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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Strong Men of the Academic Revolution
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Allmendinger, David F., Jr. – History of Education Quarterly, 1973
Nicholas Murray Butler, G. Stanley Hall, Charles W. Eliot, the respective subjects of three biographies reviewed here, were university presidents whose personal dominance has too often impeded the biographer in his task of objective historical inquiry. (JH)
Descriptors: Biographies, College Administration, Educational History, Higher Education
The Strangeness of the American Education Society: Indigent Students and the New Charity, 1815-1840
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Allmendinger, David F., Jr. – History of Education Quarterly, 1971
Financial aid to indigent students provided a source of personnel to staff pulpits of early New England churches. (RA)
Descriptors: College Students, Educational History, Scholarships, Student Loan Programs
New England Students and the Revolution in Higher Education, 1800-1900
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Allmendinger, David F., Jr. – History of Education Quarterly, 1971
Descriptors: College Students, Colleges, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change