ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the admission of white women, the admission of Blacks, the development of black colleges, colleges for white women, the state university from the late 1700s to the 1862 and 1890 Morrill Acts and into the late 1800s, and deals with the rise of the administration. The discussion about who came first in US higher education includes black colleges. Across the nation during the 1800s, despite the concerted efforts of many college presidents and faculty members, both public pressure and the work of other college presidents and professors slowly eroded the dominance of God in the work and curriculum of the college in the second half of the nineteenth century. It is no mere platitude to argue that the nineteenth century was one of destiny for US colleges and universities, although for historical analysis, a century is sufficiently long that a historian might be hard-pressed not to find any destiny in 100 years.
