This work provides a critical reexamination of the origin and development of America's land-grant colleges and universities, created by the most important piece of legislation in higher education. The story is divided into five parts that provide closer examinations of representative developments.Part I describes the connection between agricultural research and American colleges. Part II shows that the responsibility of defining and implementing the land-grant act fell to the states, which produced a variety of institutions in the nineteenth century. Part III details the first phase of the conflict during the latter decades of the nineteenth century about whether land colleges were intended to be agricultural colleges, or full academic institutions. Part IV focuses on the fact that full-fledged universities became dominant institutions of American higher education. The final part shows that the land-grant mission is alive and well in university colleges of agriculture and, in fact, is inherent to their identity.Including some of the best minds the field has to offer, this volume follows in the fine tradition of past books in Transaction's Perspectives on the History of Higher Education series.

Subtitle; The role played by the scientific societies; scientific journals; natural history museums and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys; federal exploring expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, palentology and zoology.

This bibliography brings together in one comprehensive volume citations of books, dissertations, theses, and ERIC microfiche relating to the history of specific institutions of higher education worldwide. All types of postsecondary institutions--two years colleges, liberal arts colleges, seminaries, specialized institutions, and universities--are included. Entries include the following elements when available: author/editor, title, place of publication, publisher, publication date, and number of pages. Citations from 85 countries are included. Entries are by country, dependency, and territory. The United States has been further divided by state. Names of institutions are in English. References are in the language in which they were written. The majority of the citations should be available in a library somewhere in the United States. Obscure sources that may be difficult to obtain have been included because they are often the only citation. All editions of a title as well as older works are included because of their potential value to a researcher. The book should be a part of all college, university, and large public library collections. College of Education faculty members specializing in higher or comparative education will find much of value here.

Excerpt from Reminiscences of Amherst College: Historical, Scientific, Biographical and Autobiographical; Also, of Other and Wider Life Experiences, (With Four Plates and a Geological Map) I have now been connected with Amherst College during the whole period of its legal existence, that is, ever since it obtained a Charter, which was thirty-eight years ago. It had, indeed, commenced operations four years earlier, and graduated fifty-three; but, with perhaps one or two exceptions, I had become acquainted with them all, as well as with the officers. With the 1,520 who have since graduated, I have of course been acquainted, because I have given them all courses of lectures, and heard their recitations in the department assigned me. For I have never been prevented, in any year, from giving my assigned course of instruction, either by sickness or absence. I have also known personally, and as friends, every Instructor who has been connected with the College. I can say the same with respect to all the Trustees, and other persons officially related to the Institution, and with most of the early and later benevolent individuals who have founded and sustained it. I have also been cognizant of, and shared in, all the seasons of prosperity through which it has passed, and during the season of its deepest pecuniary exigency and its subsequent relief, I was its responsible head. Professor Snell is the only man living who has been here as long, for he was appointed Tutor in 1825, and Professor in 1829. In view of these facts, the inquiry has often arisen in my mind, whether it might not be a useful service, and perhaps a duty, to put upon paper such reminiscences of Amherst College as seem to me worthy of preservation. For I am sure that I should be able to give many such, in relation to some of the interests of the College, that are unknown to others. Till recently, I have been prevented from such an effort, by several circumstances. One was the great pressure of other literary labors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A biography of diplomat William Smith Clark, an exponent of the modernization of Japan in the nineteenth century and founder of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.