...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...

...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...

...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...

...Paul Shorey 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 that is finest in the American tradition. I doubt...

...William A. Webb The College Its Function and Place in Our System of Education William A. Webb, President of Central College Of all our educational problems of the past two decades none perhaps has received more careful consideration than the one which embraces the position, function, and ultimate...

...W. P. Few Volume X. JANUARY, 1911. Number 1. The South Atlantic Quarterly. The College in Southern Development.* By W. P. Few, President of Trinity College. It would seem to be appropriate for me, on an occasion like this, to give as clearly as I can my conception of the place of the college...

...Walter L. Fleming Copyright © 1912 by Duke University Press 1912 William Tecumseh Sherman as College President Walter L. Fleming Professor of History in Louisiana State University The Louisiana State Seminary (now the Louisiana State Uni­ versity,) began its first session on January 2, 1860...

...Thomas Lindsey Blayney, Ph. D. Copyright © 1912 by Duke University Press 1912 The Liberal Arts College and the New South Thomas Lindsey Blayney, Ph. D., Central University of Kentucky The signs of the times tend to contradict the oft-heard asser­ tion that the American people are a race...

...David Martin Key Copyright © 1913 by Duke University Press 1913 The Function of the College David Martin Key A college education is an expensive business. From Valparaiso upwards, it takes a good bit of money and of time. And the un­ dergraduate betrays an exquisite inability to appreciate...

...Theodore R. Crane Puritan Protagonist: President Thomas Clap of Yale College . By Tucker Louis Leonard . Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press , 1962 . Pp. xv , 283 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1963...

...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 Copyright © 1921 by Duke University Press 1921 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...

...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...