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Book SynopsisOne of the most remarkable education leaders of the late nineteenth century and the creator of the modern American research university finally gets his due. Daniel Coit Gilman, a Yale-trained geographer who first worked as librarian at his alma mater, led a truly remarkable life. He was selected as the third president of the University of California; was elected as the first president of Johns Hopkins University, where he served for twenty-five years; served as one of the original founders of the Association of American Universities; andat an age when most retiredwas hand-picked by Andrew Carnegie to head up his eponymous institution in Washington, DC. In Daniel Coit Gilman and the Birth of the American Research University, Michael T. Benson argues that Gilman's enduring legacy will always be as the father of the modern research universitya uniquely American invention that remains the envy of the entire world. In the past half-century, nothing has been written about Gilman that tak
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Yale and the Life-Giving Springs of New Haven
Chapter 2. The House of Our Expectations in California
Chapter 3. The Three Great Advisers
Chapter 4. Gilman the Recruiter
Chapter 5. Launching Our Bark upon the Patapsco
Chapter 6. Advancing Knowledge Far and Wide
Chapter 7. The Slater Fund and Attempts to Integrate Hopkins
Chapter 8. Allies, Not Rivals
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index
