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

by Leslie,W. Bruce

• ISBN13: 9781412804585
• ISBN10: 1412804582
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-04-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Historians have dubbed the period from the Civil War to World War I as "the age of the university," suggesting that colleges, in contrast to universities, were static institutions out of touch with American society. In Gentlemen and Scholars 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 - Bucknell, Franklin and Marshall, Princeton, and Swarthmore. A new introduction to this classic reflects on his work in light of recent scholarship, especially that on southern universities, the American college in the international context, the experience of women, and liberal Protestantism's impact on the research university.

Author Biography

W. Bruce Leslie is professor of history at the State University of New York at Brockport.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Transaction Edition	xiii
Preface	xxvii
Acknowledgements	xxxi
Introduction	1	(10)
1 Four Colleges and Their Communities	11	(20)
PART ONE COLLEGES AND COMMUNITIES, 1865-1890
2 Rural Piety and Urban Wealth	31	(24)
3 When Professors Had Servants	55	(24)
4 "What Knowledge Is of Most Worth?"	79	(16)
5 Students as Gentlemen	95	(22)
PART TWO CONVERGENCE AND COSMOPOLITANISM, 1890-1917
6 Piety versus Prosperity in the Protestant College	117	(30)
7 Presidential Power and Academic Autonomy	147	(30)
8 Knowledge Fit for Protestant Gentlemen	177	(12)
9 "The Side Shows Have Swallowed Up the Circus"	189
PART THREE EMERGENCE OF THE MODERN AMERICAN COLLEGE
10 The Age of the College	213	(24)
11 The College in the Social Order	237	(14)
Conclusion	251	(10)
Bibliography	261	(17)
Index	278