This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...history, political economy, and the science of government and administration. The University of Virginia, which evolved from old William and Mary by a process of historical evolution, represented, from its very begiuning, the true uuiversity spirit and very advanced methods of teaching by lectures. It commanded some of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...history, political economy, and the science of government and administration. The University of Virginia, which evolved from old William and Mary by a process of historical evolution, represented, from its very begiuning, the true uuiversity spirit and very advanced methods of teaching by lectures. It commanded some of the best professorial talent which this country has ever seen, for Jefferson, acting upon an idea derived from his Geneva project, secured the services of highly distinguished teachers from Europe, notably George Long, tho historian of Rome. Nevertheless, Virginia failed to draw any considerable number of stndents from tho North. It is easy to suggest explanations of this general fact. It may bo accounted for by a variety of causes, such as climate, tho existence of excellent schools and colleges at the North, the difficulty and expense of travel, preference for denominational institutions, social and political differences; but undeniably there was more or less of provincialism and a decided sectionalism in American college education, North and South. There was no help for it. Washington's great scheme for a national university in the Federal City had come to naught. There was no choice for American youth except to follow obediently in the tracks of local prejudice in which their fathers had trod. With due allowance for exceptions, it may be truly said that education kept within the lines which politics had drawn. Northern stndents rarely came south; and southerners, if they went north to college, remained southern in spirit. The College of William and Mary nevertheless continued to enlarge its inf tience, chiefly within southern borders, although many of her graduates acquired a national reputation in public life. It is forcibly said by a wr...
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