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A chapter in American education : Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1824-1924
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A CHAPTER IN AMERICAN EDUCATION BEN'SSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE 1sIL4-19aL
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BY RAY PALMER BAKER ENGINEERING EDUCATION A HISTORY OF ENGLISH-CANADtUP LITERATURE TO THE CONFEDW- ATION Its Relation to…
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A CHAPTER IN AMERICAN EDUCATION RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE 18%-1924 BY RAY PALMER BAKER, PH.D. PBOF~BIOB OP mQLISH…
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COPTRIQHT, 1944, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Printed in the United States of America -
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PROLOGUE IN the beginning I planned this sketch- for it is little more-as a slight memorial of the hundredth anniversary of…
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PROLOGUE Few historians are aware that the traditions fostered by the Institute had become so gen- erally recognized by 1850…
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PROLOGUE table and animal physiology. Among others who were to lend their aid were Ormsby McKnight Mitchell, professor of…
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PROLOGUE ulna muter. Nor have I attempted to trace the careers of the students-& or seven thousand in all-who, in the…
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BAQ1 CONTENTS PROLOGUE . . . . . . . . . v I . ORIGINSAND Aars . . . . . . . 8 11 . CURRICULA AND TRADITIONS . . . . 27…
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CHAPTER I ORIGINS AND AIMS IN the history of education in the United States there have been two outstanding events-the…
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A CHAPTER I N fessional study; and, for those who had al- ready enjoyed a liberal education, it provided many of the…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION comprehensive History of Rensselaer Poly- technic Institute, the Gardiner Lyceum, which survived for a…
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A CHAPTER I N of the Institute who had been trained in the disciplines which these gentlemen had ad- vocated. Though their…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION he had in view. What he planned was an institution to provide teachers to instruct “the sons and…
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A CHAPTER IN As Patroon of Rensselaerwick, he was naturally interested in the progress of the three counties into which it…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION gain” that they were seldom disturbed by the stings of intellectual ambition. At any rate, when the…
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A CHAPTER I N he impress his generation as especially virile or prophetic. As his portrait indicates, he seems to have been…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION juniors and by all but four of the sophomores and freshmen. So popular were these lec- tures that the…
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A CHAPTER IN science in the United States. Though his botanical nomenclature has often been modi- fied, the value of his…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION young men. The inclusion of “domestic economy” in the list of subjects to which the natural sciences were…
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A CHAPTER IN sible to judge from the records which have been preserved, his influence was due to his knowledge of botany and…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION issued her Botanical Catechism. Ten years afterward Almira Lincoln, a sister of Emma Willard, published…
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A CHAPTER I N be useful to me.” “Accordingly,” she con- fided naively in a letter to one of her friends, “I packed up all as…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION examination in “practical mathematics” for a class of eight. As late as this, ten years after the…
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A CHAPTER IN cultural College, founded in 1857, by almost thirty-five years. Because of this fact, its methods are…
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