American College and University: A History

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I N D E X Abbott, Jacob, 112, 122-4 Abbott, Lyman,356 academic dress,408 academic freedom: at colonial Harvard, 28; at University of Virginia, 126; and university movement, 245; development of, 410-16; German influence, 412-13; areas of friction, 413-14; key cases, 414; principles of tenure, 415; founding of A.A.U.P., 415-16; advances for students, 441; Lafayette's chair of civil rights, 454; and University of Chicago motto, 481; challenged after World War II, 484; see also elective principle Academic Mind, The,484 academic standards: see standards academic tenure, 415 academies: and Lafayette trustees , 46; need for, 48; and elevating academy subjects to college level, 114; Mount Vernon School, 122; and benefactors, 180; functions of, 216; as gymnasia for Syracuse, 271; before Civil War, 281; preparatory departments in colleges, 281-2; accept girls, 309-10, 311; eastern boys' schools, 315; Pres. Harper and Pres. Jordan on, 443; and collegiate acceleration, 466 acceleration of college course, 446-8,45$, 492-3 accreditation, 438 Adams, Charles Francis,243 Adams, Charles Francis, Jr., 95 Adams, Charles Kendall,234 Adams, Henry,65 Adams, Henry C., 338 Adams, Herbert Baxter,338 Adams, Jasper,48 Adams, John, 39 Adams, John Quincy, in, 201 Addams, Jane, 368 administration of higher education , 160-1, 176, 417-39; see also faculty; financing; governing boards; presidents admissions director, 435 admissions requirements, 25, 19, 38, 121, 260,267,282-5, 295» 434» 436-8,473-4, 476, 487 advanced placement, 493 aesthetics, 399 affiliation movement: see federation Agassiz, Elizabeth Gary, 320 Agassiz, Louis, 231-2, 248, 344 Age of Reason,275 agrarian myth, 95,242 agricultural chemistry, 123,262 Agricultural College of Pennsylvania , 249 agricultural education, 230-1, 239, 247-9, 255-63, 268;see also landgrant colleges agricultural experiment stations, 261 Agriculture and Mechanical College of Texas, 253, 261 Agriculture and Mechanical (A and M) colleges: see land-grant colleges; and by name agronomy, 262 Index 528 Alabama, University of, 338 Alexandrian, 138 Allegheny College, 56-7, 66, 194 Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, 144 Aluminum Company of America , 467 alumni: and faculty, 157, 408; and governing boards, 161, 174; and financial support of colleges, 189, 424; and athletics, 383-4, 392; after Civil War, 428-30; alumni trustee movement, 4289 ; Pres. Porter on, 429; the cult of the alumni,429-30; compared with stockholders, 439; after World War II,489 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 406 American Assembly,484 American Association for the Advancement of Science, 406 American Association of University Professors, 415-16 American Baptist Education Society , 349 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 7* American Chemical Society, 406 American Economic Association, 406 American Education Society, 183 American Historical Association, 406 American history, 285 American Institute of 1770, 137 American Journal of Mathematics , The,405 American Journal of Science and Arts, The, 131,223 American literature, 143-4, 47° American Mathematical Society, 406 American Philological Association , 406 American Philosophical Society, 42,406 American Revolution, effect of, '3»33-43, 275, 308-9 American studies,470 American Whig Society, 137 American Women's Education Association, 312 Ames, JamesBarr, 291 Amherst College: founded, 55; and sectarianism, 68; Congregational auspices, 70; revivalism, 82; H. W. Beecher on, 93; rebellion , 98; Jacob Abbott, 112, 122-4; Pres. Humphrey and Pres. Stearns, 139, 148; fraternities , 144-5, H8 ; antisecret society movement, 148; and athletics , 151, 153-4, 391 * Samuel Williston, 179; and American Education Society, 183; and Edward Hitchcock, 224, 391; student scientific society, 227; elective principle, 306; curriculum as model for eastern women's colleges, 318; Sophia Smith, 318; and coeducation, 321; liberal arts, 324; student government, 369; E. P. Harris, 409; Pres. Gates, 421; and general education, 455-6; after World War II, 492; New College proposed, 493-4 anatomy, 125, 400 Anderson, Martin Brewer, 169 Andover Theological Seminary, 72-3 Andrews, E. Benjamin, 414 Andrews, Israel Ward,240 Angell, James B., 170, 243,245, 269, 270, 279-80, 329, 348, 359, 421 animal husbandry,262 Annapolis, 389 anti-Catholicism, 83 anti-intellectualism: and religion, u; Anne Hutchins on, 19; and Harvard, 19, 65; frontier materialism , 20; and intellectual 529 Index anti-intellectualism: (cont.) prospects of colleges, 54; democratic impulse to, 63-4; and indifference to learning, 64-5; at Yale, 65; and Theodore Roosevelt , 65; and collegiate way, 86-134; and Yale Report of 1828, 134-5;m Jacksonian era in Illinois, 219; economic opportunity as source of, 219-20...