The emergence of the American university / Laurence R. Veysey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Veysey, Laurence R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--United States--History.

Universities and colleges.

Universities--history.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Universities--history.

United States.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 505 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1965]

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

The American university of today is the product of a sudden, mainly unplanned period of development at the close of the 19th & the beginning of the 20th centuries. At that time the university, & with it a recognizably modern style of academic life, emerged to eclipse the older, religiously oriented college. Precedents, formal & informal, were then set which have affected the soul of professor, student & academic administrator ever since. What did those living in this formative period want the American university to become? How did they differ in defining the ideal university? Why did the institution acquire a form that only partially corresponded with these definitions? These are the questions Veysey seeks to answer.

Contents:

Introduction: The rise of academic reform.

pt. 1. Rival conceptions of the higher learning, 1865-1910. Discipline and piety ; Utility ; Research ; Liberal culture ; A season of reassessment, 1908-1910.

pt. 2. The price of structure, 1890-1910. The pattern of the new university ; The tendency to blend and reconcile ; The problem of the reconciled.

Conclusion: The university as an American institution.

Chronology of principal university administrations.

Notes:

Revision of the author's thesis, University of California, Berkeley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed August 26, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Veysey, Laurence R. Emergence of the American university

ISBN:

9780226841854

0226841855

OCLC:

1148924700

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