Study Guide for 2nd Hour Exam
Alma Mater/Spring 2014
for Wednesday, April 1, 2014
Responsible for chapters 5 – 11 in Stand, Columbia
Lectures 10 -17
Readings for Part II (February 20 – April 1) under “Readings” – be able to identify quotes from primary readings by author, title, date, circumstance.
Student postings for March 25, 2014, located on Coureworks course site
1. Biographical Identifications by position, institutional affiliation, events,
publications, quoted statements:
Matthew Vassar Justin Morrill
Frederick A. Barnard Ezra Cornell
Andrew Dickson White Henry Adams
Charles William Eliot Johns Hopkins
Daniel Coit Gilman Henry A. Rowland
Woodrow Wilson Nicholas Murray Butler
John W. Burgess Leland Stanford
M. Carey Thomas Annie Nathan Meyer
Seth Low William James
George Santayana John D. Rockefeller
William Rainey Harper James McKeen Cattell
Franz Boas Frederick P. Keppel
John Dewey Charles A. Beard
Freda Kirchwey Randolph Bourne
Dink Stover Whittaker Chambers
Abbott Lawrence Lowell Robert Maynard Hutchins
John Erskine Jacob Schiff
Herbert E. Hawkes Benjamin Cardozo
Lionel Trilling Reed Harris
Andrew Carnegie Edward Harkness
Virginia Gildersleeve
Familiarity with the “Emergent University Timeline, 1860-1940”
Familiarity with “Columbia and the Higher Learning, 1858-1940”i
Familiarity with the “Barnard College Timeline to 1940”
Familiarity with the sequence of the major institutional foundings and something
of their individual origin sagas
Larger considerations
Use of primary readings and your own informed thoughts to address such issues as:
The curricular aspects of the emergence of universities;
The financial aspects of the emergence of universities;
The religious aspects of the emergence of universities;
The role of big business (and big businessmen) in university-building;
The changing relationships among students, faculty, trustees and presidents from the “age
of the college” to the “ascendance of the university”
Changes in the relationship between institutions of higher learning and public affairs;
The factors advancing the education of women nationally and at Columbia
The place of universities in the Progressive Era
The impact of American entry into World War upon universities in general and
Columbia in particular
The return of the college in the 1920s
The case for and against discriminatory admissions policies in the interwar period
The impact of the Great Depression and international events on campus politics