inculcated; and they may be the means of com pelling our larger colleges not to abandon it, when they might be led to do so by the pressure of the times. I admit, as to some of them, that they seem to serve little other pur pose than to keep back young men from better colleges, where they might get stimulus and true scholarship. But these will give way, by the force of that law of our world, the struggle for existence, which demands that the weak die while the/ strong survive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Great American Universities Classic Reprint written by Edwin E. Slosson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Great American Universities The unprecedented growth of American universities in recent years and their efforts to conform or to resist con formity with the demands of the times have effected such a transformation it is difficult to get a clear idea of their present condition and relative standing. A list of the larger universities arranged in the order of their size, wealth, scholarly productivity, or other objective criterion has surprises for almost every reader. He finds in the list and near the head of it names of institutions about which he knows little, and probably some of those whose names are most familiar to him are really very different from his conception of them, derived from their history or from early acquaintance. The alumnus who returns for the decennial reunion finds his Alma Mater greatly changed. Usually he is inclined to think that the change has not been altogether for the better in spite of the new buildings and crowds of students. He can, in fact, name the date when his Alma Mater began to decline and to lose the real old college spirit. It was ten years ago, when was gradu ated what is universally conceded by all its members to be the brightest class that ever came forth from its walls. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The American Colleges and the American Public Classic Reprint written by Noah Porter and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Colleges and the American Public The first large edition of this work having been exhausted for several years, a second is now submitted to the American Public, with the addition of several papers on subjects that are nearly related to the topics already discussed. The writer trusts that it will be remembered that not one of the essays in the volume is exhaustive of its theme, and that the suggestions which they contain are expressed very frankly, with the expectation that they will not receive the assent of many who read them. The interests involved, however, are too important to allow the concealment of opinions which concern some of the most important interests of the community. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The American University Classic Reprint written by Edward Delavan Perry and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-24 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American University Professor Ladd Of Yale university, in an essay originally read before the Round Table of Boston, about 1888, and republished in his little book, The Higher Education, ' says: Any one possessed Of the requisite information knows at once What is meant by the university Of France, the English universities, or a German university; but no one can become so conversant with facts as to tell What an American uni versity is. And again: it is scarcely less true than it was a score of years ago, that, although there may be uni versities in America, no one can tell What an American university is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Higher Education in the United States of America Classic Reprint written by James H. Kirkland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Higher Education in the United States of America American college, its absorption in the high school on the one hand and the university on the other. Dr. Burgess in an essay published in '85 on The American University said: I confess that I am unable to divine what is to be ultimately the position of colleges which cannot become universities and will not be gymnasia. It will be largely a waste of capital to maintain them. It is so now. But in spite of this dire prophecy the position of the college is stronger to-day than it was when Dr. Burgess wrote. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book American University Progress and College Reform Relative to School and Society Classic Reprint written by James Hutchins Baker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American University Progress and College Reform Relative to School and Society Definition. The Ideal.. (1) Science and Humanism (2) Student and Teacher (3) Discovery of Genius (4) Academic Freedom. (5) Creative Power. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book English in American Universities Classic Reprint written by William Morton Payne and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English in American Universities The methods employed by our schools in the teaching of English literature have, for some years past, been in a transition stage, exhibiting a strong tendency towards more enlightened ways of dealing with this vastly important subject. The fermentation is of the healthful type, and a fairly clarified product may not unreasonably be expected to result. When Matthew Arnold declared the future of poetry to be immense, he expressed a truth whose full significance may be realized only upon considerable reflection, and the assumption of a broadly philosophical standpoint from which to view the coming conquests of culture. The same idea was expressed, with something of humorous exaggeration, by the author of The New Republic, who attributed to John Stuart Mill the opinion that "when all the greater evils of human life shall have been removed, the human race is to find its chief enjoyment in reading Wordsworth's poetry." To indicate the importance of a due appreciation of literature I hardly need, upon this occasion, to repeat the hackneyed quotations in praise of books, from Richard de Bury to Mr. Ruskin; it may surely be taken for granted that, allowing Arnold's demand on behalf of conduct for a good three-fourths of our life, a considerable share of the remaining fraction may be claimed for literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The American College Classic Reprint written by Andrew Fleming West and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American College But in this region the American college merges itself into the university, and it may be fairly asserted that in the last year and in some colleges in the last two years the student is really a university student. In these various ways we are to-day experimenting in order to find a form under which to organize the rapidly-increasing mass of elective studies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Study of History in American Colleges and Universities Classic Reprint written by Herbert Baxter Adams and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Study of History in American Colleges and Universities Francis Bowen is now the Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity. His present title indicates the somewhat mosaic character of his professional work, but it by no means represents the variety of subjects which Professor Bowen has taught since he began his pedagogical career at Harvard College as tutor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Harvard written by George Gary Bush and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Harvard: The First American University Of young men for the ministry. Nothing could show clearer the spirit of these early colonists. Though less than four thousand in number, and scattered along the shores of Massachusetts Bay in sixteen hamlets, they were, nevertheless, able to engage in such an enterprise before ade quate provision had been made for food, raiment, shelter, a civil government, or divine worship; at a time when soil and climate had disappointed them, and their affairs were in a most critical condition; for, not only were they called to face famine, dis ease, and death, but the mother country and the surrounding sav age tribes were threatening them with war. The importance, not only of mental cultivation, but also of Christian learning, they had always valued in England, and, as they built their homes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The American College written by Abraham Flexner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American College: A Criticism This book is based on an educational experience of almost twenty years, in the course Of which I prepared many pupils for college; I tried also to ob serve their development during and after their college careers. Subse quently I spent two years as graduate student at two different American uni versities, and something above a year in England and Germany, where I eu joyed opportunities for observation. I have, moreover, frequently compared notes with teachers in secondary schools, colleges, universities and pro fessional schools, whose experience has been in some respects fuller and more. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Should American Colleges Be Open to Women as Well as to Men A Paper Presented to the Twentieth Annual Convocation of the University of the State of written by Frederick A. P. Barnard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Should American Colleges Be Open to Women as Well as to Men?: A Paper Presented to the Twentieth Annual Convocation of the University of the State of New York, at Albany, July 12, 1882 Supposing, however, tor the sake of argument, that women are naturally the intellectual interiors of men. It cannot, nevertheless, be denied that women have intellects, nor that such intellects as they have should be properly cultivated. If the experience of some centuries is worth any thing our colleges present the instrumen talities best adapted for developing the capacities ot growing minds. These instrurnentalities must be presumed to be adapted to the needs of the masculine mind in very tender years; for I find thaf until quite recently, it was not unusual in American colleges to-re ceive boys at ages as low as from nine to thirteen. Now whatever we may assume to be the mental inequality between the sexes, no one can maintain that a young woman of seventeen or eighteen is likely to be inferior 111 mental capacity to a boy of ten or eleven. If such a boy can be improved therefore by the instruction which the college affords, so p1obably can a girl a few years older, and there rs no just reason for denying her the opportunitv for such improvement. The argument therefore, for the exclusion of women from colleges, derived from their presumed intellectual inferiority, is without foundation; and if it were not so, it is simply a piece of sophistry designed to conceal the deeper lying reason in the mind of the objector, which perhaps he is ashamed or unwilling to avow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The American University written by E. R. Holme and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American University: An Australian View The document that follows is a book only in appear ance. It began as an individual private report, supplementary to a series whose' authors were a Committee; and it was mainly written, as such, during a sea-voyage, without aid from a library and without thought of publication. The writer's intention was to furnish the Australian Universities with general answers to certain questions concerning American Universities; and to attach, in an appendix, much detailed information about particular courses of study, methods of administration and discipline, and the like. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Universities and Scientific Life in the United States Classic Reprint written by Maurice Caullery and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Universities and Scientific Life, in the United States His book is based on observations and impressions which I gathered during a stay of five months in the United States. As a' biologist, I describe the university landscape above all from the scientific and more specially from the biological point of view, but with the design of making the whole of it understood and of setting it into the gen eral framework of contemporary American society. During the second half-year of 1915 - 16, I had the honor of being Exchange Professor at Harvard Univer sity. And my first word here must be to affirm, once more, the very great utility of exchanges of professors between French and American universities. They are among the most efficacious means of helping the two countries to know, esteem and aid one another. The great mass cannot cross the Atlantic; but if the educa tors of youth have done so, they may help to dissipate many prejudices. They are almost bound, it seems to me, not to keep to themselves the experience acquired, however incomplete their Observations may Often be. That is what has determined me to write the following pages. I wish that they may make better known in France an aspect of American democracy, which is not that under which we are most commonly led to look at it, and also that they may emphasize the efforts which the immediate consequences of the war imperiously oblige us to make without delay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The American College in American Life Classic Reprint written by Charles Franklin Thwing and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American College, in American Life Ith the growth of American life has grown the American college. The college has enlarged its constituency it has gained in material worth and significance it has related itself more vitally and more gener ally to life. It has made appeals of increasing urgency to the American people for sustenance, - and these appeals have not been without avail, - and it has asked also for the privilege of giving itself through its graduates to every worthy cause. It may not be too much to say that the college has tried to be of the utmost value to man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book An American University Classic Reprint written by U. S. National Education Association and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An American University Hon. Newton Bateman, Springfield, Illinois. Hon. B. C. Hobbs, Indianapolis, Indiana. Hon. A. S. Kissel, Des Moines, Iowa. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book American Colleges written by Charles F. Thwing and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Colleges: Their Students and Work More than those of Yale, with the exception of Greek, and Yale's slightly more than those of Amherst. Michigan, though admitting the graduates of the best. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
