The Emergence of the American University

by Laurence R. Veysey

Book Overview

The American university of today is the product of a sudden, mainly unplanned period of development at the close of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. At that time the university, and with it a recognizably modern style of academic life, emerged to eclipse the older, religiously oriented college. Precedents, formal and informal, were then set which have affected the soul of professor, student, and academic administrator ever...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226854566
• ISBN13: 9780226854564
• Release Date: March 1970
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

The invention of the modern university

By around 1910,according to Veywey, the Old Time College had been reinvented and the modern graduate school tacked onto it. The three functions of the new hybrid were to be teaching, research, and public service. This book is as scholarly and as delightful to read as Samuel Eliot Morison's histories of Harvard.