The writers included in these volumes provide the first insights into the change from the old system of classical learning to modern knowledge as a pursuit for its own sake.Contents:The Idea of a University, Defined and Illustrated [1873] John Henry Newman 549 pp Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St. Andrews [1867] John Stuart Mill 106 pp On the Principles of English University Education [1838] William Whewell 186 pp A Discourse on the Studies of the University [1833] Adam Sedgwick 328 pp Professor Sedgwick's Discourse on the Studies of the University [1835] John Stuart Mill 64 pp University Education [1851] Henry Philip Tappan 120 pp German Universities: A Narrative of Personal Experience Together with Recent Statistical Information, Practical Suggestions, and a Comparison of the German, English and American Systems of Higher Education [1874] James Morgan Hart 405 pp