Author: Meghan K. Roberts
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016-10-26
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 022638411X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Men of Letters, Men of Feeling -- 2. Working Together -- 3. Love, Proof, and Smallpox Inoculation -- 4. Enlightening Children -- 5. Organic Enlightenment -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
Author: Nehemiah Cleaveland
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-04-09
Total Pages: 1113
ISBN-13: 3385409322
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author: David R. Francis
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014-09-02
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 1625851413
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discover the spookiest stories behind this centuries-old college in Maine . . . photos included! Bowdoin College boasts two centuries in higher education, and that rich history is laden with curious tales and ghostly happenings. Eerie legends about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joshua Chamberlain, and other distinguished graduates are still whispered in the halls of their alma mater. A dungeon complete with skulls and skeletons hidden beneath Appleton Hall plays to society’s darkest fears about secret college societies. The many untimely deaths at Hubbard Hall lend credence to its haunted reputation. Misfortunes of Coleman Hall residents might have a connection with the building’s site atop the remnants of the long-closed Medical School of Maine. Now, author David Francis reveals Bowdoin’s spooky and maybe even ghostly history . . .
Author: Ernst Christian Helmreich
Publisher: College of
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Dorn
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2017-06-06
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 1501712608
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for? In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America's so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries of college and university history. From the community college to the elite research university—in states from California to Maine—Dorn engages a fundamental question confronted by higher education institutions ever since the nation's founding: Do colleges and universities contribute to the common good? Tracking changes in the prevailing social ethos between the late eighteenth and early twenty-first centuries, Dorn illustrates the ways in which civic-mindedness, practicality, commercialism, and affluence influenced higher education's dedication to the public good. Each ethos, long a part of American history and tradition, came to predominate over the others during one of the four chronological periods examined in the book, informing the character of institutional debates and telling the definitive story of its time. For the Common Good demonstrates how two hundred years of political, economic, and social change prompted transformation among colleges and universities—including the establishment of entirely new kinds of institutions—and refashioned higher education in the United States over time in essential and often vibrant ways.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher: The Floating Press
Published: 2011-07-01
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1775454118
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hawthorne's first published novel, Fanshawe combines romantic themes with an engaging look at college life in the early nineteenth century. Critics have noted that the novel has strong autobiographical components and is likely a thinly fictionalized account of the writer's own experiences as a student at Bowdoin College.
Author: Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1850
Publisher:
Published: 1895
Total Pages: 46
ISBN-13:
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