Peabody College: From a Frontier Academy to the Frontiers of Teaching and Learning
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0826514251
ISBN 13
9780826514257
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Publication Year
2002
Publisher
Pages
472
Subject
Vanderbilt University. George Peabody College for Teachers.
Abstract
Today George Peabody College is a part of Vanderbilt University, as it has been since its merger in 1979. Its prior history was rich and complex. In this book, Paul Conkin, author of the award-winning history of Vanderbilt, Gone with the Ivy, tells the story of Peabody's many lives, of its successes and failures, and of its many colorful leaders and professors.
It all began as a small frontier academy in 1785. The institution that would become Peabody experienced its first reinvention two decades later as it became Cumberland College, and then, in 1826, the University of Nashville. The University maintained an elite undergraduate college until 1850, and, despite the success of its medical school and a military institute, it failed in three subsequent efforts to restart its undergraduate program.
It all began as a small frontier academy in 1785. The institution that would become Peabody experienced its first reinvention two decades later as it became Cumberland College, and then, in 1826, the University of Nashville. The University maintained an elite undergraduate college until 1850, and, despite the success of its medical school and a military institute, it failed in three subsequent efforts to restart its undergraduate program.
Description
Contents:
Davidson Academy and Cumberland College -- The educational mission of Philip Lindsley -- Princeton West -- Crisis years for the University of Nashville, 1850-1875 -- The State Normal College of Tennessee, 1875-1887 -- Peabody Normal College, 1888-1911 -- The long and painful birth of George Peabody College for Teachers, 1897-1910 -- Creating the George Peabody campus, 1911-1930 -- The academic side, 1914-1930 -- Depression and war, 1930-1945 -- The Peabody of Henry H. Hill -- A troubled decade, 1961-1972 -- Merger -- Peabody as a Vanderbilt college.
Davidson Academy and Cumberland College -- The educational mission of Philip Lindsley -- Princeton West -- Crisis years for the University of Nashville, 1850-1875 -- The State Normal College of Tennessee, 1875-1887 -- Peabody Normal College, 1888-1911 -- The long and painful birth of George Peabody College for Teachers, 1897-1910 -- Creating the George Peabody campus, 1911-1930 -- The academic side, 1914-1930 -- Depression and war, 1930-1945 -- The Peabody of Henry H. Hill -- A troubled decade, 1961-1972 -- Merger -- Peabody as a Vanderbilt college.
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