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Publication Date: 1997
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Enlightening the Wilderness: Charles Nisbet's Failure at Higher Education in Post-Revolutionary Pennsylvania.
Robson, David W.
History of Education Quarterly, v37 n3 p271-89 Fall 1997
Provides an examination of Charles Nisbet's stewardship of Dickinson College in post-revolutionary Pennsylvania. Nisbet's attempts to create a university reflecting the republican ideals of an enlightened aristocracy governing a deferential population met with disastrous resistance from a faculty and student body more aligned with revolutionary democratic principles. (MJP)
Descriptors: Academic Failure, College Presidents, Colonial History (United States), Democratic Values, Educational Administration, Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Elitism, Faculty College Relationship, Higher Education, Immigrants, Leadership, Social Values, Student College Relationship, Traditionalism
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Language: English
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