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9780826591685

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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.

In 1875 the University offered its campus and degree-granting authority to the first normal school in the state of Tennessee, a school funded by the Peabody Education Fund. The Peabody Normal College was the best in the South, and, as such, exerted an enormous influence on education in the region.

A new era began in 1909. The trustees of the Peabody Fund, at its liquidation, provided an eventual $1.5 million to establish a graduate-level George Peabody College for Teachers. It opened for classes in 1914, on its present campus, where it quickly became the premier teachers' college in the South. As was the case with many private, independent institutions, Peabody faced intermittent financial struggles, which finally ended with its union with Vanderbilt. Today Peabody is, by almost any criteria, one of the five or six strongest colleges of education in the United States.

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Publié par

Vanderbilt University Press

Date de parution

01 novembre 2002

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780826591685

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

5 Mo

P E A B O D Y C O L L E G E

PEABODY COLLEGE From a Frontier Academy to the Frontiers of Teaching and Learningc c c

P A U L K . C O N K I N

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This book is printed on acid-free paper. Manufactured in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Conkin, Paul Keith. Peabody College : from a frontier academy to the frontiers of teaching and learning / Paul K. Conkin.— 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.  (cloth : alk. paper) University. George Peabody. Vanderbilt College for Teachers. I. Title. LB.Nc  .’—dc 

I dedicate this book to the corps of Peabody-trained teachers. From the ﬁrst thirteen young women who enrolled in a new State Normal College in December to the present, thousands of women and men, teachers or prospective teachers, have come to Peabody to gain needed skills in their chosen calling. They have eschewed wealth or the lofty status that too often attaches to high incomes. They have left education, but with a hightened idealism and a stronger commitment to a life of service. More than anyone else, they embody the Peabody ideal.

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Preface and Acknowledgments

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O N E Davidson Academy and Cumberland College Beginnings Presbyterianism and Classical Academies Financing and Governing Davidson Academy Cumberland College The Revival of Cumberland College

T WO The Educational Mission of Philip Lindsley Lindsley and the College of New Jersey Building the University of Nashville What a Great University Entails Lindsley as Citizen and Clergyman

T H R E E Princeton West Academic Culture Faculty Students Financial Problems The Sad End Game

F O U R Crisis Years for the University of Nashville, ‒  John Berrien Lindsley and the University of Nashville Medical Department The Literary Department and the Western Military Institute The University of Nashville during the Civil War Montgomery Bell Academy

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F I V E The State Normal College of Tennessee, ‒  George Peabody and His Fund The Normal School Movement A Normal College for Nashville The Trials and Tribulations of President Eben Stearns The Crisis of  The Final Years under Stearns

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S I X Peabody Normal College,‒ William Payne’s Early Career Academic Reform Payne’s Art and Science of Teaching The Wonderful Students The Final Years under William Payne The Benign Presidency of Governor Porter

S E V E N The Long and Painful Birth of George Peabody College for Teachers, ‒ Early Conspiracies The Commitment to Nashville Legal Complications The Controversy over Location

E I G H T Creating the George Peabody Campus,‒  The Governing Board and a New Campus The Second Payne The Great Campaign of  Designing the Campus Conﬂict with Vanderbilt Completing the Campus The Peabody Education Program

N I N E The Academic Side, ‒  Dual Missions Service and Democracy Academic Policies The Early Faculty The Great Summer School The Vanderbilt Connection Knapp Farm New Schools and New Programs Unclear Missions

T E N Depression and War, ‒  The Great Depression at Peabody New Strategies of Governance Money Problems Shifts in Faculty The Policies of President Sidney C. Garrison Joint University Libraries World War II and Peabody

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E L E V E N The Peabody of Henry H. Hill Henry Harrison Hill Self Studies and Reviews The Boom Years Racial Integration The Faculty Peabody Abroad Retrenchment

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