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Chapter 1 . Outline of the Present System of Education in New York . 34 Private schools 34
State educational systems 34
Department of public instruction or common-school system _ 34
School districts ... 34
Union free-school districts , 35
School commissioners 35
City public schools 35
State superintendent of public instruction 35
Chief executive powers of the State superintendent 35
Uniform examinations ... 36
Teachers' institutes 36
Academic teachers' classes 36
Normal schools . 37
Judicial powers of the State superintendent . 38
The superintendent of public instruction and the university 39
University of the State of New York, or the system of higher
education 39
University act of 1889 39
The university in form a private corporation 40
The university in fact a State bureau of higher education . . ._ 41
State control of the university. 42
Summary. State educational policy 43
Chapter 2. The Pounding op the University 44 Higher education in colonial times _ 44
King's College 46
New York at the close of the Revolution 48
Actof May 1, 1784 52
Amendatory act of November 26, 1784 54
Legislation, a compromise of parties 56
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Chapter 2. The Founding of the University — Continued. Page.
Predominance of Columbia College 57
Opposition to the Columbia monopoly 59
Struggle over the new law - . . - 60
Attempt of Columbia to reorganize the university 61
Popular attempt at reorganization 64
L'Hommedieu's bill and Hamilton's bill not the same _ . 68
Consolidation and compromise 73
Act of April 13, 1787 76
Hamilton or L'Hommedieu? 80
Chapters. An Era op Educational Revolution 81
University of the State of New York a revolution 81
The revolutionary idea not English 82
Contrast between the university and the English universities - . 83
The revolutionary idea in New York before 1784 84
-An era of educational revolution in America, 1776-1789 88
Georgia 88
North Carolina _ _ 88
Pennsylvania 89
Massachusetts 89
Virginia ... _ 89
Political revolution and educational revolution 90
The educational revolution in Europe .._ 91
France the nursery of the educational revolution 92
Debt of New York to France .. 96
The American State University 99
Chapter 4. A Century of University Work 100 University extension 102
The university's opportunity 105
A school for graduate work ... 105
An academy for the training of civil officers 107
General education in economics and politics 109
Bibliography Ill
Appendix :
Text of university laws, ordinances, and by-laws ._ 113
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