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The False Dawn of the State University

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Merle Borrowman
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In the state university, Henry Pritchett once claimed, we find, “a conception of education from the standpoint of a whole people.…” If, he continued, “our American democracy were today called to give proof of its constructive ability, the State University and the public school which it crowns would be the strongest evidence of its fitness which it could offer.”

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Research Article
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , June 1961 , pp. 6 - 22
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Copyright © 1961, University of Pittsburgh Press 

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Notes

1. Quoted in Adams, Charles K., State Aid to Higher Education: An Address Delivered at the Twenty-Second Anniversary of The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, 1898).Google Scholar

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