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Evan Pugh's Penn State - America's Model Agricultural College (Hardcover)
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Evan Pugh's Penn State - America's Model Agricultural College (Hardcover)
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When Evan Pugh became the first president of Pennsylvania's
Farmers' High School-later to be known as The Pennsylvania State
University-the small campus was in disrepair and in dire need of
leadership. Pugh was young, barely into his 30s, but he was
energetic, educated, and visionary. During his tenure as president
he molded the school into a model institution of its kind:
America's first scientifically based agricultural college. In this
volume, Roger Williams gives Pugh his first book-length
biographical treatment. Williams recounts Pugh's short life and
impressive career, from his early days studying science in the
United States and Europe to his fellowship in the London Chemical
Society, during which he laid the foundations of the modern
ammonium nitrate fertilizer industry, and back to Pennsylvania,
where he set about developing "upon the soil of Pennsylvania the
best agricultural college in the world" and worked to build an
American academic system mirroring Germany's state-sponsored
agricultural colleges. This last goal came to fruition with the
passage of the Morrill Act in 1862, just two years prior to Pugh's
death. Drawing on the scientist-academic administrator's own
writings and taking a wide focus on the history of higher education
during his lifetime, Evan Pugh's Penn State tells the compelling
story of Pugh's advocacy and success on behalf of both Penn State
and land-grant colleges nationwide. Despite his short life and
career, Evan Pugh's vision for Penn State made him a leader in
higher education. This engaging biography restores Pugh to his
rightful place in the history of scientific agriculture and
education in the United States.
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