Bruce A Kimball
Biographic Data
| ID | 1119679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce A Kimball |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce A |
| FAMILY NAME | Kimball |
| SIGNATURE | KIMBALL B A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rochester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8637-8562 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Chemical composition of glandular secretions from a pair‐living monogamous primate
Broadening our knowledge of olfactory communication in strictly monogamous systems can inform our understanding of how chemosignals may facilitate social and reproductive behavior between the sexes. Compared to other social and mating systems, relatively little is known about olfactory communication in strictly monogamous non-human primates. Furthermore, platyrrhines are not well represented in chemical analyses of glandular secretions. We conduc…
Historical Dimensions of the “Cost Disease” in US Higher Education, 1870s–2010s
Among explanations for the escalating cost of higher education in the United States, two economic theories predominate: the revenue theory of cost and cost disease theory. Since its formulation in the 1960s, distinguished economists have concluded that cost disease theory has convincingly been proven to explain cost escalation in higher education. This article examines three historical dimensions of the cost disease in higher education from the 1…
Measuring cost escalation in the formative era of U.S. higher education, 1875–1930
Cost escalation in higher education in the United States prior to 1930 has scarcely been studied, even though the period from the 1870s to the 1920s was formative for U.S. higher education. This article develops and explains a method to measure the cost during this period. The authors then compile more accurate cost data than have been available, calculate new cost indexes for higher education from 1875 to 1930, and compare these indexes to econo…
Democratizing” Fundraising at Elite Universities
With the regularity of commencement, colleges and universities today conduct annual solicitations of alumni and multiyear comprehensive fundraising campaigns. These now commonplace practices constituted radical innovations in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The former originated at Yale University in 1890; the latter at Harvard University between 1915 and 1925. It was through these two innovations that higher education began to…
The Rising Cost of Higher Education
In order to explain the rising cost of higher education, economist Howard Bowen in 1980 proposed his “famous law” of institutional finance. Bowen based his “revenue theory of cost” on a study of aggregate quantitative data extending from 1929 to 1979. Neither he nor subsequent economists asked whether or how that “law” applied prior to 1929. Nor did they examine specific cases or testimony to understand the historical operation and nuances of the…
The Beginning of “Free Money” Ideology in American Universities
During the period between 1870 and 1920, the gross national product of the United States increased more than sixfold, as revolutions in transportation, communications, and manufacturing sparked growth in the economy. Large industrial corporations emerged, and their growing power presented grave challenges for social policy, while their wealth enriched an unprecedented number of millionaires and multi-millionaires, whose contributions prompted an …
American Higher Education Transformed, 1940–2005
The Liberal Arts Tradition
Ranging from Plato in antiquity to Martha Nussbaum in the present era, the authors of the seventy readings included in The Liberal Arts Tradition present significant and exemplary views addressing liberal arts education over the course of its history, particularly in the United States. Most of the documents are newly translated or no longer available in print. Arranged chronologically, each selection is accompanied by an informative introduction …
The Liberal Arts Tradition
Ranging from Plato in antiquity to Martha Nussbaum in the present era, the authors of the seventy readings included inThe Liberal Arts Traditionpresent significant and exemplary views addressing liberal arts education over the course of its history, particularly in the United States. Most of the documents are newly translated or no longer available in print. Arranged chronologically, each selection is accompanied by an informative introduction an…
The Liberal Arts Tradition
Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction: The Disputed Origins Chapter 3 Section I: Debates in Antiquity Chapter 4 Section II: Late Antiquity and Middle Ages: Christian Appropriation, Codification, and Female Imagery Chapter 5 Section III: In the modernus University, 1100s -1500 Chapter 6 Section IV: The Humanist and Collegiate Traditions Chapter 7 Section V: Humanist, Scholastic, and Sectarian Strains in the Colonial College Chapter 8 Section VI…
Why don’t rats and mice vomit? A behavioral and anatomical investigation
"This Pitiable Rejection of a Great Opportunity"
Langdell on Contracts and Legal Reasoning
During the first decade of his tenure as dean of Harvard Law School (HLS) from 1870 to 1895, Christopher C. Langdell (1826–1906) produced closely related works on contracts and sales that exercised great influence pedagogically and jurisprudentially. Pedagogically, the casebooks on contracts and sales introduced case method teaching into American legal education. In jurisprudential terms, these works placed Langdell with Frederick Pollock and Wil…
The Principle, Politics, and Finances of Introducing Academic Merit as the Standard of Hiring for “the teaching of law as a career,” 1870–1900
Compared to the practice in other professional schools and academic fields at universities, law professors are hired at a young age based primarily upon their academic merit determined through grades, class rank, and school rank. This emphasis upon narrowly defined academic merit—apart from achievement demonstrated through original scholarship or experience in professional practice—first emerged during “the professionalization of the American law…
The Proliferation of Case Method Teaching in American Law Schools
Case method teaching was first introduced into American higher education in 1870 by Christopher C. Langdell (1826-1906) of Harvard Law School (HLS), where it became closely associated with—and emblematic of—a set of academic meritocratic reforms. Though regnant today, “the ultimate triumph of [Langdell's] system was not apparent” for many years. The vast majority of students, alumni, and law professors initially derided it as an “abomination,” an…
The "First Modern Civil Procedure Course" as Taught by C.C. Langdell, 1870-78
The “First Modern Civil Procedure Course” as Taught by C.C. Langdell, 1870–78 Get access Bruce A. Kimball, Bruce A. Kimball Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Pedro Reyes Pedro Reyes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 47, Issue 3, July 2005, Pages 257–303, https://doi.org/10.2307/30039514 Published: 01 July 2005
The Highest Legal Ability in the Nation”
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The Highest Legal Ability in the Nation
The Langdell Problem
Christopher Columbus Langdell (1826–1906) is arguably the most influential figure in the history of legal education in the United States, having shaped the modern law school by introducing a number of significant reforms during his tenure as dean of Harvard Law School (HLS) from 1870 to 1895. Langdell's innovations—including the admission requirement of a bachelor's degree, the graded and sequential curriculum, the hurdle of annual examinations f…
When Holmes Borrowed from Langdell
Journal Article When Holmes Borrowed from Langdell: The “Ultra Legal” Formalism and Public Policy of Northern Securities (1904) Get access R. Blake Brown, R. Blake Brown Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bruce A. Kimball Bruce A. Kimball Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 45, Issue 3, July 2001, Pages 278–321, https://doi.org/10.…
The Life of Langdell Has Not Been Logic; It Has Been Experience
William LaPiana has led the way in searching for, identifying, and examining new evidence about Langdell, so it is gratifying to learn that he is informed by my revisions of Langdell's bibliography, teaching schedule, and career chronology. LaPiana also affirms the significance of Langdell's early lectures on partnership and commercial paper, adding informative points both about Langdell's views and their possible influence on others. However, th…
Warn Students That I Entertain Heretical Opinions, Which They Are Not to Take as Law”
Christopher Columbus Langdell (1826–1906) was perhaps the most influential figure in the history of legal education in the United States. He shaped the modern law school by introducing a number of significant reforms during his tenure as dean of Harvard Law School (HLS) from 1870 to 1895. Indeed, Langdell may well be the most influential figure in the history of American professional education because he established at HLS, with the help of Presi…
Creating the Cold War University
Sociology
The "True Professional Ideal" in America
Bruce A. Kimball attacks the widely held assumption that the idea of American professionalism arose from the proliferation of urban positions during the late nineteenth century. This first paperback edition of The True Professional Ideal in America argues that the ideal can be traced back to the colonial period. This comprehensive intellectual history illuminates the profound relationships between the idea of a professional and broader changes in…
Warn Students That I Entertain Heretical Opinions, Which They Are Not to Take as Law”
Christopher Columbus Langdell (1826–1906) was perhaps the most influential figure in the history of legal education in the United States. He shaped the modern law school by introducing a number of significant reforms during his tenure as dean of Harvard Law School (HLS) from 1870 to 1895. Indeed, Langdell may well be the most influential figure in the history of American professional education because he established at HLS, with the help of Presi…
Orators and Philosophers
The Proliferation of Case Method Teaching in American Law Schools
Case method teaching was first introduced into American higher education in 1870 by Christopher C. Langdell (1826-1906) of Harvard Law School (HLS), where it became closely associated with—and emblematic of—a set of academic meritocratic reforms. Though regnant today, “the ultimate triumph of [Langdell's] system was not apparent” for many years. The vast majority of students, alumni, and law professors initially derided it as an “abomination,” an…
The Beginning of “Free Money” Ideology in American Universities
During the period between 1870 and 1920, the gross national product of the United States increased more than sixfold, as revolutions in transportation, communications, and manufacturing sparked growth in the economy. Large industrial corporations emerged, and their growing power presented grave challenges for social policy, while their wealth enriched an unprecedented number of millionaires and multi-millionaires, whose contributions prompted an …
Creating the Cold War University
The Historical and Cultural Dimensions of the Recent Reports on Undergraduate Education
The major points made in the recent reports on undergraduate education are analogous to the tenets of one of the two major traditions in the history of liberal education and to the central dilemmas concerning knowledge and culture now being discussed in the humanistic and social disciplines. The recent reports do not recognize these analogies, which point to the deeper implications of and important contradictions in their recommendations for unde…
The Rising Cost of Higher Education
In order to explain the rising cost of higher education, economist Howard Bowen in 1980 proposed his “famous law” of institutional finance. Bowen based his “revenue theory of cost” on a study of aggregate quantitative data extending from 1929 to 1979. Neither he nor subsequent economists asked whether or how that “law” applied prior to 1929. Nor did they examine specific cases or testimony to understand the historical operation and nuances of the…
Scholarly Means to Evangelical Ends
Measuring cost escalation in the formative era of U.S. higher education, 1875–1930
Cost escalation in higher education in the United States prior to 1930 has scarcely been studied, even though the period from the 1870s to the 1920s was formative for U.S. higher education. This article develops and explains a method to measure the cost during this period. The authors then compile more accurate cost data than have been available, calculate new cost indexes for higher education from 1875 to 1930, and compare these indexes to econo…
Democratizing” Fundraising at Elite Universities
With the regularity of commencement, colleges and universities today conduct annual solicitations of alumni and multiyear comprehensive fundraising campaigns. These now commonplace practices constituted radical innovations in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The former originated at Yale University in 1890; the latter at Harvard University between 1915 and 1925. It was through these two innovations that higher education began to…
Langdell on Contracts and Legal Reasoning
During the first decade of his tenure as dean of Harvard Law School (HLS) from 1870 to 1895, Christopher C. Langdell (1826–1906) produced closely related works on contracts and sales that exercised great influence pedagogically and jurisprudentially. Pedagogically, the casebooks on contracts and sales introduced case method teaching into American legal education. In jurisprudential terms, these works placed Langdell with Frederick Pollock and Wil…
The Langdell Problem
Christopher Columbus Langdell (1826–1906) is arguably the most influential figure in the history of legal education in the United States, having shaped the modern law school by introducing a number of significant reforms during his tenure as dean of Harvard Law School (HLS) from 1870 to 1895. Langdell's innovations—including the admission requirement of a bachelor's degree, the graded and sequential curriculum, the hurdle of annual examinations f…
The Education for Those Who Are Free
The Origin of the Sabbath and its Legacy to the Modern Sabbatical
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBruce A. KimballBruce A. Kimball is a doctoral student in education, Harvard University
News of the Profession
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The Origin of the Sabbath and its Legacy to the Modern Sabbatical
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBruce A. KimballBruce A. Kimball is a doctoral student in education, Harvard University
Orators and Philosophers
Scholarly Means to Evangelical Ends
Scholarly Means of Evangelical Ends
The Historical and Cultural Dimensions of the Recent Reports on Undergraduate Education
The major points made in the recent reports on undergraduate education are analogous to the tenets of one of the two major traditions in the history of liberal education and to the central dilemmas concerning knowledge and culture now being discussed in the humanistic and social disciplines. The recent reports do not recognize these analogies, which point to the deeper implications of and important contradictions in their recommendations for unde…
The Education for Those Who Are Free
Law School
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBruce A. KimballBruce A. Kimball is assistant professor of education at the University of Rochester
Educating Republicans
Educating Republicans
Professions of Language and Reason The Vocation of a Teacher
Commitment to Higher Education
The "True Professional Ideal" in America
Banding Together
A Moral Art
The "True Professional Ideal" in America
The "True Professional Ideal" in America
Bruce A. Kimball attacks the widely held assumption that the idea of American professionalism arose from the proliferation of urban positions during the late nineteenth century. This first paperback edition of The True Professional Ideal in America argues that the ideal can be traced back to the colonial period. This comprehensive intellectual history illuminates the profound relationships between the idea of a professional and broader changes in…
Sociology
Creating the Cold War University
The Life of Langdell Has Not Been Logic; It Has Been Experience
William LaPiana has led the way in searching for, identifying, and examining new evidence about Langdell, so it is gratifying to learn that he is informed by my revisions of Langdell's bibliography, teaching schedule, and career chronology. LaPiana also affirms the significance of Langdell's early lectures on partnership and commercial paper, adding informative points both about Langdell's views and their possible influence on others. However, th…
Warn Students That I Entertain Heretical Opinions, Which They Are Not to Take as Law”
Christopher Columbus Langdell (1826–1906) was perhaps the most influential figure in the history of legal education in the United States. He shaped the modern law school by introducing a number of significant reforms during his tenure as dean of Harvard Law School (HLS) from 1870 to 1895. Indeed, Langdell may well be the most influential figure in the history of American professional education because he established at HLS, with the help of Presi…
When Holmes Borrowed from Langdell
Journal Article When Holmes Borrowed from Langdell: The “Ultra Legal” Formalism and Public Policy of Northern Securities (1904) Get access R. Blake Brown, R. Blake Brown Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bruce A. Kimball Bruce A. Kimball Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 45, Issue 3, July 2001, Pages 278–321, https://doi.org/10.…
The Highest Legal Ability in the Nation”
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Highest Legal Ability in the Nation
The Langdell Problem
Christopher Columbus Langdell (1826–1906) is arguably the most influential figure in the history of legal education in the United States, having shaped the modern law school by introducing a number of significant reforms during his tenure as dean of Harvard Law School (HLS) from 1870 to 1895. Langdell's innovations—including the admission requirement of a bachelor's degree, the graded and sequential curriculum, the hurdle of annual examinations f…
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