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Perspectives on the History of Higher Education - Volume 24, 2005 (Hardcover)
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Perspectives on the History of Higher Education - Volume 24, 2005 (Hardcover)
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The early twentieth century witnessed the rise of middle-class mass
periodicals that, while offering readers congenial material, also
conveyed new depictions of manliness, liberal education, and the
image of business leaders. "Should Your Boy Go to College?" asked
one magazine story; and for over two decades these middle-class
magazines answered, in numerous permutations, with a collective
"yes!" In the course of interpreting these themes they reshaped the
vision of a college education, and created the ideal of a
college-educated businessman. Volume 24 of the Perspectives on the
History of Higher Education: 2005 provides historical studies
touching on contemporary concerns--gender, high-ability students,
academic freedom, and, in the case of the Barnes Foundation, the
authority of donor intent. Daniel Clark discusses the nuanced
changes that occurred to the image of college at the turn of the
century. Michael David Cohen offers an important corrective to
stereotypes about gender relations in nineteenth-century
coeducational colleges. Jane Robbins traces how the young National
Research Council embraced the cause of how to identify and
encourage superior students as a vehicle for incorporating wartime
advances in psychological testing. Susan R. Richardson considers
the long Texas tradition of political interference in university
affairs. Finally, Edward Epstein and Marybeth Gasman shed
historical light on the recent controversy surrounding the Barnes
Foundation. The volume also contains brief descriptions of twenty
recent doctoral dissertations in the history of higher education.
This serial publication will be of interest to historians,
sociologists, and of course, educational policymakers.
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