Title: Paupers and scholars : the transformation of student life in nineteenth-century New England /
Authors: Allmendinger, David F.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press,
Year: 1975
Subjects: Students New England History; Education New England History; Education New England History.; Students New England History.
Contents: Students as inarticulate people -- I. Scholars who were not gentlemen -- Infiltration by the poor -- The experience of student poverty -- II. Charity as a lever of change -- Ancient patrons: dry wells -- The little education societies -- The strangeness of the American Education SOciety -- III. Poverty's toll on student life -- Self-reliance: the demise of community -- The dangers of Antebellum student life -- In Loco Collegii -- Appendix A: The age of New England students -- Appendix B: Southampton students.