The Soul of the American University (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: George M. Marsden
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: The seventeenth century to the 1990’s; primarily the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Setting: United States
- Principal Characters: Henry P. Tappan, Andrew Dickson White, Noah Porter, Daniel Coit Gilman, James Burrill Angell, Charles Eliot, James McCosh, Francis Patton, Woodrow Wilson, William Rainey Harper, Robert Maynard Hutchins
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Discrimination, United States or Americans, Education or educators, Individuality, Christianity, Colleges or universities, Protestantism or Protestant churches
- Locales: United States
Late in 1994, as Scott Jaschik reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education (November 2, 1994), the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that will test current policies regarding church-state separation at public universities. In 1991, Wide Awake, a student-run newspaper with a Christian orientation, founded at the University of Virginia in the previous year, applied to the university for student-activity funding. The university denied the request on the grounds of church-state separation. As a result, the paper sued the university. In 1993, a federal district court...
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