The rise of the research university : a sourcebook / edited by Louis Menand, Paul Reitter, and Chad Wellmon.

Some texts translated from German originals.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

German research universities. Report to King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Germany / Friedrich Gedike -- On the importance of Protestant universities in Germany / Johann David Michaelis -- What is universal history and why study it? An inaugural academic lecture / Friedrich Schiller -- Occasional thoughts on German universities in the German sense / Friedrich Schleiermacher -- A plan, deduced from first principles, for an institution of higher learning to be established in Berlin, connected to and subordinate to an academy of sciences / J. G. Fichte -- Lectures on the method of academic study / F. W. J. Schelling -- On Germany's educational system / Wilhelm von Humboldt -- Americans abroad and returning. Letters to Thomas Jefferson and Edward Everett / George Ticknor and George Bancroft -- American colleges and German universities / Richard Theodore Ely -- On German universities / Henry Tappan -- German universities: a narrative of personal experience / James M. Hart -- American adaptations. The Morrill Act -- The utility of universities / Daniel Coit Gilman -- Opening exercises / G. Stanley Hall -- The relations of the national and state governments to advanced education / Andrew D. White -- The university and democracy / William Rainey Harper -- Undergraduate education in the university. The new education / Charles William Eliot -- Inaugural address / Noah Porter -- Liberty in education / Charles William Eliot -- The new departure in college education, being a reply to president Eliot's defence of it / James McCosh -- On the future of our educational institutions / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Diversity and inclusion: female university students. Diversity and inclusion: introduction -- Higher schools for girls and their mission: companion essay / Helene Lange -- Women at the German universities: letters to the editor of the nation / J.B.S. and M.F.K -- Decree on the admission of women to universities -- General education. General education: introduction -- Editorial: a focus for freshmen / Charles Sears Baldwin -- The new freshman course in Columbia College / John J. Coss -- General education / Robert Maynard Hutchins -- The higher learning in a democracy / Harry D. Gideonse.