Evan Pugh’s Penn State : : America’s Model Agricultural College / / Roger L. Williams.
When Evan Pugh became the first president of Pennsylvania’s Farmers’ High School—later to be known as The Pennsylvania State University—the small campus was in disrepair and in dire need of leadership. Pugh was young, barely into his 30s, but he was energetic, educated, and visionary. During his ten...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 27 illustrations/2 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- 1 Evan Pugh
- 2 Study in Germany and France, Research in England
- 3 A New School, a New President, a New Movement
- 4 Beginning the Presidency
- 5 The Institution Hits Its Stride
- 6 Pugh’s Standing in the American Scientific Community
- 7 Campaigning for the Morrill Land-Grant College Act
- 8 The Disruptions of 1863
- 9 The Battle Royal
- 10 Death and Aftermath
- 11 Epilogue
- Appendix A. Report upon a Plan for the Organization of Colleges for Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts with Especial Reference to the Organization of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index