Author: Harvard UniversityPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Annual Report of the President of Harvard University to the Overseers on the State of the University for the Academic Year ...
Author: Harvard UniversityThe Annual Report of the President of Harvard University to the Overseers on the State of the University for the Academic Year ...
Author: Harvard UniversityFourteenth Annual Report of the President of Harvard University
Author: Harvard University President's OfficePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780364897973
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Excerpt from Fourteenth Annual Report of the President of Harvard University: To the Overseers, on the State of the Institution for the Academic Year, 1838-39 To the Honorable and Reverend Board of Overseers of Harvard University. The President of the University respectfully Reports, That the state of the seminary, during the last and present Academic year, has been highly satisfactory. The conduct of the undergraduates has been generally quiet and orderly, and their attention to their studies, regular and faithful. Which is respectfully submitted by Josiah Quincy, President. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Annual report of the president of Harvard College to the overseers exhibiting the state of the institution
Author: Harvard CollegeAnnual Report of the President of Harvard University to the Overseers on the State of the University for the Academic Year ...
Author: Harvard UniversityThe Annual Report of the President of Harvard University to the Overseers on the State of the University for the Academic Year ...
Author: Harvard UniversityAnnual reports of the president and treasurer of Harvard college
Author: Annual Reports of the President and Treasurer of Harvard College
Author: Harvard UniversityConceding Composition
Author: Ryan SkinnellPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607325055
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
First-year composition became the most common course in American higher education not because it could “fix” underprepared student writers, but because it has historically served significant institutional interests. That is, it can be “conceded” in multiple ways to help institutions solve political, promotional, and financial problems. Conceding Composition is a wide-ranging historical examination of composition’s evolving institutional value in American higher education over the course of nearly a century. Based on extensive archival research conducted at six American universities and using the specific cases of institutional mission, regional accreditation, and federal funding, this study demonstrates that administrators and faculty have introduced, reformed, maintained, threatened, or eliminated composition as part of negotiations related to nondisciplinary institutional exigencies. Viewing composition from this perspective, author Ryan Skinnell raises new questions about why composition exists in the university, how it exists, and how teachers and scholars might productively reconceive first-year composition in light of its institutional functions. The book considers the rhetorical, political, organizational, institutional, and promotional options conceding composition opened up for institutions of higher education and considers what the first-year course and the discipline might look like with composition’s transience reimagined not as a barrier but as a consummate institutional value.
Reconstructing the Campus
Author: Michael David CohenPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081393317X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
The Civil War transformed American life. Not only did thousands of men die on battlefields and millions of slaves become free; cultural institutions reshaped themselves in the context of the war and its aftermath. The first book to examine the Civil War's immediate and long-term impact on higher education, Reconstructing the Campus begins by tracing college communities' responses to the secession crisis and the outbreak of war. Students made supplies for the armies or left campus to fight. Professors joined the war effort or struggled to keep colleges open. The Union and Confederacy even took over some campuses for military use. Then moving beyond 1865, the book explores the war's long-term effects on colleges. Michael David Cohen argues that the Civil War and the political and social conditions the war created prompted major reforms, including the establishment of a new federal role in education. Reminded by the war of the importance of a well-trained military, Congress began providing resources to colleges that offered military courses and other practical curricula. Congress also, as part of a general expansion of the federal bureaucracy that accompanied the war, created the Department of Education to collect and publish data on education. For the first time, the U.S. government both influenced curricula and monitored institutions. The war posed special challenges to Southern colleges. Often bereft of students and sometimes physically damaged, they needed to rebuild. Some took the opportunity to redesign themselves into the first Southern universities. They also admitted new types of students, including the poor, women, and, sometimes, formerly enslaved blacks. Thus, while the Civil War did great harm, it also stimulated growth, helping, especially in the South, to create our modern system of higher education.