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

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AMERICAN EDUCATION portance of these labors is emphasized by the fact that his old home in the Capitol City-the house in…
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A CHAPTER IN most eminent. Under Emmom, he was assistant in the Second Division. In 1836, he was appointed geologist for the…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION been called the “founder of American stratig- raphy,” the “father of invertebrate paleon- tology,” the “…
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A CHAPTER IN Michael Caleb Briggs (‘35), who had been associated with the Ohio State GeologicaI Survey, joined Rogers in…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, and Wis- consin. His thoughts were thus turned west- ward at an early date…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION schools cannot properly be omitted. Far in advance of their fellows, many of them, like Fay Edgerton (…
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CHAPTER IV THE LEARNED PROFESSIONS THE relation between the college and the professional school has long been a subject of…
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A CHAPTER IN Strange as it may appear, most of those who were attracted by the church in the nineteenth century were…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION Christians of a practical turn. If the task were worth the pains, it might not be impos- sible to trace…
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A CHAPTER IN ib development, left an indelible mark on the settlement of the West. With the record of the past that of the…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION have attracted more than forty young men who became physicians. An illuminating commentary upon the…
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A CHAPTER IN they have left the impress of their personali- ties. In chemistry especially, the list of col- leges in which…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION class was graduated, he was professor of botany and zoology. After 1848 he was professor of the theory…
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CHAPTER V THE NEW HUMANITIES THOUGH Rensselaer, after the reorganiza- tion of 1832, became in name a “classical” and “…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION nineteenth century would make no incon- siderable collection. Of their more preten- tious work, most is…
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A CHAPTER I N In journalism, on the other hand, their careers cannot be dismissed so lightly. At first the number who have…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION touched all the sciences, the Institute has always been closely related. Of necessity, the careers of…
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A CHAPTER IN sficient to indicate the extent of the au- dience reached by the graduates of the Institute in the nineteenth…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION of the Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology (1870-71). Leaving Haverford, he…
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A CHAPTER IN Williams may be said to have become an orientalist by choice, Fitz Edward Hall ('42) may be said to have…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION that connected with the Oxford Dictionary and the English Dialect Dictionary. In this curious combination…
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A CHAPTER IN whose careers I have been able to follow, over half became heads of academies. In such widely separated cities…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION superintendents of education, responsible for the cultural development of the common- wealth. Though they…
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CHAPTER VI THE PUBLIC SERVICES THE career of Mr. Hoover, Secretary of Commerce and an honorary graduate of the Institute,…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION dred years. It would be strange, therefore, if the records of its graduates in peace and in war should…
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