Gentlemen and Scholars: College and Community in the Age of the University

by William Bruce Leslie and W. Bruce Leslie

Book Overview

Historians have dubbed the period from the Civil War to World War I "the age of the university," suggesting that colleges, in contrast to universities, were static institutions out of touch with American society. Bruce Leslie challenges this view by offering compelling evidence for the continued vitality of colleges, using case studies of four representative colleges from the Middle Atlantic region u Bucknell, Franklin and Marshall, Princeton,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412804582
• ISBN13: 9781412804585
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"