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The Aims of Education: The College of the University of Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1997. A selection of addresses delivered to incoming University of Chicago College students, 1963-1995.

Booth, Wayne C., ed. The Knowledge Most Worth Having. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967.

Boucher, Chauncy Samuel. The Chicago College Plan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1935.

Boyer, John W. Three Views of Continuity and Change at the University of Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1999. Includes three essays originally delivered as annual reports to the faculty of the College, 1996-1998, "The College as a Member of the Wider University," "The College as an Advocate of Curricular Innovation and Debate," and "The College as a Sponsor of Research."

Frodin, Reuben. "Very Simple, but Thoroughgoing," in F. Champion Ward, ed., The Idea and Practice of General Education: An Account of the College of the University of Chicago by Present and Former Members of the Faculty, pp. 25-99. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950.

Kass, Amy A. "Radical Conservatives for Liberal Education." Ph.D. dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 1973.

MacAloon, John J., ed. General Education in the Social Sciences: Centennial Reflections on the College of the University of Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Includes David E. Orlinsky, "Not Very Simple, but Overflowing: A Historical Perspective on General Education at the University of Chicago."

Martin, William P. "The Dewey-Hutchins Debate on General Education, 1929 to 1945: A Case of Progressive Historical Bias." Ed.D. dissertation, Temple University, 1991.

Plath, Paul J. "The Fox and the Hedgehog: Liberal Education at the University of Chicago." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1989.

Thomas, Russell. The Search for a Common Learning: General Education, 1800-1960. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962.

Wegener, Charles. Liberal Education and the Modern University. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.