| For some time now the general reader and the professional historian have had greater access to the history of almost any skirmish of the Civil War than they have had to the history of education in the United States. This book is intended in some way to redress the balance, as far as the American experience with higher education is concerned. I have not attempted a definitive history of higher educa- tion, which might be loosely defined as education beyond the level of the high school or its equivalent. As worthwhile and as necessary as such a proiect may be, it would require schol- arly explorations of a sort that no individual could make alone. The universities themselves have not yet created the body of historical literature from which a multivolume and definitive work might be written. I have therefore attempted only togive some sense of the historical understanding which is nowpossible. I am aware of the shortcomings of any study that proposesto encompass in time, physical area, and numbers what is sug-gested by my subject. Conscious of the need for compression,even of mnission, I have not made of this book a history ofthe life of the mind in the United States, nor have I in anyfundamental way approached tile large question of tile role offormal agencies of higher education in creating and shaping |
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