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Liberal Education and the Graduate Schools: An Historical View of College Reform

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Jurgen Herbst
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In a recent publication of Columbia Teachers College's Institute of Higher Education, Earl J. McGrath charges that graduate education “has had a direct and profound, and on balance a harmful, effect on liberal education and the institutions society believes it has established to provide such education.” That the emerging graduate schools did exert a direct and profound effect on the American undergraduate college of the late nineteenth century, nobody will deny. That the effect has been “on balance” harmful, I believe, is open to questions.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , December 1962 , pp. 244 - 258
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Copyright © 1962, University of Pittsburgh Press 

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