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Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 24
death of, 154
early efforts with professionalization of science, 62, 64, 67
evolution debates with Rogers, 49–55, 131, 172n52
Harvard and, 156
land-grant funds and, 111–13
Lawrence Scientific School and, 80, 83, 134
Museum of Comparative Zoology and, 92–93, 110, 113–16, 172
National Academy of Sciences and, 107, 109
Alexander, Stephen, 108
Allen, Zachariah, 84
American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Jacob Bigelow and, 127
evolution debates at, 51–52
Lazzaroni and, 109
MIT and, 98
as model for American Association for the Advancement of Science, 58
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 109, 154
Rogers elected president of, 151. See also Association of American Geologists
Association of American Geologists and Naturalists
American Journal of Science, 72
American Medical Association, 12
American Philosophical Society, 3, 12, 24, 58
American Social Science Association, 106–7
Amherst College, 58
Andrew, John A.: land-grant funds and, 111–16
MIT incorporation and, 99–100
selected Rogers for Massachusetts state appointment, 102, 104
Appalachian Mountains: Rogers’s geological research on, 42–44, 59–60, 63
Virginia politics and, 23
Ann Arbor, MI, 88
Association of American Geologists, 58. See also American Association for the Advancement of Science;
Association of American Geologists and Naturalists
Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, 24, 106
name changes to and expansion of, 59–62
Rogers’s mountain chain formation theory and, 43. See also American Association for the Advancement of Science
Association of American Geologists
Atkinson, Edward: technological institutes and, 136
views on coeducation at MIT, 142–43
Atkinson, William P.: appointment to MIT faculty, 121
reception of MIT and, 127–30, 151
Atlantic Monthly: Charles W. Eliot’s “New Education” described in, 134
coeducation at MIT discussed in, 142
T. W. Higginson on education in, 126
Walker-Shaler debates over technological institutes in, 156
Bache, Alexander Dallas: American Association for the Advancement of Science controversies, 65–70
death of, 154
Franklin Institute and, 34
higher education views of, 88
National Academy of Sciences and, 107–9, 150
offers position to Rogers, 22
United States Coast Survey and, 37, 58
education and land use policy of, 89
Samuel Kneeland, Jr.’s proposal for use of, 90–91
MIT construction on, 121–23
Rogers’s conservatory proposal for use of, 91–93
Rogers’s MIT proposal for use of, 93–100
Bacon, Francis, 32
William Maclure and, 33
Rogers’s approach to, 33, 39, 55, 153
Baird, Spencer, 108–9
Baltimore, MD, 1
Rogers’s Maryland Institute appointment in, 13–16
Banks, Nathaniel P., 89
Bartlett, W. H. C., 69
Barton, Benjamin Smith, 4
Berthier, Pierre, 35
reception of MIT and, 127–30, 132, 151
Blake, William P., 97
Blythe, Hannah, 4–5
Bocher, Ferdinand, 121
Bond, George P., 108
Bonnycastle, Charles, 75
Bigelow and, 127
MIT location and first classes in, 121, 147
Navy Yard and practical instruction in, 144
philanthropy and, 81, 83, 110, 117, 142
professional meetings in, 62, 109
Rogers’s arrival in, 89
Rogers’s early educational reform proposals for philanthropists in, 86
Rogers’s health in, 124
Rogers’s Massachusetts state appointment in, 103, 105
Savage family of, 31
societies of, 151
University of Massachusetts system and, 116. See also Back Bay
Boston Board of Trade, 98
Boston Society of Natural History: conservatory proposals and, 90, 92
Rogers-Agassiz evolution debates at, 52, 55
Rogers elected president of, 151
support for MIT and, 98
women and membership at, 141
Bouve, Thomas T., 141
Boyd, George W., 42,
Brainerd, Jehu, 65
Brande, William Thomas, 73–74
Brandes, Rudolph, 36
British Association for the Advancement of Science, 58–59, 62–63
British Copley Medal of the Royal Society, 27, 74
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 88
Brown University: and Francis Wayland’s Report of 1850, 84–85
reform at, 86
Browne, Peter, 37–38
Brush, George J., 150
Bucholz, Christian Friedrich, 36
Bullock, A. H., 104
Byrd, Charles, 19
Cambridge, MA, xi
Louis Agassiz’s MIT-Harvard merger proposal and, 115
Jacob Bigelow and, 127
Charles W. Eliot and, 146, 155
Asa Gray and, 50–51
Lazzaroni in, 67
Mount Auburn Cemetery in, 157
Rogers and the Lawrence School in, 83
supporters of MIT in, 110
Cambridge Science Club, 51
Cambridge University, 27
Carlisle, PA, 12
Carlton, W. T., 121
Centennial Exhibition of 1876, 144
Central Pacific Railroads, 150
Chadbourne, Paul Ansel, 126
Charles River, xi
Charleston, SC, 9–10
Charlottesville, VA: Rogers and science instruction in, 74
Rogers and Virginia politics in, 29–31
Rogers’s arrival in, 26
student discipline and, 27–29
James Joseph Sylvester controversy in, 26–27
Francis Wayland visits Rogers in, 85
Chemical Society of Philadelphia, 3
Church of England, 7
Cincinnati College, 12
Citadel, 88
Civil War: land-grant funds and, 111
MIT’s founding and, 101–2
National Academy of Sciences and, 107
Rogers’s research during, 105, 149
Clarke, Edward, 140
advocates of, 125–27
William P. Atkinson on, 128–29
Jacob Bigelow on, 127–28
Brown University reforms of, 84–85
College of William and Mary and, 1, 73–74
expansion of science and, 71–73, 79
Henry Darwin Rogers on, 12
reaction to Bigelow-Atkinson addresses on, 129–30
Rogers’s education in, 9
Rogers’s Maryland Institute appointment and, 14–15
Rogers’s “School of Arts” response to, 77–79
Rogers’s view of MIT and, 130–32
Benjamin Rush’s views on, 4
separate schools and, 80, 134–35
traditional college curriculum and, 2, 5, 14
University of Virginia and, 74–76
Yale Report of 1828 and, 76–77
Cocke, John Hartwell, 26
coeducation: MIT and, 140–43
Rogers’s “Polytechnic School” proposal and, 82
College of Philadelphia, 3–4
College of William and Mary, x, xv
Rogers family and, 6–13
Rogers’s approach to science instruction at, 73–74, 76
Rogers’s faculty appointment at, 16
Rogers’s tenure at, 17–22, 138
Columbia, SC, 22
Columbia University, 5, 27, 73
Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Science, 58
Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, 88–89, 96, 186n41–42
Continental Monthly, 135
Cooke, Josiah, 107
Cooper, Thomas, 20
Cooper Union, 88
Cornell University: applied science at, 136
John D. Runkle and, 144
Robert Thurston and, 155
Andrew D. White and, 88
Corps of Engineers, 150
Crop, Charles R., 139
Cuvier, Georges, 50
Dabney, John A., 19
Dartmouth College, 73
Darwin, Charles, xii
death of, 153–54
Origin, 50–51
Rogers-Agassiz evolution debates and, 52–55
Rogers meets with, 62
Darwin, Erasmus, 50
Darwinism, 55, 106, 115. See also Charles Darwin
Day, Jeremiah, 76–77
De la Beche, Henry, 45, 63, 75
de Tocqueville, Alexis, 33
Department of Interior, 150
Dewey, Chester, 69
Draper, John William, 108
Dublin, Ireland, 3
Eaton, Amos: antebellum geology and, 33–34, 36, 37
as Benjamin Silliman’s student, 72
Rensselaer School and, 87
Ecole Centrale de Arts et Manufactures, 88–89, 96
Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees, 121
Ecole Polytechnique, 86, 88–89
Edinburgh, Scotland, 120
Eliot, Charles W.: Eliot’s MIT-Harvard merger proposal, 146–48
“New Education” views of, 134–35
at Paris Expo, 105
Rogers’s influence on, 155
Rogers’s recruitment of, 121–22
separate schools and, 80
Erie Canal, 34
Farmer’s Register, 34–36
Featherstonhaugh, George, 34, 37
Federal Gazette, 4
Felton, Cornelius C., 83
Fisher, George Park, 126
Flaubert, Gustave, 105
Florentine Academy, 67. See also Lazzaroni
Floyd, John, 37
Franklin Institute, 88
James Blythe Rogers and, 12
early professionalization of science and, 58
influence on Maryland Institute, 13
Thomas P. Jones and, 8
Philadelphia geologists at, 34
Rogers visits, 15
Rogers’s “School of Arts” proposal and, 77–79
Gardiner Lyceum, 88
Garfield, James A., 152
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne, 50
Geological Society of London, 61
Geological Society of Pennsylvania, 37
Geological Survey of Virginia, x
external interest in, 37–38
Thomas Ridgeway and Jed Hotchkiss use of, 148–49
Rogers’s appeal for, 38–39
Rogers’s approach to, 39–45, 115, 153
Rogers’s ideas about higher education and, 66, 72, 81–82, 131
Virginia politics and, 22–25
Rogers’s professionalization efforts and, 59–62, 106
role in Rogers-Agas-siz evolution debates, 55
Girard College, 145
Gray, Asa: evolution debates with Agassiz, 50–51
initial reception of Darwinism and, 55
National Academy of Sciences and, 108–109
Rogers’s death and, 153–154
Great Chain of Being, 50
Greene, Benjamin, 87
Grotthus-Draper Law, 108
Hall, G. Stanley, 140
Hare, Robert, 8
Harper’s Monthly, 135
Harvard University, xii, xv, 7
Louis Agassiz and, 49, 51, 53, 55
Louis Agassiz’s MIT-Harvard merger proposal, 111–116
antebellum college reform and, 72, 73
Jacob Bigelow and, 127
George Brush of, 150
Edward C. Clarke of, 140
Charles W. Eliot’s MIT-Harvard merger proposal, 146–148
enrollments and graduation rates at Lawrence Scientific School at, 137–138
land-grant funds and, 111–116
Ralph Huntington and, 110
Lawrence Scientific School at, 67, 71, 80, 83–84, 134–135
Abbot Lawrence’s gift to, 83–84
medical school of, 5
Museum of Comparative Zoology at, 92
Benjamin Peirce of, 98
Progressive era MIT-Harvard merger proposals, 157
Rogers’s influence on, 155
Henry Darwin Rogers and, 21
Rogers’s views of, 81, 89, 113, 131
John D. Runkle’s education at, 121
Walker-Shaler debates and, 156
William P. Atkinson and, 127
Harvard Bridge, xi
Hatchell, Charles, 36
Haynes, A. A., 102
Henry, Joseph: death of, 154
Lazzaroni and, 67
National Academy of Sciences and, 107–109, 149–150
recommends Rogers for a professorship at University of Virginia, 25–26
Hibernian Society, 6
Higginson, T. W. , 126
Hill, Thomas, 114–115
Holmes, George Frederick, 8
Hooker, Joseph, 50
Hotchkiss, Jed, 149
Hovey, Marian, 142–143
Howison, George, 121
Humboldt, Alexander von, 32, 55
Humboldtian science: Rogers’s approach to, 32–33, 39, 55
Huntington, Ralph, 110
Hutton, James, 44
Illinois University, 144
James, William, 114
Jamestown, VA, 9
Jarves, James Jackson, 126
Jefferson, Thomas, xi
College of William and Mary and, 7
correspondence with Patrick Kerr Rogers, 6, 10
slavery issue and, 18
University of Virginia and, 26, 29, 31, 38
Jefferson Medical College, 13
Johns Hopkins University, xii, 27, 155
Jones, Thomas P., 8
Journal of Industrial Science and Art, 94
Kanawha Canal Company, 23
Karlsruhe Technical Academy, 88, 121
Kew Gardens, 50
Kingsley, James, 76–77
Kneeland, Samuel, 90–93
Kraitzir, Charles, 27
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste, 50
Lawrence, Abbot, 83
Lawrence Scientific School (Harvard): competition with MIT over land-grant funds, 111–116
Charles W. Eliot’s impressions of, 80, 134–135
Charles W. Eliot’s MIT-Harvard proposal, 146–148;
enrollments and graduate rates of, 137–138
founding and early years of, 67, 83
Benjamin Peirce and, 98
John D. Runkle’s education at, 121
Rogers’s perceptions of, 81, 131
American Association for the Advancement of Science and, 67–70
National Academy of Sciences and, 107–109, 149
proposal for university in Albany by, 88
LeConte, John, 156
LeConte, Joseph, 134
Leland, Charles G., 135
Lieber, Francis, 22
Liebig, Justus, 61
Lincoln, Abraham, 107
Loomis, Elias, 108
Lovering, Joseph, 107
Lowell, John A., Jr., 81–83
Lowell, MA, 122
Lowell Institute, 81–82
Association of American Geologists and Naturalists and, 60
Rogers’s geological research and, 63
Lyman, Theodore, 108
Maclure, William, 33–34
Mahan, Dennis Hart, 86
Manufacturer and Builder, 133–34
Marcou, Jules, 54–55
Marsh, O. C., 150
Maryland Institute: James Blythe Rogers and, 12
Rogers’s departure from, 17
Rogers’s lectureship at and contributions to, 1–2, 13–16
Maryland Medico-Chirurgical Society, 6
Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics’ Association, 98, 139
Massachusetts Conservatory of Art and Science, 90
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 92
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Act of Incorporation, 100
Louis Agassiz’s MIT-Harvard merger proposals, 112–116
Bigelow-Atkinson addresses and the reception of, 127–132
Civil War and incorporation of, 101–102
coeducation and, 140–143
contemporary standing of, xi
Charles W. Eliot’s MIT-Harvard merger proposals, 146–148
enrollments and graduation rates at, 137–138
government established for, 110
Journal of Industrial Science and Art, 94
Morrill Act of 1862 (Land-Grant Act) and, 111–116, 117, 155
Museum of Industrial Art and Science, 94–95
place of in relation to European models of higher education, xii
Progressive era proposals for MIT-Harvard merger, 157
Rogers elected president of, 110, 152
Rogers’s approach to science and, xi, 37, 55, 154–155
Rogers’s efforts rallying support for the incorporation of, 93–99
Rogers’s initial fundraising for, 109–110, 117
Rogers’s Objects and Plan of, 93–97, 99–100, 110, 116–117, 122–123, 131, 135
Rogers’s recruitment of faculty for, 120–123
Rogers’s Scope and Plan of, 117, 119–120, 122–123, 131
Runkle appointed president of, 124
Russian influences on, 144–146
Emma Savage and, 157
School of Industrial Science and Art, 95–96, 110, 117–123
School of Mechanic Arts, 145–146
scientific community and reception of, 132–136, 155–156
Society of Arts, 94, 110–113, 119
student culture at, 138–140
Francis Amasa Walker selected as president of, 152
Women’s Laboratory at MIT, 141–143
Mathematical Monthly, 121
McCosh, John, 155
Mechanics Institute, 97
Middlebury College, 73
Military Rebellion of 1836 (University of Virginia), 27–29
Mitchel, Ormsby M., 69
Monroe, James, 7
Morrill, Justin, 111
Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862, 111–17, 155
Morse, Edward S., 55
Mount Auburn Cemetery, 157
Museum of Comparative Zoology, xv
Agassiz and, 83
Lazzaroni and, 67
Massachusetts state support for, 92–93
Rogers’s conception of MIT and, 110, 113–16
Nashville, TN, 9
National Academy of Sciences, 107–9, 149–51
National Institution for the Promotion of Science, 24
Naturphilosophie, 50
Newberry, J. S., 108–9
Newcomb, Simon, 150
New England Society, 98
New Haven, CT, 156
New Orleans, LA, 9–10
Newport, RI, 124
New York Times, 68
New York University, 108
North American Review, 129–30
Norwich Academy, 88
Ohio Geological Survey, 108
Oken, Lorenz, 50
Olivier, James E., 97
OpenCourseWare, xi
Patterson, Robert, 6
Peirce, Benjamin: American Association for the Advancement of Science and, 64
death of, 154
Lawrence Scientific School and, 121
Lazzaroni and, 67
National Academy of Sciences and, 109
supporter of Rogers’s MIT plan, 98
Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, 4
Philadelphia Medical College, 12
Polytechnic College of Pennsylvania, 88
Porter, Noah, 125–26
Princeton University: Stephen Alexander of, 108
Joseph Henry of, 25
Charles G. Leland and, 135
John McCosh and, 155
science at, 5
Providence Journal, 68
Redfield, William C., 62
Rensselaer, Stephen Van, 87
Rice, Thomas, 90,
Richmond, VA, x
College of William and Mary considers moving to, 11
Rogers’s Virginia Geological Survey and, 24, 61–62
Edmund Ruffin and, 34
as state capitol, 7
Virginia Convention of 1829–1830 at, 20
Ridgeway, Thomas, 149
Ritchie, James, 97
Rochester, NY, 69
Rogers, Henry Darwin: birth of, 5
Boston and, 81
career summary of, 12
education-related efforts with William Barton Rogers, 13–15
efforts in professionalization of science, 58–64, 69, 149
Harvard and, 21
role in Rogers-Agassiz evolution debates, 52
scientific research with William Barton Rogers, 25, 42–44, 45–46
state surveys and, 24
Rogers, James Blythe: in Baltimore, 10
birth of, 5
College of William and Mary and, 6
death of, 13
Rogers, Patrick Kerr, 2–3
appointment to faculty of and life at College of William and Mary, 6, 9–11
Hannah Blythe and, 4–5
correspondence with William Barton Rogers, 14–15
death of, 16
marriage of, 5
medical practice of, 5
summary of careers of sons, 11–13
at University of Pennsylvania, 3–4
Williamsburg, and, 7–8
Rogers, Robert Empie: birth of, 6
career summary of, 12–13
efforts with professionaliza-tion of science, 58–59, 149
in Philadelphia and William Barton Rogers’s health, 124
research with William Barton Rogers, 61
southern life and culture and, 21, 28
views on engineering and West Point, 86
views on William Barton Rogers’s teaching, 74
Rogers, William Barton: address at Williams College by, 48–49
Louis Agassiz’s MIT-Harvard merger proposal and, 112–16
American Association for the Advancement of Science and, 62–70
American Social Science Association and, 106–7
antebellum higher education reform and, 71–72, 79–81, 86–89
Association of American Geologists and Naturalists and, 59–62
Baconian-ism and, 33, 39, 55, 153
birth of, 5
book publications of, 46–48
Civil War and, 101–2
coeducation and, 140–43
conservatory proposal and, 91–93
contributions to Maryland Institute of, 13–16
differences in approach to science between Louis Agassiz and, 49
early efforts in the professionaliza-tion of science, 57–58
elected president of MIT, 110, 152
Charles W. Eliot’s MIT-Harvard merger proposal and, 146–48
establishes Latin-Grammar school, 1, 13
evolution debates between Louis Agassiz and, 49–56
final speech and death of, xi
geological nomenclature work with Henry Darwin Rogers, 42–43
Geological Survey of Virginia and, 39–42, 148–49
health of, 105–6, 123–24, 148–52
Humboldtianism and, 32–33, 39, 55
Ralph Huntington and, 110
influence of Maryland Institute on, 1–2
land-grant funds and, 111–17
Lazzaroni and, 67–70, 107–9, 149
marl research and, 34–37
marriage, 31
Massachusetts state appointment and, 102–4
MIT facilities and, 123
MIT Objects and Plan proposal and, 93–100
MIT’s Scope and Plan and, 117–20
MIT’s Society of Arts and, 110–11
mountain chain formation theory with Henry Darwin Rogers, 43–45
National Academy of Sciences and, 107–9, 149–51
natural philosophical work of Henry Darwin Rogers, 45–46
Paris Expo and, 104–6
politics of Geological Survey of Virginia and, 22–25, 37–39
“Polytechnic School” proposal and, 81–84
professorship and life at College of William and Mary, 18–26, 73–74
professorship and life at University of Virginia, 26–31, 74–76
professorship offered by College of William and Mary to, 16, 17–18
recruiting MIT faculty, 120–23
relationship between MIT and approach to science of, xi, 37
resignation and departure from University of Virginia, 30–31
Edmund Ruffin’s Farmer’s Register and, 34–36
Russian model of instruction and, 144–45
Emma Savage’s remarks on Rogers brothers and, 13
“School of Arts” proposal and, 77–79
social and intellectual developments during career of, xii
speaking ability of, x–xi
student years at College of William and Mary, 6–11
summary of career in educational reform, x, 154–57
summary of career in science, x, 153–54
view of museums and laboratories of, 48–49
views on MIT student population, 138–40
views on the reception of MIT, 130–32
Francis Wayland and, 84–85
Yale Report of 1828 and, 76–77
Rollins, John R., 102
Root, Elihu, 155–56
Ross, M. D., 99
Rowland, Henry A., 155
Roxbury, MA, 97
Royal Astronomical Society of London, 108
Royal Institution (England), 74
Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries of Copenhagen, 61
Runkle, John D.: as advocate of Russian system of instruction, 144–45
appointed president of MIT, 124
Charles W. Eliot’s MIT-Harvard merger proposal and, 146–48
as MIT professor, 121
views on coeducation, 141
Sanborn, Frank, 107
Saturday Club, 151
Savage, Emma, xiii
Boston social life and, 151
marriage of, 31
in Newport, 124
remarks on Rogers brothers, 13
Schelling, Friedrich, 50
School of Mines and Economic Geology (London), 88, 96, 120
Scientific American, 125, 132–33
Scudder, Horace E., 135
Scudder, Samuel H., 114
Seybert, Adam, 35
Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate, 54, 156
Sheffield Scientific School (Yale): Charles W. Eliot and, 134–35, 147
laboratory instruction at, 156, 178n24
Rogers and, 131
Silliman, Benjamin, 33, 60, 62, 72
Simms, William Gilmore, 7–8, 10
slavery, xiii, 4, 12, 18–27, 101, 164
Smith, John Augustine, 11
Smithsonian Institution, 25, 67, 108, 150
South Carolina College, 20–22
Summers, George, 23
Swallow, Ellen, 141–42
Sylvester, James Joseph, 26–28
Tappan, Henry, 88
Teachers’ Association (Massachusetts), 98
Thayer, Nathaniel, 141
Thayer, Sylvanus, 86
Thursday Evening Club, 151
Thurston, Robert H., 155
Torrey, John, 103
Tucker, Nathaniel Beverly, 8
Turner, Edward, 74
Tyler, John, 7
Union Pacific Railroad, 150
United States Coast Survey: Alexander Dallas Bache as director of, 22, 37, 65
geological profession and, 57–58
United States Naval Academy, 88
Universal Exposition of Paris (1867), 104–5
University of California, 134, 156
University of Glasgow, 12
University of Michigan, 88, 179
University of Mississippi, 8
University of Pennsylvania: Robert Hare at, 8
Patrick Kerr Rogers at, 3–6, 72
Rogers brothers and, 12–13, 21
University of Vermont, 73
College of William and Mary statement about, 73
George Frederick Holmes and, 8
Robert Empie Rogers and, 12–13
Rogers’s appointment and arrival at, 25, 26
Rogers’s courses and reform efforts at, 74–76, 77–79, 80–82
Patrick Kerr Rogers applies for position at, 6
Rogers’s departure from, 31
Rogers’s Elementary Treatise at, 46
Rogers’s tenure at, 18
student discipline at, 26–29, 138
Virginia politics and, 29–31
Francis Wayland visits Rogers at, 85
University of Wisconsin, 126
Virginia Convention of 1829, 20–21
Walker, Francis Amasa, ix
debates with Shaler over institutes of technology, 156
Washington, George, 7
Washington College Board of Surveying, 149
Washington, DC: Lazzaroni in, 67
Rogers at Smithsonian in, 25
Rogers’s presidency of National Academy of Sciences in, 150
Francis Amasa Walker and, 152
Watchman of the South, 26
Watson, William, 121
Webster, John White, 73–74
Werner, Abraham, 43–44
Wernerians, 44
West Point: W. H. C. Bartlett at, 69
William Thomas Brandes and, 73
founding and evolution of, 86–88
Rogers’s perception of, 131
Whitaker, Channing, 139
White, Andrew D., 88
White Mountains, 31
Williamsburg, VA: Rogers family in, 6–7
Rogers’s departure from, 26
Rogers’s professorship at William and Mary in, 17–22
Rogers’s student years in, 8–11
rural southern life and, 7–8
Williams College: antebellum college reform and, 73
Rogers’s address on scientific inquiry at, 48–49
Wilson, Henry, 107
Wissenschaft, xii
Wollaston, William Hyde, 46
Women’s Educational Association (Massachusetts), 141–43
Woodhouse, James, 3–4
Worcester Free Institute, 136
Wright, Frances, 21
Wyman, Jeffrey, 55
Yale University, xii
William P. Blake and, 97
higher education reform and, 76–77
laboratory instruction at, 156
Elias Loomis and, 108
New Haven scholars and, 125, 126
separate school at, 71, 80, 131, 147
Francis Amasa Walker and, 152. See also Sheffield Scientific School
Yale Report of 1828
Yale Report of 1828, 76–77
Noah Porter and, 125
reception of, 80
Francis Wayland’s views of, 84
Youmans, E. L., 130–31
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