Collegiate Republic: Cultivating an Ideal Society in Early America

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• 245 • Page numbers in italics indicate figures. Abbott, Sallucia, 74, 77, 79 abolitionists, 101, 171–72, 190, 192 academies: college’s fundraising and, 38–39; as competition for colleges, 40; development and curricula, 6–7, 33–34, 69–70, 204n19; as preparation for college, 7–8; professors’ view of, 60–61; as springboard to other teaching opportunities, 164–65; teachers mentioned, 47, 117, 126, 127–28, 163–64; transformed into colleges, 15–16. See also Ann Smith Academy; Athens Female Academy Africa: Maryland Colony in, 174–76, 177. See also Liberia African Americans. See free blacks; slaves African Free School (N.Y.C.), 165–66 alcohol. See students: misconduct and drinking ; taverns; temperance movement Alfred (slave in Ga.), 136 Alfred (slave in Va.), 186, 190–91 Allgor, Catherine, 210–11n58 alumni. See graduates American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions (ABCFM), 95 American Colonization Society (ACS): critique of, 101, 177; Liberia controlled by, 91, 167, 173–74; Liberia’s independence from, 175; Russwurm’s position with, 167–68, 169–71 Andover Theological Academy (Mass.), 137 index Ann Smith Academy (Lexington, Va.), 45, 61, 69, 81 Appleby, Joyce, 3, 203n5 Appleton, Elizabeth, 30–31 Appleton, Jesse, 28, 51, 66 Athens (Ga.): “college ladies,” 71; critique of slave’s behavior, 180; disinterest in local college, 83–84; growth of community , 111; religious revivals, 114, 115–16; sectarian alliances, 94–96, 114; Sunday School, 96; visitors, 88, 97–98; white buildings, 158. See also Franklin College; University of Georgia Athens Female Academy (Athens, Ga.), 88, 94–95, 96, 112 Baird, Mary Churchill, 140–41, 145 Baird, Spencer, 140–41, 145 Baptists, 26, 96, 111, 114 Baxter, Anne, 18, 28, 29, 32, 33, 38, 41, 44 Baxter, George: beliefs, 16–17, 39; fundraising by, 10, 15–16, 18–19, 28–39, 38–39, 40–44; reputation, 45–46; self-sacrifice, 33–34; trustees and, 32 Baxter sisters (George’s daughters), 33, 158, 163–64 Beecher, Catherine, 125, 146 Beecher, Harriet (later, Stowe), 145–47 Berea College (Ky.), 6–7 Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine): admission requirements, 50–51, 64; antitemperance behavior at, 100–101; ben- 246 • index growth of, 110–12; libraries, 27, 31, 32, 34; living spaces, 104–8, 152, 201; orderliness expected, 86; public scrutiny, 87–88; typical of early colleges, 85; whiteness, 158, 201. See also chapels; college servants Bush, Hannah: social advice and direction for, 76–77, 79; teaching experience, 78–80 Bush, John: family, 59; medical practice, 76, 80; query about attending Bowdoin, 49–50; requirements and preparation for admission, 50–51, 64, 67–68; social advice and direction for, 67–68, 73–74, 75, 78–79 “business of housekeeping,” 119–20, 143–46, 151–52 “business of instruction”: categorization skills in, 159–60; competition in, 198–99; graduates’ jobs in, 163–64; housekeeping combined with, 119–20, 146; males’ discomfort with, 129–31; moral order and regularity emphasized, 92–94; open to scrutiny, 87–88; profession of, 3, 5, 31–32, 200–202; prosperity of, 107–8; self-sacrifice for common good key to, 16–18, 22–23, 84; servants’ role in making time for, 184–85; trustees’ initiation of, 26–27; Wall Street business distinguished from, 39. See also college work Campbell, Angelical, 27 Carey, Dick (slave in Ga.), 89–90, 91, 92, 179 Carlisle (Pa.): college investments and expected returns for, 34; female academy, 69; liberality of residents, 21–22; taverns, 101; tensions over college, 35. See also Dickinson College Catholics, 176, 180 chapels: absent from University of Virginia, 103; mandatory attendance, 109–10; religious revival and, 115; role of, 86–87. See also Christianity Charlottesville (Va.): temperance cause in, 103. See also University of Virginia Cherokees, 95 Christianity: civic virtue linked to, 16–17; classics synthesized with, 64–65; efits from redirected passion of Parker Cleveland, 56–58; benefits touted, 75–76; charter, 25; colonizationist views and support from faculty, 168, 173, 174–75, 177–78; exclusions of, 159–61, 166; faculty homes, 49, 55, 105, 106; faculty wives’ freedom of intellectual pursuits, 148–49; feeding students, 55–56; first black graduate (see Russwurm, John Brown); graduates expected to support college, 35–36, 76; graduates mentioned, 9, 11, 58, 79, 80, 98, 156, 174; Greek and Latin professor (see Stowe, Calvin); as ideal space for scholars, 2; laboratory, 58, 76, 77; library, 27; location, 21; Longfellow as faculty member, 1; mathematics professors (see Cleaveland, Parker; Smyth, William); medical school of, 76; as model for republic, 4–5, 66–67; orderly buildings, 86; philosophy professor (see Upham...