Perspectives on the History of Higher Education

Name: Perspectives on the History of Higher Education
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Perspectives on the History of Higher EducationVolume 24, 2005\nAuthor(s): Roger L. Geiger\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138529762, 978-1138529762\nSynopsis\nThe early twentieth century witnessed the rise of middle-class mass periodicals that, while offering readers congenial material, also conveyed new depictions of manliness, liberal education, and the image of business leaders. \""Should Your Boy Go to College?\"" asked one magazine story; and for over two decades these middle-class magazines answered, in numerous permutations, with a collective \""yes!\"" In the course of interpreting these themes they reshaped the vision of a college education, and created the ideal of a college-educated businessman.\n\nVolume 24 of the Perspectives on the History of Higher Education: 2005 provides historical studies touching on contemporary concerns--gender, high-ability students, academic freedom, and, in the case of the Ba.