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...William H. Cartwright They Went to College; The College Graduate in America Today . By Havemann Ernest West Patricia Salter . New York : Harcourt Brace & Co. , 1952 . Pp. x , 277 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 Book Reviews US They Went...

...Carlo Rotella Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Carlo Rotella Three Views of the Fistic Summits from College Hill Lafayette College is on College Hill, overlook­ ing the rest of Easton, Pennsylvania, a large town wedged into the junction of the Delaware and Lehigh Rivers...

...Edgar W. Knight Copyright © 1935 by Duke University Press 1935 SOME EARLY DISCUSSIONS OF THE COLLEGE CURRICULUM EDGAR W. KNIGHT T MUST in all honesty say, that, looking back through the -L years', and recalling the requirements and methods of the ancient institution, I am unable to speak...

...Edgar W. Knight Copyright © 1935 by Duke University Press 1935 SOME RECENT CHANGES IN THE COLLEGE CURRICULUM EDGAR W. KNIGHT AS NOTED earlier,* the curriculum of higher education .in the United States since the World War has tended to swing away from freedom of election to a measure of pre­...

...Mitchell B. Garrett Copyright © 1927 by Duke University Press 1927 THE COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION AND RESEARCH* MITCHELL B. GARRETT Howard College THIS paper should begin, I think, by asking, What is the proper function of a college ? Should the collegiate task be limited to transmitting...

...Virginia Fitsgerald A Southern College Boy Eighty Years Ago Virginia Fitsgf.rald Blackstone, Virginia The life of a student is chequered with bright spots, and the petty disappointments and troubles may for a time be­ cloud his sky, yet like Spring flowers they only make The smile that follows...

...Walter Spearman; Jack R. Brown Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 WHEN THE VETERAN GOES TO COLLEGE WALTER SPEARMAN and JACK R. BROWN THE EDUCATIONAL provisions of the G. I. Bill of Rights offer ex-servicemen more than elbow room at an educational free-lunch counter; they also...

...Elbert Vaughan Wills Copyright © 1925 by Duke University Press 1925 Political Economy in the Early American College Curriculum Elbert Vaughan Wills Brooklyn, N. Y. The progress of the past half century in the field of his­ toriography has effected a noteworthy change in the method of approach...

...Paul Shorey Copyright © 1920 by Duke University Press 1920 The Importance of the Southern College to American Civilization.* Paul Shorey, University of Chicago. It is a pleasure to welcome another worthy southern col­ lege to membership in this all-American fraternity, symbolic of all...

...Joel G. Colton The College of the City of New York: A History, 1847-1947 . By Rudy S. Willis . New York : The City College Press , 1949 . Pp. x , 492 . $6.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 Book Reviews 421 Less than a year later there appeared the two...

...Alan Jenkins Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 PORTRAIT OF A POET AT COLLEGE ALAN JENKINS IN SEPTEMBER, 1898, Charles August Sandburg, later to be known as Carl Sandburg, entered Lombard College, Galesburg, Illinois, as a liberal arts student. Twenty years old, he had just...

...Mary G. Lacy Copyright © 1910 by Duke University Press 1910 The Opportunity of the Agricultural College Library By Mary G. Lacy Arguments on the expediency of teaching agriculture in the public schools are no longer pertinent, for the subject has passed beyond the argumentative stage and has...

...John Holladay Latane, Ph. D. Copyright © 1910 by Duke University Press 1910 Volume IX. JANUARY, 1910. Number 1 The , South Atlantic Quarterly. Problems of the American College By John Holladay Latane, Ph. D. Professor of History in Washington and Lee University The growth of the American...

...Alice M. Baldwin Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 THE WOMAN S COLLEGE OF DUKE UNIVERSITY Alice M. Baldwin IN THIS, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Woman s College of Duke University, it may be worth while to review a little of its history and more especially...

...William H. Hand Copyright © 1910 by Duke University Press 1910 The Opportunities and the Obligations of the College. By William H. Hand, State High School Inspector in the University of South Carolina. Every one at all familiar with, educational conditions in the South must be keenly...

... Copyright © 1904 by Duke University Press 1904 Trinity College and Academic Liberty The editor has been requested to publish the subjoined state­ ment, memorial, and editorial. He is glad to comply with the request, both because of its respectable source and because he desires to make...

...Edgar H. Johnson Copyright © 1905 by Duke University Press 1905 Exemption of College Endowments From Taxation By Edgar H. Tohnson, Professor of History and Economics in Emory College Nearly all modern States levy taxes on their citizens for the support of higher education. According...

...Henry Nelson Snyder Copyright © 1906 by Duke University Press 1906 The Denominational College in Southern Education By Henry Nelson Snyder, President of Wofford College, S. C. The motive behind the foundation of the earlier denomina­ tional colleges in the South, as in other parts...

...Tremaine McDowell Copyright © 1931 by Duke University Press 1931 CULLEN BRYANT PREPARES FOR COLLEGE TREMAINE McDOWELL yTY EARNEST inquiry, wrote the Reverend Moses 1V1 Hallock of Plainfield, Massachusetts, to his sons in Williams College, is not concerning pecuniary matters, lit­ erary...

...Robert Withington Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 OF COLLEGE COLORS ROBERT WITHINGTON THE COLORS which symbolize our colleges, with which we are familiar on gridiron and diamond, on track and river, and in academic processions, seem to have come to life as mysteriously as Topsy...