Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
Let me begin with a quotation: "The history of the universities was terra incognita until the early 1950s, inhabited only by pious hagiographers, myopic chroniclers, and that most dangerous of pre-historic animals, the historian of education. This latter creature . . . only seems to be concerned with gathering historical justifications for contemporary educational nostrums, or identifying the earliest instance of a pedagogic practice that meets with modern approbation" (Morgan, 142).
* I wish to acknowledge a grant from the Research Council of the University of Missouri-Columbia for this project, which is related to a broader study that has received grant support from the American Philosophical Society and a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.