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American College History: Re-Examination Underway

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Jurgen Herbst*
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin—Madison

Abstract

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Type
Essay Review III
Copyright
Copyright © 1974 by New York University 

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References

Notes

1. Borrowman, Merle, “The False Dawn of the State University,” History of Education Quarterly, 1 (June, 1961): 622.Google Scholar

2. Hofstadter, Richard and Metzger, Walter P., The Development of Academic Freedom in the United States. (N.Y., 1955), p. 209.Google Scholar

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9. See Stone, Lawrence, “The Educational Revolution in England, 1560–1640,” Past and Present, 28 (1964): 4180, and the histories of American colleges and universities published from 1887 to 1903 by Herbert Baxter Adams as editor of the Contributions to American Educational History. Google Scholar

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11. On the Dartmouth case see Stites, Francis N., Private Interest and Public Gain: The Dartmouth College Case, 1819 (Amherst, Mass., 1972), on Trinity College see Maxwell, Constantia, A History of Trinity College, Dublin, 1591–1892 (Dublin 1946). Google Scholar