Introduction: How to Know the World?1 Professor Lough’s Big Idea2 The University Flexes Its Muscles3 A Shipboard Education4 Scandal and the Press5 America’s Classroom6 Students of Empire7 Other Ways of Knowing8 Assessing the Experiment9 Thinking with FailureAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Chasing Constantine RaisesArchival InformationNotesIndex