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Bureaucratic Tyranny: “The Price of Structure” in the American University

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Christopher P. Loss
Christopher P. Loss*
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University of Virginia
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I first encountered Laurence Veysey as an undergraduate at Pennsylvania State University in the early 1990s. I did not meet Veysey, who had long since left the academy. Nor did I read The Emergence of the American University’, which happened years later in graduate school. Actually, my first contact with Laurence R. Veysey occurred without me knowing it.

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Retrospective: Laurence R. Veysey's The Emergence of the American University
Information
History of Education Quarterly , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , Fall 2005 , pp. 446 - 453
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Copyright © 2005 by the History of Education Society 

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References

1 Dr. Joab Thomas served as the President of the Pennsylvania State University from 1990–1996. I served on the Undergraduate Life Committee during the 1993–1994 academic year.Google Scholar

2 Veysey, Laurence R. The Emergence of the American University (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965/1970), 381.Google Scholar

3 Ibid., 338.Google Scholar

4 Ibid.,311.Google Scholar

5 Ibid,443.Google Scholar

6 Ibid.,268, 316.Google Scholar

7 Veysey, Laurence R. “Freedom and Disorder in American History: An Interpretation,“ in Law and Resistance: American Attitudes Toward Authority, ed. Veysey, Laurence R. (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1970), 12–13.Google Scholar

8 Ibid., 36.Google Scholar

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16 For a sampling of the organizational literature, of which Emergence of the American University is a part, see, e.g., Wiebe, Robert The Search for Order, 1877–1920 (New York, Hill & Wang, 1967); Galambos, Louis “The Emerging Organizational Synthesis in Modern American History,” Review, Business History 44 (Autumn 1970): 279–290; and Brian Balogh, “Reorganizing the Organizational Synthesis: Federal-Professional Relations in Modern America,” Studies in American Political Development, 5 (Spring 1991): 119–172.Google Scholar

17 Quotation from Mario Savio's “Sproul Hall Speech,” December 2, 1964, available online at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/saviotranscript.html (February 5, 2005).Google Scholar