Gentlemen and scholars
Subtitle: colleges and community in the "Age of the University"
By: W. Bruce Leslie.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Brunswick
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Private universities and colleges -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.; Private universities and colleges -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies.; Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.; Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: "With a new introduction by the author."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-277) and index.
Table of contents: value: Four colleges and their communities; value: Colleges and communities, 1865-1890; value: Rural piety and urban wealth; value: When professors had servants; value: "What knowledge is of most worth?"; value: Students as gentlemen; value: Convergence and cosmopolitanism, 1890-1917; value: Piety versus prosperity in the Protestant college; value: Presidential power and academic autonomy; value: Knowledge fit for Protestant gentlemen; value: "The side shows have swallowed up the circus"; value: Emergence of the modern American college; value: The age of the college; value: The college in the social order.