American Higher Education: A Documentary History

Contents
Part VI: The Demand for a True University
	Introduction
	1. Francis Wayland’s Report to the Brown Corporation, 1850
	2. Henry P. Tappan on University Education, 1851
	3. F. A. P. Barnard Decries Principles Governing College Communities, 1855
	4. Henry P. Tappan on the Idea of the True University, 1858
	5. Andrew D. White’s Description of Michigan under Tappan, ca. 1860
	6. The “Cornell Idea” Forms in White’s Mind, 1860–65
	7. Organizing Cornell, 1865
	8. Ezra Cornell Denies That He Founded an “Aristocratic” University, 1865
	9. Sectarian Attacks upon Cornell, 1868–74
	10. F. H. Hedge on University Reforms, 1866
	11. The Morrill Act, 1862
	12. James Morgan Hart Compares the German University and the American College during the 1860’s
	13. The Governing Board of the Sheffield Scientific School Calls for New Principles in Education, 1868
	14. A State Senator Argues for a Liberal Curriculum at Iowa State Agricultural College, 1884
Part VII: Organizing the Modern American University
	Introduction
	1. Daniel Coit Gilman Reviews the Accomplishments of the University Era, 1869–1902
	2. Charles William Eliot, Inaugural Address as President of Harvard, 1869
	3. Eliot on the Scientific Schools, 1869
	4. The Johns Hopkins Trustees Are Advised To Select Gilman, 1874
	5. Gilman Recalls the Early Days of the Johns Hopkins, 1876
	6. G. Stanley Hall Describes Gilman’s Policies at the Hopkins in the 1880’s
	7. John W. Burgess’ Program for the American University, 1884
	8. Charles Kendall Adams Argues the Merits of the State University, 1875
	9. Andrew D. White Reviews His Achievements at Cornell, 1893
	10. Woodrow Wilson on “Princeton in the Nation’s Service,” 1896
Part VIII: The Development of the Elective System
	Introduction
	1. Noah Porter Rejects the Elective System, 1871
	2. Charles William Eliot Expounds the Elective System as “Liberty in Education,” 1885
	3. James McCosh Attacks the New Departure and President Eliot, 1885
	4. The New Curriculum: Some Views from the Nation, 1882
	5. How the Elective System Actually Worked at Harvard in 1900
	6. Harvard’s Appraisal of Her Elective System in 1904
Part IX: University Faculties and University Control
	Introduction
	1. Andrew D. White on Faculty Status in the 1870’s and 1880’s
	2. Daniel Coit Gilman on the Spirit of the First Johns Hopkins Faculty and Trustees, 1876
	3. Gilman Recounts the Founding Principles at the Johns Hopkins, 1876
	4. White on the Distribution of Administrative Powers in the 1880’s
	5. G. Stanley Hall Describes William R. Harper’s Raid upon the Clark Faculty, 1892
	6. An Academic Scientist’s Plea for More Efficient University Control, 1902
	7. G. Stanley Hall on Academic Unrest before World War I
	8. William Rainey Harper’s Decennial Report, 1902
	9. J. McKeen Cattell on Reforming University Control, 1913
	10. Carl Becker on the Atmosphere of Cornell after 1917
	11. Thorstein Veblen Satirizes the Conduct of Universities by Businessmen, 1918
	12. A. Lawrence Lowell Justifies the Control of Universities by Laymen, 1920
Part X: Academic Freedom in the University
	Introduction
	1. Daniel Coit Gilman’s Declaration on Intellectual Freedom, 1875
	2. Alexander Winchell’s Encounter with Bishop McTyeire, 1878
	3. Andrew D. White’s Comment on the Winchell Case, 1878
	4. Noah Porter Objects to William Graham Sumner’s Use of Herbert Spencer in Undergraduate Courses, 1879
	5. Sumner’s Review of His Controversy with Porter, 1881
	6. David Kinley Recalls the Attack on Richard T. Ely, 1894
	7. The Wisconsin Regents Speak for Academic Freedom, 1894
	8. The A.A.U.P.’s “General Declaration of Principles,” 1915
	9. A. Lawrence Lowell on Academic Freedom in Wartime, 1917
	10. Charles A. Beard Notifies Nicholas Murray Butler of His Resignation from Columbia, 1917
	11. The New York Times Comments on Beard’s Resignation, 1917
	12. Charles Beard Explains the Reasons for His Resignation, 1917
Part XI: Higher Education for the Twentieth-Century World
	Introduction
	1. Alexander Meiklejohn Defines the Liberal College, 1912
	2. The Columbia College Faculty Devises a Course in Contemporary Civilization, 1919
	3. Abraham Flexner Criticizes the American University, 1930
	4. A Scientist Analyzes a New Mode of Attack on the Colleges, 1931
	5. Robert M. Hutchins Assesses the State of the Higher Learning, 1936
	6. Harry D. Gideonse on Hutchins and Flexner, 1937
	7. John Dewey on Hutchins’ Philosophy of Education, 1937
	8. James Bryant Conant on the Meaning of General Education, 1945
	9. The Harvard Report on General Education, 1945
	10. The President’s Commission on Higher Education for Democracy, 1947
	11. Hutchins on the President’s Commission, 1948
Index