The American College in the Nineteenth Century by Roger L. Geiger
L. At 1978; the end of the 1973; eighteenth American century, just eighteen colleges 1961; existed in Roger the 1977; United 1991; States, 1981; with an 1998; average 1988; enrollment of in fewer 1978; than seventy. One 2003; hundred years 2000; later, over 450 American 1979; colleges The and universities boasted enrollments 2000; up 2000; more 2004; than 1985; one hundredfold. 1998; The role of 1993; educational institutions in Roger the life of the nation Geiger had 1965; been 1993; utterly transformed.
As the the bridge College between American the two eras, in the nineteenth-century college has been among by the 1974; most controversial subjects in College the Geiger history of American higher 2001; education. 1977; While earlier 1960; historians by portrayed the "oldtime" college in as Roger an impediment to in modernization, later scholars affirmed 1986; the broad Century role of the Nineteenth colleges Nineteenth in Geiger the 1957; education of the American The people.
The American College L. in the Nineteenth 2006; Century 1975; combines Geiger the best recent scholarship 2003; with the an 1962; interpretive 1976; introduction 1992; to the provide 1976; a fresh by view American of the College development of Nineteenth American colleges. The 1955; contributors L. consider American these 1979; institutions within four 1956; new College contexts: 1973; first, 1967; the 1973; dramatic Roger transformation 1990; in Century the College college 1956; students' experience from oppressive discipline to relative by freedom; 1955; second, Century the College regional by variations 1987; among the developing American The colleges (for 1988; example, 2002; a South dominated Century by by state colleges, a The Midwest by the denominational Geiger schools); 1964; third, the revolution in the century's Roger third the quarter Roger as colleges 1963; became American multipurpose Geiger institutions; and 2003; fourth, 1991; universities 1991; that 1972; became dominant by 1988; the College end of Century the 1982; century, incorporating 2003; rather than 1993; displacing 1979; the colleges.
Innovative in its examination of in the 1963; nature Century and function of these American uniquely American institutions, Nineteenth The Century American 2000; College 1976; in the L. Nineteenth Century is a 1999; vital addition 1990; to 1979; the scholarship Geiger of 1959; the 1983; period.