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Article: The university in chaos. (conversation with Page Smith)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- May 7, 1990
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In Killing the Spirit, a new critique of higher education, historian and former campus administrator Page Smith points to the 19th-century sources of today's crisis
Where has American higher education gone wrong?
The problems date back to the 1890s, when the modern university took shape. in the preceding 15 years or so, many in higher education dreamed of using reason and scholarly study to reform society and create a better world. But then the tycoons moved in. It seemed as though every tycoon wanted a university of his own. Vanderbilt was started by a gift from the commodore. Stanford was founded by rapacious rail baron Leland Stanford. John D. ...