The idea of a university / John Henry Newman ; Frank M. Turner, editor ; contributors, Martha McMackin Garland ... [et al.].

Originally published: London ; New York : Longman, Green, 1899.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note on the Life of John Henry Newman -- Reading The Idea of a University -- The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated -- I. University Teaching Considered in Nine Discourses -- II. University Subjects Discussed in Occasional Lectures and Essays: Four Selections. I. Christianity and Letters: A Lecture read in the School of Philosophy and Letters, November, 1854. II. Catholic Literature in the English Tongue, 1854-1858. III. Christianity and Physical Science: A Lecture read in the School of Medicine, November, 1855. IV. Christianity and Scientific Investigation. A Lecture for the School of Science, 1855 -- Rethinking The Idea of a University -- Introduction to Interpretive Essays -- "Newman in His Own Day" / Martha McMackin Garland -- "Newman's University and Ours" / Frank M. Turner -- "Theology and the University: Newman's Idea and Current Realities" / George M. Marsden -- "The Paradox of Self in The Idea of a University" / Sara Castro-Klaren --

"Newman and the Idea of an Electronic University" / George P. Landow.