...Frances Acomb Education for Ladies 1830-1860. Ideas on Education in Magazines for Women . By Thompson Eleanor Wolf . New York : King’s Crown Press , 1947 . Pp. 170 . $2.75 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 276 The South Atlantic Quarterly that such a work...

...J. Peter Euben Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 J. Peter Euben When There Are Cray Skies: Aristophanes Clouds and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens Is there anyone here I haven t offended? Lenny Bruce Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughter...

...Henry A. Giroux Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Henry A. Giroux Liberal Arts Education and the Struggle for Public Life: Dreaming about Democracy I will begin with what has become a com­ monplace but no less significant assertion: that the most important questions facing both...

...John S. Whitehead Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Caught Between Two Worlds: Mr. Jefferson s University and the Literature of American Higher Education A Review Article by John S. Whitehead Over the last two decades reviewers of books on the history of American higher education...

...Alexander Heard Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Tax Reform vs. Voluntaryism: The New Threat to Higher Education in America Alexander Heard This article was presented at the Graduation Exercises of Duke University on May 11, 1975. Alexander Heard is Chancellor of Vanderbilt...

...David Wallace Adams Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Education in Hues: Red and Black at Hampton Institute, 1878-1893 David Wallace Adams In recent years historians have shown an increased interest in both comparative racial studies and the historic role that education has...

...Stephen Uhalley, Jr. Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Education in China Today and Prospects for American Involvement Stephen Uhalley., Jr. There is today no realm of Chinese life that better illustrates the determination of China s political leadership to continue the social...

...Robert W. Rogers Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Notes on Alexander Pope s Early Education Robert W. Rogers Little is known and probably little can ever be known about the education of Alexander Pope. As with so many other aspects of his life, he was directly affected...

...Sten Carlsson Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 ENCOUNTER WITH THE UNITED STATES AND WITH AMERICAN EDUCATION Sten Carlsson TO WRITE A DESCRIPTION of a trip to the United States is a bold undertaking today, when ten thousand of one s country­ men have a firsthand acquaintance...

...William H. Cartwright The Case for Basic Education: A Program of Aims for Public Schools . Edited by Koerner James D. . Boston : Atlantic-Little Brown , 1959 . Pp. xiii , 256 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Book Reviews 305 cussed (without reaching...

...Robert F. Durden Teach the Freeman: The Correspondence of Rutherford B. Hayes and the Slater Fund for Negro Education . Rubin Louis D. Jr. , editor. Vol. 1, 1881-1887 ; Vol. II, 1888-1893 . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1959 . Pp. lv , 236 ; 302 . $10.00...

...Lewis Patton Book Reviews 517 Wordsworth s Cambridge Education. By Ben Ross Schneider, Jr. Cambridge: The University Press, 1958. Pp. xi, 298. $6.00. When one considers the minuteness with which scholarship has traced down, during our times, the sources of literary influence, it is surprising...

...William H. Cartwright A History of American Education . By Noble Stuart G. . Revised edition. New York : Rinehart and Company , 1954 . Pp. xx , 552 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 Book Reviews 437 the architectural monuments of Roman antiquity...

.... Passive education is an insult to those who have time, opportunity, and ability to attain active education, but it has its place. It is the only method available for those who are educationally inept. Passive education becomes a mandatory dividing line and calls for stern social decisions. To what extent...

...Alan K. Manchester Student Charges and Financing Higher Education . By Ostheimer Richard H. . New York : Columbia University Press , 1953 . Pp. xx , 217 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 Book Reviews 169 overtures. Better relations after 1933 came...

...Alan K. Manchester Essays on Education . By Griswold Alfred Whitney . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1954 . Pp. xiii , 164 . $2.75 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 594 The South Atlantic Quarterly footnotes are also helpful, and the bibliography and index...

... that the completed work will be what is called a definitive biography. P. F. BAUM An Adventure in Education: Connecticut Points the Way. By Fred M. Hechinger. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1955. Pp. ix, 266. $3.75. This book should be required reading for the public at large. It describes what was probably...

... vindication at long last. In addition to being well docu­ mented, the book contains an appendix and a selective bibliography. Un­ fortunately, there is no index. This is an excellent presentation of a rather difficult subject. george d. harmon Education and Responsibility. By Tunis Romein. Lexington: Uni­...

...Alan K. Manchester Some Observations on American Education . By Hutchins Robert M. . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1956 . Pp. xiii , 112 . $2.75 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 Book Reviews 407 George William Curtis & the Genteel Tradition...

...William H. Cartwright Cubberley of Stanford and His Contribution to American Education . By Sears Jesse B. Henderson Adin D. . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1957 . Pp. xi , 301 . $5.75 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 294 The South Atlantic...