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Evan Pugh's Penn State:

America's Model Agricultural College
  • ISBN-13: 9780271080178
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Roger L. Williams
  • Price: AUD $97.99
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2018
  • Format: Hardback 272 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Education [JN]
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Explores the contributions of Evan Pugh (1828-1864), founding president of today’s Pennsylvania State University, in quickly building it into America’s first scientifically based agricultural college.


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Preface

1. Evan Pugh: A Young Man Enamored of Science and Education

2. Study in Germany and France, Research in England

3. A New School, a New President, a New Movement

4. Beginning the Presidency

5. The Institution Hits Its Stride

6. Pugh’s Standing in the American Scientific Community

7. Campaigning for the Morrill Land-Grant College Act

8. The Disruptions of 1863

9. The Battle Royal

10. Death and Aftermath

11. Epilogue

Appendix A Report upon a Plan for the Organization of Colleges for Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts with Especial Reference to the Organization of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“An engaging and immensely readable biography of a figure important not only to the history of American agriculture, but to the modern shape of higher education in the US.”

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