Describes the educational background of Edmund Wilson, the early twentieth century critic and journalist. Looks at his experiences at Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and Princeton University, New Jersey, and the professors and teachers who influenced his life and pedagogical theories. (CAM)

The Free Speech Movement (FSM) at Berkeley during the 1960s demonstrated to students nationwide that effective protest movements could be built on campus and that engaging in such dissident activity was not un-American but was, in fact, their moral and political right. The history of this movement is discussed. (RM)

Excerpted from the second volume of his three-part autobiography, this essay describes B. F. Skinner's first year as a graduate student at Harvard University. Although he focuses on his study of psychology, particularly behaviorism, Skinner also discusses his interest in physiology. (JMD)

Nineteen essays comprise this personal and historical look at the University of Utah and the relationship between the university, its people, and the community. Essays include: "One Cannot Live Long Enough to Outgrow a University" (Ramona Wilcox Cannon); "Ever in the Freshness of Its Youth" (G. Homer Durham); "The Final…

From 1776-1800, 16 colleges were founded in the United States that still operate today. These colleges, founded on what was then the American frontier, demonstrated both the continuity and the diversity of the period in their student bodies, curriculum, political role, and relationship to the older seaboard colleges and culture. (IS)

Examines the Scottish university tradition and the origins and particulars of Scottish-Anglo differences in higher education. Discusses the 19th-century growth of Scottish universities, which lacked formal entrance requirements; students' rights and power in the university; academic degrees awarded; relationship with the state; and student…

This book reviews the turbulent period of political activity and student unrest of the 1960s and places it in a larger historical perspective. It analyzes the source of student activism, the roles played by the faculty, the spectrum of campus political opinion, and the history of American campus protest. Individual chapters examine: (1) the…

On each campus exists a social order that has persisted from an earlier time. In the 1960s, cultural currents strong enough to feel like a revolution in consciousness opened new ways of thinking and behaving. Collegiate rebellion has returned as the children of the 1960s rebels enter college. (MLW)

Ballarat Teachers' College was established in 1926 to train teachers for rural schools in Victoria (Australia). The first principal, William Ellwood, was an inspirational, dynamic educator who imbued students with ideals of social and community service. These ideals would equip the young teacher to gain the esteem and respect of the rural…

When colleges were first organized in what would later become the United States, they were far different from those in existence today. Students matriculated, enrolled, and graduated in lock step through a prescribed 4-year curriculum. Colleges functioned not so much to encourage intellectual development as to foster moral piety. Topics and sides…

The findings and impressions of a study conducted by a journalist examining college life in the 1970's are presented. The Ivy League campuses, plus those of Michigan, California, Stanford, and the University of Chicago were involved in the study. Case histories and more than 650 interviews with students, teachers, administrators, and parents led…

Nineteenth-century assumptions about the nature of women, her educability, her role in society, and debates about coeducation are examined in this record of the efforts of the first women students to gain entrance in McGill University in Canada. The introduction offers historical background, ideas of women, and the opening of higher education to…

The revolutionary changes in the relationship between students and their colleges and the role of court litigation in crystallizing or bringing about social, political, and educational change are discussed. (MSE)

The origins of the student movement of the 1930s are discussed, with attention to internal dynamics and reactions to external events, and the impact on student attitudes today. After providing a background of the antiwar movement, individual university revolts and strikes are considered. An explanation is offered concerning students' thoughts and…

Parallels found between college students of the 1950s and 1970s are discussed with specific reference to campus lifestyles and events, academics, politics, and religion/morality. The comparisons are based on the author's personal experiences as a student at a state university during the 1950s and as a student personnel educator in the 1970s.…