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Writing When Everything Has Been Said: The History of American Higher Education following Laurence Veysey's Classic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Julie A. Reuben
Julie A. Reuben*
Affiliation:
Harvard Graduate School of Education
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I wandered into the history of universities through a side door. I went to graduate school to study intellectual history. In my second year, I decided to write a seminar paper on changing ideas about the nature of religion but wanted to avoid the abstractness of traditional history of ideas. Looking for some more “concrete” way of documenting change in ideas than the analysis of individual thinkers allowed, I decided somewhat arbitrarily to “ground” my study in the history of universities. I do not recall even thinking about universities as related to the production of knowledge but rather viewed them as a convenient social institution in which one could find changing practices of religion.

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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. 412 - 419
Copyright
Copyright © 2005 by the History of Education Society 

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