1st Edition
Perspectives on the History of Higher Education Volume 24, 2005
By Roger L. Geiger
Copyright 2005
220 Pages
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Routledge
220 Pages
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Routledge
212 Pages
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Routledge
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The early twentieth century witnessed the rise of middle-class mass periodicals that, while offering readers congenial material, also conveyed new depictions of manliness, liberal education, and the image of business leaders. "Should Your Boy Go to College?" asked one magazine story; and for over two decades these middle-class magazines answered, in numerous permutations, with a collective "yes!"... Read more
Editor’s Note, Piggy Goes to Harvard: Mass Magazines, the Middle Class, and the Re-Conceptualization of College for a Corporate Age, 1895–1910, “What Gender Is Lex?” Women, Men, and Power Relations in Colleges of the Nineteenth Century, The “Problem of the Gifted Student”: National Research Council Efforts to Identify and Cultivate Undergraduate Talent in a New Era of Mass Education, 1919–1929, Reds, Race, and Research: Homer P. Rainey and the Grand Texas Tradition of Political Interference, 1939–1944, A Not-So-Systematic Effort to Study Art: Albert Barnes and Lincoln University, Selected Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education, Contributors
Biography
Roger L. Geiger
