The Scottish Enlightenment and the American college ideal / [Douglas Sloan].

New York : Teachers College Press, Columbia University, [1971]

xi, 298 pages ; 24 cm.

The Scottish universities in the Enlightenment.--Log colleges, revivals, and the mother church of Scotland: the Presbyterian academy.--Old Side educator: Francis Alison.--The Scottish Enlightenment comes to Princeton: John Witherspoon.--Education, progress, and polygamy: Samuel Stanhope Smith.--From Nottingham Academy to the Edinburgh of America: Benjamin Rush.--Science, society, and the curriculum: conclusions.--Bibliography (p. [249]-280).--Appendix (p. 281-284): Presbyterian academies.