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Conkin Front Matter p. i-xvi 8/12/02 4:22 PM Page i P E A B O D Y C O L L E G E Conkin Front Matter p. i-xvi 8/12/02 4:22 PM Page ii Conkin Front Matter p. i-xvi 8/12/02 4:22 PM Page iii PEABODY COLLEGE From a Frontier Academy to the Frontiers of Teaching and Learning c c c P A U L K . C O N K I N • Nashville Conkin Front Matter p. i-xvi 8/12/02 4:22 PM Page iv Copyright © Vanderbilt University Press All rights reserved First Edition This book is printed on acid-free paper. Manufactured in the United States ofAmerica Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Conkin, Paul Keith. Peabody College : from a frontier academy to the frontiers ofteaching and learning / Paul K. Conkin.— 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ---(cloth : alk. paper) . Vanderbilt University. George Peabody College for Teachers. I. Title. LB.Nc .’—dc Conkin Front Matter p. i-xvi 8/12/02 4:22 PM Page v I dedicate this book to the corps of Peabody-trained teachers. From the first thirteen young women who enrolled in a new State Normal College in December to the present, thousands of women and men, teachers or prospective teachers, have come to Peabody to gain needed skills in their chosen calling. They have eschewed wealth or the lofty status that too often attaches to high incomes. They have left education, but with a hightened idealism and a stronger commitment to a life of service. More than anyone else, they embody the Peabody ideal. Conkin Front Matter p. i-xvi 8/12/02 4:22 PM Page vi C o n t e n t s List of Illustrations xi ONE TWO Davidson Academy and The Educational Mission Preface and Cumberland College of Philip Lindsley Acknowledgments xiii Beginnings Lindsley and the College Presbyterianism and of New Jersey Classical Academies Building the University Financing and Governing of Nashville Davidson Academy What a Great University Cumberland College Entails The Revival of Lindsley as Citizen Cumberland College and Clergyman Conkin Front Matter p. i-xvi 8/12/02 4:22 PM Page vii vii Contents THREE FOUR FIVE Princeton West Crisis Years for the The State Normal College Academic Culture University of Nashville, of Tennessee, Faculty ‒ ‒ Students Financial Problems John Berrien Lindsley and George Peabody and His Fund The Sad End Game the University of Nashville The Normal School Movement Medical Department A Normal College for Nashville The Literary Department The Trials and Tribulations and the Western Military of President Eben Stearns Institute The Crisis of The University of Nashville The Final Years under Stearns during the Civil War Montgomery Bell Academy Conkin Front Matter p. i-xvi 8/12/02 4:23 PM Page viii viii Contents SIX SEVEN EIGHT Peabody Normal The Long and Painful Creating the College, ‒ Birth of George Peabody George Peabody William Payne’s College for Teachers, Campus, ‒ Early Career ‒ The Governing Board Academic Reform Early Conspiracies and a New Campus Payne’s Art and The Second Payne The Commitment Science of Teaching to Nashville The Great Campaign of The Wonderful Legal Complications Designing the Campus Students Conflict with Vanderbilt The Controversy The Final Years under over Location Completing the Campus William Payne The Peabody Education The Benign Presidency Program of Governor Porter Conkin Front Matter p. i-xvi 8/12/02 4:23 PM Page ix ix Contents NINE TEN ELEVEN The Academic Side, Depression and War, The Peabody of ‒ ‒ Henry H. Hill Dual Missions The Great Depression Henry Harrison Hill Service and Democracy at Peabody Self Studies and Reviews Academic Policies New Strategies of The Boom Years The Early Faculty Governance Racial Integration The Great Summer School Money Problems The Faculty The Vanderbilt Connection Shifts in Faculty Peabody Abroad Knapp Farm The Policies of President Retrenchment New Schools and Sidney C. Garrison New Programs Joint University Libraries Unclear Missions World War II and Peabody
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