Rival conceptions of the higher learning, 1865-1910 -- A season of reassessment, 1890-1910 -- The price of structure, 1890-1910.
The American university of today is the product of a sudden, mainly unplanned period of development at the close of
the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. At that time the university, and with it a recognizably modern style of academic life, emerged to eclipse the older, religiously oriented college. Precedents, formal and informal, were then set which have affected the soul of professor, student, and academic administrator ever since--Cover.
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