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By Edgar Wallace Knight
Undergraduate work and the University of North Carolina
Knight, Edgar Wallace · 2005 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries
Edgar Wallace Knight's unpublished 1934 report on undergraduate education in American universities, written at the University of North Carolina. It traces how the American college curriculum moved from the classical European pattern toward more practical studies, and then examines the newer educational experiments of the early 1930s and what they meant for Chapel Hill. The original typescript carries pasted-in material on several pages. Electronic edition issued 2005 by the UNC Chapel Hill Libraries for Documenting the American South.
Undergraduate work and the University of North Carolina : a report on recent tendencies and present problems in undergraduate work in some American institutions of higher learning
Knight, Edgar Wallace, 1886-1953 · 1934
Edgar Wallace Knight (1886 to 1953) surveyed recent trends and current problems in undergraduate teaching at American colleges in this 1934 report, with the University of North Carolina at its center. The carbon copy typescript carries passages cut from other sources and pasted onto several leaves. Topics include curriculum change, the aims of higher education, and students at Chapel Hill.
Heaven's blessings attend her
Knight, Edgar Wallace, 1886-1953 · 1932 · Society for the Advancement of Education
Edgar Wallace Knight wrote this short piece on the University of North Carolina and Chapel Hill, originally printed in School and Society, volume 36, number 929, October 15, 1932. The Society for the Advancement of Education reissued it in New York that year, set in two columns.
Edgar Wallace Knight papers, 1915-1953
Knight, Edgar Wallace, 1886-1953 · 1915
Papers of Edgar Wallace Knight (1886-1953), 1915 to 1953, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3904. His subjects include teachers in North Carolina, rural education and the folk high schools of Denmark, and the Social Science Research Council. The material also concerns twentieth century intellectual life in Orange County.
The Graduate School Research And Publications
Knight, Edgar Wallace · 1946 · Univ. of North Carolina Press
Edgar Wallace Knight's 1946 account of research and publications from the Graduate School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Published by the University of North Carolina Press, 461 pages.
About Edgar Wallace Knight
Collier Cobb Photographic Collection, circa 1890s-1920s
Cobb, Collier, 1862-1934 · 1894
Collier Cobb (1862-1934) taught at the University of North Carolina and made photographs there from the 1890s into the 1920s. Approximately 500 items in seven linear feet, P0013 in the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives at UNC. Subjects include campus buildings, the Old Well, alumni, employees, and faculty, with portraits including Wilson Caldwell, Harry Woodburn Chase, R. D. W. Connor, and Frederick H. Koch.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Knight, Edgar Wallace, 1886-1953.
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