Harold S Wechsler
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 391970 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Harold S Wechsler |
| PRENOMES | Harold S |
| SOBRENOME | Wechsler |
| ASSINATURA | WECHSLER H S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | New York University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Brewing bachelors
Locating denominational colleges and state and land grant universities away from major American cities created a growing need for urban higher education institutions in the early twentieth century. Religious denominations, municipal authorities, and entrepreneurs opened colleges and professional schools in many US cities to meet the demand. The proprietary New Jersey Law School – opened in 1908 – added other divisions, shifted to non‐profit statu…
How Getting into College Led Me to Study the History of Getting into College
I decided to study the history of American higher education shortly after May 1, 1968. Early that morning, over a thousand New York City police officers had cleared the Columbia University campus of demonstrators and the occupants of five university buildings. Upwards of 800 were arrested; perhaps the same number of students, faculty, and police needed medical attention. The next afternoon, the leaders of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) g…
One-Third of a Campus
It was confusing to him. He was in a world which had a set of rules all its own. He knew the other rules—the rules of his own world. But these were different. Men actually lived their four years away at the University, and sent children after them. It was a wild, improbable thing to have fallen into, and the day student looked at his fellows, could distinguish them no differences among them at first, and felt lost. His evenings were spent in the …
Jewish Learning in American Universities
Jewish Learning in American Universities
European Background and the American Setting II. Reforming the Universities: Presidents, Providers, and Philology III. Scholars: Communal and Academic Norms IV. The Price of Admission V. The Quest for Recognition at Harvard VI. From Universalism to Pluralism VII. OThe Most Available and Suitable ManO: ColumbiaOs Miller Chair and Salo Baron VIII. Tragedy, Triumph, and Jewish Scholarship: Post-War Curricular Developments IX. Growth and Survival Not…
Joining the Club
The Rationale for Restriction
LATE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, WILLIAM BARCLAY PARSONS, HEAD OF A major New York City engineering firm and a trustee of Columbia University, helped design a subway to run up the West Side of Manhattan. While the line served a general public purpose by facilitating the West Side's intensive development, it also proved salutary to Columbia, which had moved its campus to that part of town a few years earlier. The subway made the University convenie…
Jewish Learning in American Universities
Journal Article JEWISH LEARNING IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES: THE LITERATURE OF A FIELD Get access Harold S. Wechsler, Harold S. Wechsler CITY COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Paul Ritterband Paul Ritterband CITY COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, V…
The First Student Movement
Journal Article The First Student Movement: Student Activism in the United States during the 1930s. By Ralph S. Brax. (Port Washington: Kennikat, 1981. v + 121 pp. Bibliography and index. $17.50.) Get access Harold S. Wechsler Harold S. Wechsler University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 4, March 1982, Page 979, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900853 Publis…
The Discriminating Ivy League
From Practice to Theory
The Primary Journal for Secondary Education, 1893-1938
The American University as Gatekeeper
Jewish Learning in American Universities
The Rationale for Restriction
LATE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, WILLIAM BARCLAY PARSONS, HEAD OF A major New York City engineering firm and a trustee of Columbia University, helped design a subway to run up the West Side of Manhattan. While the line served a general public purpose by facilitating the West Side's intensive development, it also proved salutary to Columbia, which had moved its campus to that part of town a few years earlier. The subway made the University convenie…
One-Third of a Campus
It was confusing to him. He was in a world which had a set of rules all its own. He knew the other rules—the rules of his own world. But these were different. Men actually lived their four years away at the University, and sent children after them. It was a wild, improbable thing to have fallen into, and the day student looked at his fellows, could distinguish them no differences among them at first, and felt lost. His evenings were spent in the …
The American University as Gatekeeper
The Primary Journal for Secondary Education, 1893-1938
From Practice to Theory
The First Student Movement
Journal Article The First Student Movement: Student Activism in the United States during the 1930s. By Ralph S. Brax. (Port Washington: Kennikat, 1981. v + 121 pp. Bibliography and index. $17.50.) Get access Harold S. Wechsler Harold S. Wechsler University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 4, March 1982, Page 979, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900853 Publis…
The Discriminating Ivy League
Jewish Learning in American Universities
Journal Article JEWISH LEARNING IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES: THE LITERATURE OF A FIELD Get access Harold S. Wechsler, Harold S. Wechsler CITY COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Paul Ritterband Paul Ritterband CITY COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, V…
The Rationale for Restriction
LATE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, WILLIAM BARCLAY PARSONS, HEAD OF A major New York City engineering firm and a trustee of Columbia University, helped design a subway to run up the West Side of Manhattan. While the line served a general public purpose by facilitating the West Side's intensive development, it also proved salutary to Columbia, which had moved its campus to that part of town a few years earlier. The subway made the University convenie…
Joining the Club
Jewish Learning in American Universities
European Background and the American Setting II. Reforming the Universities: Presidents, Providers, and Philology III. Scholars: Communal and Academic Norms IV. The Price of Admission V. The Quest for Recognition at Harvard VI. From Universalism to Pluralism VII. OThe Most Available and Suitable ManO: ColumbiaOs Miller Chair and Salo Baron VIII. Tragedy, Triumph, and Jewish Scholarship: Post-War Curricular Developments IX. Growth and Survival Not…
Jewish Learning in American Universities
One-Third of a Campus
It was confusing to him. He was in a world which had a set of rules all its own. He knew the other rules—the rules of his own world. But these were different. Men actually lived their four years away at the University, and sent children after them. It was a wild, improbable thing to have fallen into, and the day student looked at his fellows, could distinguish them no differences among them at first, and felt lost. His evenings were spent in the …
How Getting into College Led Me to Study the History of Getting into College
I decided to study the history of American higher education shortly after May 1, 1968. Early that morning, over a thousand New York City police officers had cleared the Columbia University campus of demonstrators and the occupants of five university buildings. Upwards of 800 were arrested; perhaps the same number of students, faculty, and police needed medical attention. The next afternoon, the leaders of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) g…
Brewing bachelors
Locating denominational colleges and state and land grant universities away from major American cities created a growing need for urban higher education institutions in the early twentieth century. Religious denominations, municipal authorities, and entrepreneurs opened colleges and professional schools in many US cities to meet the demand. The proprietary New Jersey Law School – opened in 1908 – added other divisions, shifted to non‐profit statu…
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