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Presidents'-Eye-View of the History of Higher Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Mark Beach
Mark Beach*
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University of Rochester
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , Winter 1972 , pp. 575 - 587
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Copyright © 1973 by New York University 

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1. Morgan, Edmund, The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles 1727–1795 (New Haven, 1962); Tucker, Louis, Puritan Protagonist: President Thomas Clapp of Yale College (Chapel Hill, 1962); Crane, Theodore, Francis Wayland: Political Scientist as Educator (Providence, 1962); Miller, Perry, Jonathan Edwards (Boston, 1949).Google Scholar

2. Bragdon, Henry W., Woodrow Wilson: The Academic Years (Cambridge, Mass., 1967).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3. Ben-David, Joseph, American Higher Education: Directions Old and New (New York, 1972); Ringer, Fritz, The Decline of the German Mandarins: The German Academic Community, 1890–1933 (Cambridge, Mass., 1969); Veysey, Lawrence, The Emergence of the American University (Chicago, 1965).Google Scholar

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9. For some happy exceptions to these generalizatons, see Herbst, Jurgen, The German Historical School in American Scholarship (Ithaca, 1965); Rader, Benjamin, The Academic Mind and Reform: The Influence of Richard T. Ely in American Life (Lexington, 1966); and Harris, Seymour, The Economics of Harvard (New York, 1970).Google Scholar

10. Nineteenth-century discourses on college government, such as Barnard's, F. A. P., Letters on College Government (New York, 1855), should not be confused with writing about the art or science of administration. The former books dealt with the control of students.Google Scholar

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13. Finley, John H. and Sanderson, John F., The American Executive and Executive Methods (New York, 1918); and Elliott, Edward C., The Government of Higher Education (New York, 1935). For the purposes of this essay, one might include two classic articles that are not easily classified: Woodrow Wilson's “The Study of Administration,” Political Science Quarterly 2 (1887): 197–222, forecast virtually every aspect of scientific administration as the twentieth century came to know it. Conant's, James, “Academical Superintendence and Patronage,” Harvard Educational Review. 8 (May 1938): 312–34, should rightly be called “an autobiographical sojourn, with comments, through British and American literature on university administration.”Google Scholar

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16. Dozens of administrators with lesser titles have written books and left records far more worthy of comment than those produced by most university presidents. Using the groupings developed for this essay, one thinks at once of the biography of Seaman Knapp, by Bailey, Joseph (New York, 1945), the autobiography of Cross, Wilbur (New Haven, 1943), the outspoken analyses by Barzun, Jacques and Nisbet, Robert, and the graceful admonitions of Brown, C. Douglas. The research on administration by Ruml, Beardsley and Mark Ingraham probably influenced higher education more than any presidential writing, as did the leadership of Edward Litchfield as editor of Administrative Science Quarterly. All of these men were deans at well-known institutions.Google Scholar