In this Book
- Pedagogues and Protesters: The Harvard College Student Diary of Stephen Peabody, 1767-1768
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University of Massachusetts Press
On April 4, 1768, about one hundred angry Harvard College undergraduates, well over half the student body, left school and went home, in protest against new rules about class preparation. Their action constituted the largest student strike at any colonial American college. Many contemporaries found the cause trivial and the students' decision inexplicable, but in the undergraduates' own minds it was the culmination of months of tensions with the faculty.
Pedagogues and Protesters recounts the year in daily journal entries by Stephen Peabody, a member of the class of 1769. The best surviving account of colonial college life, Peabody's journal documents relationships among students, faculty members, and administrators, as well as the author's relationships with other segments of Massachusetts society. To a full transcription of the entries, Conrad Edick Wright adds detailed annotation and an introduction that focuses on the journal's revealing account of daily life at America's oldest college.
Published in association with Massachusetts Historical Society
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. xi-lxiv
- Short Titles of Works Frequently Cited
- pp. lxv-lxxii
- August 1767
- pp. 46-60
- September 1767
- pp. 61-77
- October 1767
- pp. 78-95
- November 1767
- pp. 96-111
- December 1767
- pp. 112-126
- January 1768
- pp. 127-141
- February 1768
- pp. 142-155
- March 1768
- pp. 156-174
- April 1768
- pp. 175-195
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 227-228
- About the Author
- pp. 252-253