First True American University?

I've been looking for the source of this quote.This course description in Cornell's History Department attributes it to Frederick Rudolf. In fact,the course title is "The First American University."

But I searched Rudolf's opus, American College and University: A History, not only for the phrase, but also for just "first," and came up with nothing.Rudolph is very complementary to Cornell and credits it with pioneering things like coeducation and dormitories. But I could not find the specific phrase. Perhaps he used it elswhere.

Do any of you know the exact source?

Swampy
I've been looking for the source of this quote.This course description in Cornell's History Department attributes it to Frederick Rudolf. In fact,the course title is "The First American University."

But I searched Rudolf's opus, American College and University: A History, not only for the phrase, but also for just "first," and came up with nothing.Rudolph is very complementary to Cornell and credits it with pioneering things like coeducation and dormitories. But I could not find the specific phrase. Perhaps he used it elswhere.

Do any of you know the exact source?

Curious, I Googled the phrase "First True American University". One reference attributes the designation to Morris Bishop. Other institutions claiming to be the first true American university include Johns Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania, William and Mary, and Yale.

David Harding

Swampy
I've been looking for the source of this quote.This course description in Cornell's History Department attributes it to Frederick Rudolf. In fact,the course title is "The First American University."

But I searched Rudolf's opus, American College and University: A History, not only for the phrase, but also for just "first," and came up with nothing.Rudolph is very complementary to Cornell and credits it with pioneering things like coeducation and dormitories. But I could not find the specific phrase. Perhaps he used it elswhere.

Do any of you know the exact source?

Curious, I Googled the phrase "First True American University". One reference attributes the designation to Morris Bishop. Other institutions claiming to be the first true American university include Johns Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania, William and Mary, and Yale.

Yeah, I thought it was Bishop too until I read the course description for HIST 2005. (But I can't find the quote in Bishop's History of Cornell either.)

Best quote from Rudolph, referring to a time shortly after Cornell's founding:

"Before long alarums and fright would overtake many of the old institutions, for which Cornell became a reincarnation of the devil itself." Still is, to some.

Rudolph's book is a really good read.

the first true american university is an unaccredited internet school that has no job placement office but a staff of two dozen to help applicants apply for student loans

ugarte
the first true american university is an unaccredited internet school that has no job placement office but a staff of two dozen to help applicants apply for student loans

Courses of study include open carry and applied smallpox.