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

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A CHAPTER I N inent place in the educational system of every polytechnic institution.’’ As I have explained, Greene had…
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AMERICAN ED1 CATIOP views as modified by conditions at the time when it was made. In the leadership of both Eaton and…
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A CHAPTER IN ing with the traditions of the Institute, the curriculum in civil engineering had been dis- tinctly general in…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION ress has depended no less upon the efforts of the alumni. While they have rallied gener- ously to the…
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CHAPTER I11 THE NATURAL SCIENCES NOT long ago an eminent scholar referred to the development of the Institute as an…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION these forces before they could be effectively utilized which made Rensselaer for three decades the…
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A CHAPTER I N intimated, Eaton had published treatises, manuals, exercises, and dictionaries dealing with various aspects of…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION State Geological Survey after the common- wealth had been admitted to the Union, acted as botanist on the…
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A CHAPTER I N Note Book, published in 1822, emphasizes his interest in the biological sciences, the charac- ter of this…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION appointed chief of the agricultural section. In the next decade he issued four reports, the first dealing…
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A CHAPTER IN to make a survey of Washington County, the results being incorporated in the Transac- tions of 1848-49.…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION have thus been realized in the activities of the national bureaus which are the le- gitimate descendants…
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A CHAPTER IN tion of the ideas which Rensselaer men carried beyond the Mississippi. In connec- tion with the Iowa State…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION bles or pruning trees on “well cultivated farms” in the neighborhood. The interrelation of the natural…
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A CHAPTER I N his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had been clergymen, graduates of Yale, he was naturally sent to…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION his “shopy’ in the two houses which he was to make famous. Born at a fortunate mo- ment and called to a…
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A CHAPTER IN to employ because of lack of apparatus. Of his work at Johns Hopkins little need be said. While there he…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION Tall and ascetic in appearance, the founder and first president of the American Physical Society, with an…
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A CHAPTER IN try before 1875, their contributions to the New Learning were highly significant. Dur- ing the second and third…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION circumstances-especially as Eaton had given, before 1828, thirty courses, each con- taining at least six…
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A CHAPTER IN them stood out with considerable distinct- ness-James Curtis Booth (’31) and Eben Norton Horsford (’38), whose…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION studies of nickel, which he introduced into the coinage of the United States, of cobalt, of gold, and of…
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A CHAPTER I N to the useful arts, he induced Abbott Lawrence to establish a school devoted to analytical and practical…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION should be women, he reflected two of the cherished ideals of the Institute. I n another respect, also, he…
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A CHAPTER I N first illustrations of organic remains, have been supplemented by nearly five hundred studies written by…
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