Halls of Honor: College Men in the Old South by Robert F. Pace

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By Robert F. Pace

a robust confluence of younger energies and entrenched codes of honor enlivens Robert F. Pace’s examine the realm of male pupil university existence within the antebellum South. via broad learn into documents, letters, and diaries of scholars and school from greater than twenty associations, speed creates a vibrant portrait of adolescent rebelliousness being affected by the ethic to domesticate a public face of undefined, admire, and honesty. those destiny leaders faced authority figures, made buddies, studied, courted, hung out, drank, gambled, cheated, and dueled—all in the demonstrated traditions in their southern culture.

For the sons of southern gentry, university lifestyles awarded various demanding situations, together with attractive with northern professors and adjusting to dwelling clear of domestic and relatives. The younger males prolonged the standard view of upper schooling as a bridge among youth and maturity, innovatively developing their very own international of honor that ready them for residing within the better southern society. Failure to acquire an excellent schooling used to be a grievous breach of honor for them, and speed skillfully weaves jointly tales of scholar antics, trials, and triumphs in the broader male ethos of the previous South. whilst the Civil battle erupted, many scholars left campus to develop into squaddies, protect their households, and look after a lifestyle. by means of war's finish, the code of honor had waned, altering the tradition of southern schools and universities forever.

Halls of Honor represents an important replace of E. Merton Coulter’s 1928 vintage paintings, collage existence within the previous South, which concerned about the college of Georgia. Pace's energetic research will widen the dialogue of antebellum southern university lifestyles for many years to come.

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