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A chapter in American education : Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1824-1924

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AMERICAN EDUCATION that the Institute offered a useful training to the “sons of fanners” who might apply to it. However,…
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A CHAPTER IN academic colleges is by no means certain. Eaton, whose mind ranged far beyond that of most of his…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION to the pain occasioned by their attitude. Though this attitude lingers in a few institu- tions which have…
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A CHAPTER IN challenge his conception of the college in its relation to life and learning. Though it is possible-…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION provide them with the knowledge of literature and the polish of manner essential to profes- sional…
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A CHAPTER I N what Germany became in the succeeding period. At times nearly half of those en- rolled were college graduates…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION the need of research, it was natural that its alumni-often college graduates-should have been the fist to…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION history of the continent. In 1850 the major- ity of the naturalists and engineers who were teachers or…
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CHAPTER I1 CURRICULA AND TRADITIONS ONE of the most fascinating studies in the realm of scholarship is the evolution of the…
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A CHAPTER IN the preparation advocated by the senior pro- fessor. Though the requirements emphasiz- ing the necessity of…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION curriculum of the Preparation Branch was an elementary duplicate of that leading to a degree. A review…
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A CHAPTER I N nected with the development of agriculture. Since I have already referred to the character of the courses in…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION sented Eaton’s contribution to the curriculum of the American college. The subjects listed in the last…
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A CHAPTER IN Joseph Henry, the standard must have been reasonably high. Moreover, regarding the importance of research the…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION experiments, and since theory was almost in- variably based upon generalizations drawn from practice,…
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A CHAPTER IN “sport” he was persistently hostile. “Cor- poral exercise,” he admitted, was “not only necessary for the health…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION “corrupted” by the customs of the Old World, there are probably a few benighted educators who, even to-…
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A CHAPTER IN girls-it embraces little else in most cases than a room or yard, provided with a few of the commoner forms of…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION ing is especially called for in the education of professional technists, who, besides needing the…
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A CHAPTER I N In preparation for the task he analyzed the curricula of the leading institutions of France and Germany, from…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION the graphic, vocal, and gymnastic “arts.” Greene’s greatest contribution to the theory of secondary…
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A CHAPTER IN school of agriculture might well be considered, he eliminated them because “as a matter of expediency” they…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION to offer a system of general disciplinary cul- ture-scientific, literary, philosophic, artistic -prior to…
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A CHAPTER IN pose of the Institute, according to him, was the prevalent idea that its object was dis- tinctly vocational and…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION etc,, to the architect, engineer, and other technists. It is a natural question, and one not unfrequently…
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