The Death of the Liberal Arts College
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9886048 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Axtell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 339 |
| Publication date | 1971-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Education Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2680 • E-ISSN: 1748-5959 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/367034 |
| OpenAlex | W2049710948 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 1 |
Washington, D.C., 2 July 1862. The American Liberal Arts College died today after a prolonged illness. It was 226 years old. Born on the salty backwashes of the Charles River in Cambridge shortly after the Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded, the scion of Puritan Reform and Renaissance Civility grew to sturdy usefulness in the colonial years by overseeing America's leaders prior to their war for independence. When the new nation emerged, however, demanding a larger, more expert citizenry, The College was unable to overcome its aristocratic origins and shortly contracted the disease that eventually led to its demise arteriosclerosis. In the 1820s, when Jacksonian Democracy was urging needed reforms on American Institutions, The College's role in society contracted into a stance of pugnacious conservatism with the Yale Report of 1828. Even a number of its own reform-minded members could not edge it into the American Mainstream of Technological Growth and Democratic Expansion. Today, after a recent cardiac arrest, its heart stopped on the floor of the House of Representatives, just as the roll call for Justin Morrill's Land-Grant Act had ended. The vote was 90-25
Higher education · Liberal arts education · Liberal education · Political science · Sociology · The arts · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · Law
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1973 - 2017 (45) |
| Highly cited | No |