Inaugural Address

Inaugural Address

Author: Jacob Bigelow

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-15

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780331107357

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Excerpt from Inaugural Address: Delivered in the Chapel of the University at Cambridge, December 11, 1816 The joint executors, M. Julius P. Benjamin Baron Delessert, and Daniel Parker, Esquire, m November next following the death of the Count, transmitted notice of his bequest, with an abstract of the will, to the American Ambassador, at Paris, who sent the same to the Corporation of the University, by whom the documents were received in August, 1815. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Capital of Mind

Capital of Mind

Author: Adam R. Nelson

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 0226829200

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"In the second volume of his planned trilogy that will recast the history of the university in a fresh and surprising light, Adam R. Nelson aims to show how knowledge, which had been commodified starting in the late eighteenth century, became industrialized in the nineteenth century. Nelson explains how the idea of the modern university arose from a set of institutional and ideological reforms designed to foster the mass production and mass consumption of knowledge--that is, the industrialization of ideas. Fusing the history of higher education with the history of capitalism, Nelson suggests that this "marketization" of knowledge propelled the institutionalization of the university, far earlier than previously understood"--