AN IMPORTANT EDUCATIONAL HISTORY.
Reading edition
A History of Higher Education in America.
By Dr. Charles F. Thwing, President of Western Reserve University and author of “College Training and the Business Man.” Cloth, $3.00 net; postage additional.
This volume, as its title implies, is a brief but comprehensive history of the higher education in America from the foundation of the first college down to the present day. All the larger colleges in each section of the country—their inception, growth, methods, present position, etc.—are discussed fully and accurately, and altogether the work forms a complete and authoritative history of the development of one of the most important factors in the advancement of the nation, the higher education.
“The President of Western Reserve University, a graduate of Harvard thirty years ago, has rendered a good service to the students of education, in this country and abroad, by the preparation of an historical volume which is full and comprehensive.... The supporters of superior education are certainly grateful to the author for bringing together such a mass of details on this important subject.”—New York Evening Post.
“The book has a very distinct character of its own: first, it does not contain an uninteresting page; the reader who takes it up is likely to read from page to page and from chapter to chapter until he reaches the end.... The book is conceived and executed in a large and generous spirit, combines accuracy and interest in an unusual degree, and is a notable addition to the literature of our educational history.”—The Dial.
“This is the first adequate modern book on higher education in America that has appeared, and it is also President Thwing’s best work. It is good history, good literature, and good professional reading.”—Boston Journal of Education.
“A careful and comprehensive history of higher education in America, which will fill a permanent place in the literature of educational subjects.”—Boston Evening Transcript.
“The history is the result of persevering research and careful study. It is judiciously arranged and admirably written. Undoubtedly the book will immediately take its place as a standard presentation of an important and difficult subject.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.