Geiger, Roger L. The American College in the Nineteenth Century. 1st ed. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000.Introduction : new themes in the history of nineteenth-century colleges / Roger L. Geiger -- Curriculum and enrollment : assessing the popularity of antebellum colleges / David B. Potts -- The rights of man and the rites of youth : fraternity and riot at eighteenth-century Harvard / Leon Jackson -- College as it was in the mid-nineteenth century / Roger L. Geiger with Julie Ann Bubolz -- "We desired our future rulers to be educated men" : South Caroline College, the defense of slavery, and the development of secessionist politics / Michael Sugrue -- Agency, denominations, and the western colleges, 1830-1860 : some connections between evangelicalism and American higher education / James Findlay -- The era of multipurpose colleges in American higher education, 1850-1890 -- Roger L. Geiger -- The rise and fall of useful knowledge : higher education for science, agriculture, and the mechanic arts, 1850-1875 / Roger L. Geiger -- "A salutary rivalry" : the growth of higher education for women in Oxford, Ohio, 1855-1867 / Margaret A. Nash -- The "superior instruction of women," 1836-1890 / Roger L. Geiger -- Noah Porter writ large? : reflections on the modernization of American higher education and its critics, 1866-1916 / Peter Dobkin Hall -- The German model and the graduate school : the University of Michigan and the origin myth of the American university / James Turner and Paul Bernard -- A "curious working of cross purposes" in the founding of the University of Chicago / Willard J. Pugh -- The crisis of the old order : the colleges in the 1890s -- Roger L. Geiger.