Evan Pugh's Penn State America's model agricultural college
"Explores the contributions of Evan Pugh (1828-1864), founding president of today's Pennsylvania State University, in quickly building it into America's first scientifically based agricultural college"--Provided by publisher.
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Evan Pugh : a young man enamored of science and education
- Study in Germany and France, research in England
- A new school, a new president, a new movement
- Beginning the presidency
- The institution hits its stride
- Pugh's standing in the American scientific community
- Campaigning for the Morrill land-grant college act
- The disruptions of 1863
- The battle royal
- Death and aftermath
- Epilogue.
