id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15904 Shiflett, Lee Clark, William. Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 662p. alk. paper, $45 (ISBN 0226109216). LC 2005-15152. 2007-11-01 4 .pdf application/pdf 2539 113 52 American colleges had developed a curriculum that inexorably led from the basic introductory classes to the culminat- ing class in moral philosophy in which the president of the college demonstrated inevitably that all of human knowledge leads to whatever dogma were pro- pounded by the protestant denomina- tion controlling the college. But the advanced training offered by American colleges was desultory at best, and it was not until the founding of the Johns Hopkins University in 1876 and the establishment of the University of Chi- cago in 1890 that true advanced education became available in the United States. cache/crl-15904.pdf txt/crl-15904.txt