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Delbanco explains how the idea of college arose in the colonial period from the Puritan idea of the gathered church, how it struggled to survive in the nineteenth century in the shadow of the new research universities, and how, in the twentieth century, it slowly opened its doors to women, minoritie... Full description
Table of Contents:
- What is college for?
- Origins
- From college to university
- Who went? Who goes? Who pays?
- Brave new world
- What is to be done?