@nd Hour Exam, April 2, 2014

Alma Mater/Spring 2014
2^nd Hour Exam
April 2, 2014

Part I – Short Stuff – 20 Minutes
Link the academic personages in Column A to attributes in Columns B and C:

Column A – Personages	Column B	Column C
Annie Nathan Meyer	Harvard psychologist-philosopher	Funded Yale colleges, Harvard houses and Butler Library
Edward Harkness	Vermont senator	WW I anti-interventionist and critic of trustees
Woodrow Wilson	Prime mover in founding of Barnard	President of Princeton, 1904-10
William James	Progressive era journalist	WW I interventionist and critic of trustees
Frederick P. Keppel	Philanthropist	Promoter of land-grant colleges
Charles A. Beard	Hopkins PhD 1881	“Twilight of Idols”
Elizabeth Milbank Anderson	Psychologist	Popularizer of the pragmatic method
Nicholas Murray Butler	Columbia College dean	Grappled with “Hebrew problem”
James McKeen Cattell	political scientist – historian	Leading early Barnard benefactor
Justin Morrill	Spectator editor, 1931-32	Member of New York’s Sephardic Jewish community
Randolph Bourne	Heiress to Borden Milk fortune	Expelled for union organizing activities on campus
Reed Harris	Columbia PhD in philosophy	Prime mover behind College Entrance Examination Board

 

Column A – Personages	Column B	Column C
Annie Nathan Meyer	Prime mover of Barnard	Sephardic Jewish Community
Edward Harkness	Philanthropist	Funded Harvard houses, Yale colleges, Butler Library
Woodrow Wilson	Hopkins  PhD 1881	Princeton president, 1902-10
William James	Harvard psychologist-philosopher	Popularizer of Pragmatic Method
Frederick P. Keppel	Columbia College dean	Grappled with “Hebrew Problem”
Charles A. Beard	Columbia political scientist	WW I interventionist and trustee critic
Elizabeth Milbank Anderson	Heiress to Borden Milk fortune	Principal early Barnard benefactor
Nicholas Murray Butler	Columbia PhD in philosophy 1884	Organizer of CEEB
James McKeen Cattell	Columbia psychologist	WW I anti-interventionist and trustee critic
Justin Morrill	Vermont senator	Author of Land Grant Colleges Act
Randolph Bourne	NYC journalist and CC graduate	“twilight of Idols”
Reed Harris	Spectator editor, 1931-32	Expelled for anti-adminsitration editorials

 

I. B. Link the following institutional foundings with their prime movers and date of founding:

Institution	Founding Benefactor	Ist Administrative head	Year of Founding/Opening
Johns Hopkins	Ezra Cornell	Daniel Coit Gilman	1865/1868
Stanford	Leland Stanford	Ella Weed	1876
Barnard College	John D. Rockefeller	M. Carey Thomas	1885
University of Chicago	None	Wm. Rainey Harper	1889
Cornell	Philadelphia Quakers	David Starr Jordan	1885/1891
Bryn Mawr	Johns Hopkins	Andrew Dickson White	1891

 

Institution	Founding Benefactor	Ist Administrative head	Year of Founding/Opening
Johns Hopkins	Johns Hopkins	Daniel Coit Gilman	1876
Stanford	Leland Stanford	David Starr Jordan	1885/1891
Barnard College	None	Ella Weed	1889
University of Chicago	John D. Rockefeller	Wm. Rainey Harper	1891
Cornell	Ezra Cornell	Andrew Dickson White	1865/1868
Bryn Mawr	Philadelphia Quakers	M. Carey Thomas	1885

 

Part II.  Mid-Sized Stuff – 20 Minutes — Choose three and respond with three or four sentences/ bullets.

a. What were F. A. P.  Barnard’s views on the education of women?

b. What were William James’s views on the PhD?

c. What were George Santayana’s views on Yale?

c. What were John Dewey’s views on pacifism and non-interventionism in 1916-17

d. Which of the university’s constituencies did the rise of football bring together?

e. What was Randolph Bourne’s complaint with his professors?

Part III. Longer Stuff —  40 Minutes — Respond to two of the following propositions with two 20-minute critical essays in which you take a considered position.  Facts welcome.

a. The rise of the university in the late 19^th century is best  accounted for by pointing out the intellectual shortcomings of the ante-bellum colleges that preceded them. On this all contemporary observers of academe were agreed.

b. The return of the colleges in  the 1920s is best accounted for by pointing out the intellectual failings of the turn-of-the-century universities that preceded them. On this all contemporary observers of academe were agreed.

 

c. Efforts in the interwar era to limit the admission of Jews to academic institutions founded, funded and governed by Protestants were both understandable and defensible. And besides, the means by which Jews were excluded were relatively non-punitive.

d. As of 1940, America’s leading colleges and universities had yet to demonstrate that they had made good use of all the  financial resources, public and private, lavished on them. To the contrary, they represented to many thoughtful observers the nation’s most conspicuous instance of  “conspicuous consumption” and class-enforcing extravagance.