Genealogy of the Eddy Family

by Charles Eddy

1881

John Eddy (1597-1684) and his brother, Samuel (1608-1688), two of the children of William Eddy (ca.1550-1616), emigrated from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1630. John settled in Watertown, Massachusetts in 1633; Samuel lived in Plymouth until he retired to live with his sons in Middleborough and Swansea. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Michigan, Illinois and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Ontario and elsewhere in Canada.

For the Common Good

by Charles Dorn

2017 · Cornell University Press

Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for? In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America's so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries of college and university history. From the community college to the elite research university—in states from California to Maine—Dorn engages a fundamental question confronted by higher education institutions ever since the nation's founding: Do colleges and universities contribute to the common good? Tracking changes in the prevailing social ethos between the late eighteenth and early twenty-first centuries, Dorn illustrates the ways in which civic-mindedness, practicality, commercialism, and affluence influenced higher education's dedication to the public good. Each ethos, long a part of American history and tradition, came to predominate over the others during one of the four chronological periods examined in the book, informing the character of institutional debates and telling the definitive story of its time. For the Common Good demonstrates how two hundred years of political, economic, and social change prompted transformation among colleges and universities—including the establishment of entirely new kinds of institutions—and refashioned higher education in the United States over time in essential and often vibrant ways.