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The origins of federal support for higher education : George W. Atherton and the land-grant college movement /

The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education revises the traditional interpretation of the land-grant college movement, whose institutions were brought into being by the 1862 Morrill Act to provide for "the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes." Rather than bein...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Roger L. (Roger Lea)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1991.
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  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Illustrations and Credits
  • Preface
  • 1. A New Interpretation
  • 2. The Land-Grant Movement's First Fifty Years
  • Higher Education in the Antebellum Period
  • The Utilitarian Impulse
  • The Rise of Science
  • The Beginnings of Agricultural Science
  • The Emergence of Agricultural Colleges
  • The Politics of the 1862 Morrill Act
  • The Land-Grant Colleges in Their First Decade
  • 3. A New Advocate Emerges
  • Formative Years
  • Rutgers and National Service
  • An Ambitious Land-Grant Agenda
  • Atherton's Debut as Advocate for Land-Grant Colleges
  • First Efforts in Drafting Land-Grant Legislation
  • Congressional Investigation of 1874
  • Return to the Legislative Arena
  • The Land-Grant Colleges After Nearly Two Decades
  • Atherton Becomes a Land-Grant College President
  • 4. The Hatch Act and "the Association"
  • The Rising Influence of Agricultural Science
  • The Struggle for the Hatch Act, and the Preliminary Association Convention
  • Implications of the Hatch Act, and the Association's Founding Convention
  • 5. The Second Morrill Act
  • Atherton's Association Presidency and the Association Agenda
  • Campaign for the Second Morrill Act
  • Aftermath, Implications, and the Association's 1890 Convention
  • 6. The Association and the Emerging Federal Relationship
  • The College-Station Relationship and the Agriculture Department
  • The Adams Act
  • The Mechanic Arts
  • The Land-Grant College Curriculum
  • Graduate Training and the National University Idea
  • The Association and Military Instruction
  • Mining School Legislation
  • A Vehicle for Institutional Development
  • 7. The Atherton Legacy
  • George Atherton's Justin Morrill
  • Atherton's Role in Seminal Legislation
  • Atherton's Impact on the Association and the Land-Grant Colleges
  • The Second Great Triumvirate
  • The Association, the Land-Grant Colleges, and Higher Education
  • Appendix: "Memoranda as to George W. Atherton"
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index