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19088. Berdahl, Robert O.. British universities and the state. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1959, viii, 229pp. 24 cm, very good sewn paper wraps, but ex-private library, with Ford Foundation Library stamp on cover and half-title, call number in ink on spine, a few minor pencil marks in margins, $20
University of California publications in political science, vol. 7. Based on thesis, University of California.


6734. Brandt, Leo, (contributor). Wissenschaft in Not. Leo Brandt, Ulrich Scheuner, Eugen Flegler, Siegfried Sturgger. Köln, Westdeutscher Verlag, 1957, 73pp., very good sewn paper wraps, $15
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Sonderheft.


22209. Burgess, John W., 1844-1931. Reminiscences of an American scholar. The beginnings of Columbia university. With a foreword by Nicholas Murray Butler. New York, Columbia university press, 1934, viii, 430pp. front. (port.) 23 cm, very good brown cloth, $28
Includes: "The later years, 1898-1931, by Nicholas Murray Butler" and two lectures held by Burgess in Germany: Inaugural address as first Roosevelt Professor, University of Berliin, Oct. 1906 - Address at the Hall of the Staatswissenschaftliche Vorbildung in Cologne, Dec. 1906. A long chapter deals with Burgess' experience of student life in Germany and the Roosevelt Professorship in Berlin.


20475. Caesar, Terry. Conspiring with Forms. Life in Academic Texts. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1992, 186pp., large PAPERBACK, $9
Essays on realities of academic life: applications, recommendations, the MLA, affirmative action, the dissertation, and "teaching at a second-rate university.".


17337. Cahn, Steven M.. Saints and scamps: ethics in academia. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1986, xii, 112pp., 23 cm, PAPERBACK, very good, $4
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28207. Coing, Helmut, et al. Wissenschaftsgeschichte seit 1900 : 75 Jahre Universität Frankfurt. Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp, 1992, Erstausgabe, 142pp., small PAPERBACK, very good, $13
Suhrkamp Taschenbuch ; 2150. Lectures given at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität zu Frankfurt, during the winter semester 1989-1990. Contributors include Coing, Lothar Gall, Jürgen Habermas, Hutbert Markl, Wolfgang J. Mommsen.


4671. Earnest, Ernest. Academic Procession: An Informal History of the American College (1936-1953). Indianapolis, NY: Bobbs-Merrill, 1953, stated First Edition, 368pp., good dust-jacket, but chipped at top of spine, very good brown cloth, $15
In this book a Temple University professor evokes the continuing conflict between the proponents of the traditional "classical" education and those who demand an education designed to fit the student for holding a job immediately upon graduation. More broadly, it examines the significant role of colleges contextualized in American social history.


8735. Gauss, Christian Frederick. The papers of Christian Gauss. New York: Random House, 1957, stated First Printing, 373p. illus. 24cm., very good gray cloth, $7.5
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14710. Harvard University. Harvard almanac. A Report to alumni and Friends of Harvard and Radcliffe. Cambridge, Harvard University, 1975, 53pp., very good stapled paper wraps with cover photograph of Harvard from the river, $15
Includes reports by the Deans.


16155. Harvard University. The Harvard University catalogue, November 1938. Cambridge: Published by the University, 1148pp., very good red cloth, $25
Lists faculty, students, students categorized by graduate school, programs of instruction and instructor, residential houses and tutors.


17024. Hook, Sidney, 1902-1989. Academic freedom and academic anarchy. New York: Cowles Book Co., 1970, stated First Edition, xviii, 269pp. 22 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good cloth, previous owner's name: Israel Scheffler, $15
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17023. Hook, Sidney, 1902-1989, ed. The University and the state: what role for government in higher education?. Edited by Sidney Hook, Paul Kurtz, Miro Todorovich. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, [1978], ix, 296pp., 23 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good half-cloth, previous owner's name, $12
"Originally delivered at the fourth general meeting of University Centers for Rational Alternatives, held at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. in December, 1976. Contributors include Chester Finn, ARthur G. Powerll, James A. Norton, Kenneth Tollett, Robert F. Sasseen, Martin Kramer, Richard A. Lester, Donald Hornig, Carol van Alstyne, Charles M. Chambers, Robert C. Andringa, William J. McGill, Allan Bloom, George W. Bonham, Robert H. Bork, Edward Shils, John R. Searle, Robert A. Goldwin, Charles Baxzerman, Sidney Hook, Fred Baumann, Eli Spark, David S. Lichtenstein, Miro M. Todorovich, Henry R. Novotny, Paul Kurtz.


25419. Kinnear, Duncan Lyle. The first 100 years; a history of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Blacksburg, Virginia Polytechnic Institute Educational Foundation, 1972, xiv, 498pp., very good large red cloth, SIGNED by the author: best wishes, Lyle Kinnear. $45
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3378. Lindsay, Julian Ira. Tradition Looks Forward: The University of Vermont: A History. Burlington, VT: The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, 1954, 286pp., very good green cloth, SIGNED by author on half-title. $25
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21428. Lodge, David, 1935-. Small World. An Academic Romance. NY: Warner Books, 1986, 385pp., small PAPERBACK, very good used copy, $2
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14716. Neilson, William Allan, 1869-1946. Intellectual honesty, and other addresses, being mainly chapel talks at Smith college. Litchfield, Conn., The Prospect press, 1940, xi, 134pp. 21 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good gray cloth, newspaper clipping about Neilson laid in, $15
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16592. Neilson, William Allan, 1869-1946. Blueprint for Biography. Northampton, Mass.: The Hampshire Bookshop, 1947, 70pp., very good small brown cloth, frontispiece portrait of Neilson, $12
Essays by Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, Marjorie Hope Nicolson, Theodore Spencer (Memoir of the Tavern Club of Cambridge).


2732. Neilson, William Allan, 1869-1946. Intellectual honesty and other addresses, being mainly chapel talks at Smith college. Northampton: The Hampshire Bookshop, 1956, 122pp., worn dust-jacket with a few tears, good green half cloth and green boards, $11
First published in 1940.


3410. Nollen, John S.. Grinnell College. Iowa: City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1953, xi, 283pp. , [9]pp. of plates: ill.. 25 cm., very good red cloth, previous owner's stamp, $18
History of the small college in Iowa, founded in 1846.


6735. Raiser, Ludwig. Die Aufgaben des Wissenschaftsrates. Köln: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1963, 60pp., white paper wraps, $20
German research no longer world-class, a problem for reformers already in the early 1960s. Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Heft 111, includes discussion.


24240. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn / The University of Bonn. Redaktion: Werner Besch, Dorothea Carr, Richard Müller. Bonn: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, 1993, 2. Auflage, 247pp., beautiful large illustrated hardcover, 25x25cm, Laid in: on stationery of the Rektor and signed by Max Huber, letter presenting the book to Victor Weisskopf and wife, on occasion of the meeting of the Orden Pour le Mérite., two tears in paper. $45
Parallel texts in German and English giving the history and structure of the university.


9099. Roszak, Theodore. The dissenting academy. New York: Pantheon Books, 1968, stated First Printing, x, 304pp. 22 cm., dust-jacket with minor wear, very good blue cloth, previous owner's name, $12
On academic delinquency, by T. Roszak.--The scandal of literary scholarship, by L. Kampf.--Keynes without gadflies, by S. M. Rosen.--Historical past and existential present, by S. Lynd.--The new American mandarins, by M. Windmiller.--World revolution and the science of man, by K. Gough.--The civilization of the dialogue, by J. Wilkinson.--Social science and social consciousness: the shame of the universities, by R. Engler.--The cheerful science of dismal politics, by C. Bay.--From the groves of Salamanca ... to the shores of Tripoli, by G. C. Zahn.--The responsibility of intellectuals, by N. Chomsky.


28044. Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, hrsg. Die Geschichte der Universität Heidelberg : Vorträge im Wintersemester 1985/86. Heidelberg : Heidelberger Verlagsanstalt, 1986, 247 p. ; 21 cm., PAPERBACK, very good, $30
Universitätsgründung an der Wende zum 15. Jahrhundert / Jürgen Miethke -- Vom "Dritten Genf" zur Jesuiten-Universität / Notker Hammerstein -- Hof, Stadt und Territorium / Volker Press -- Die wirtschaftlichen Grundlagen der Universität Heidelberg / Peter Moraw -- Die Selbstdarstellung von Universitäten in Zentenarfeiern / Werner Conze -- Von Bunsen zu Jensen / Reinhard Neumann -- Akademische Politik und Staatswissenschaft in Heidelberg / Hans Maier -- Die Medizin im Heidelberg der Jahrhundertwende / Heinrich Schipperges -- Erinnerungen an die Zwanziger Jahre in Heidelberg / Dolf Sternberger -- Die Universität Heidelberg im Dritten Reich / Eike Wolgast -- Die Universität Heidelberg in der Geschichte der Gegenwart 1945-1985 / Volker Sellin -- Die deutsche Universität an der Schwelle zum dritten Jahrtausend / Ralf Dahrendorf.


2686. Shuster, George N.. The Ground I Walked On. Reflections of a College President. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961, stated First Printing, 256 p. 22 cm., worn dust-jacket with a few tears, light gray half-cloth, dark gray boards, $12
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21406. Sloman, Albert E.. A university in the making. New York, Oxford University Press, 1964, 90pp. plans. 20 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good small black cloth, $12
The B.B.C. Reith lectures, 1963.


4950. Stewart, George R.. The Year of the Oath: the Fight for Academic Freedom at the University of California. written "in collaboration with other professors at the University of California". Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950, stated First Edition, 156pp., good dust-jacket, chipped at top of spine, and with a couple of closed tears, some wear, very good blue cloth, $24
Newspaper review clipping by Sidney Hook laid in.


15407. Tortarolo, Edoardo / Charle, Christoph / Diesener, Gerald / Middell, Matthias / Gebhardt, Christiane / Giesecke, Susanne / Hofbauer, Hannes. Wissenschaftsstandorte / Jg. 7, Heft 3 (1997) der Zeitschrift: Comparativ. Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 1997, 156pp., PAPERBACK, very good, $11
Tortarolo, Edoardo, Historisches Wissen und politische Modelle (18.Jhdt) - Charle, Christoph, Paris als Wissenschaftshauptstadt (19. Jhdt) - Diesener, Gerald / Middell, Matthias, Leipzig als Standort 1880-1914 - Gebhardt, Christiane / Giesecke, Susanne, Biotechnologie, AI - Hofbauer, Hannes / Viorel, Roman, Imperium und Limes. Zur Geschichte europ. Teilungen - Baga, Eniko, Rumäniens Sonderweg in Mitteleuropa.


6663. Wissenschaftsrat. Anregungen des Wissenschaftsrates zur Gestalt neuer Hochschulen. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 90pp., PAPERBACK, stains on front cover, $25
Report and proposals for reforming German universities and founding new ones in the 1960s.