"Fifty years later, the ideas Veysey developed in two years of
white-hot scholarly intensity continue to shape our basic
understanding of academe."-- "Chronicle of Higher Education"
"This magisterial book carved such a wide swath of intellectual
real estate when it came out in 1965 that few have dared to follow
its path. Veysey wrote this book during the free-spending,
post-Sputnik heyday of American higher education, when government
investment in students and institutions spurred growth unmatched
before or since in academe. Veysey looked closely and skeptically
at the conflicting ideas that were muzzled and muffled when
universities were founded at the turn of the century, and he showed
that those conflicts -- between utility and belletrism, between
research and teaching -- continued to smolder, and sometimes flare,
afterward. They still burn today, and that makes this brilliant
book as useful as it ever was."--Leonard Cassuto "Chronicle of
Higher Education"
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