Joseph L. Armstrong

Joseph L. Armstrong was a professor at Duke University (at the time, called "Trinity College") best known for reforming Duke's curriculum in the late nineteenth century, changing it to a German research university model with the help of John Franklin Crowell.^[1] Armstrong did his undergraduate work at Johns Hopkins University and graduate work at the University of Leipzig.

References

1. William E. King (1 January 1997). If Gargoyles Could Talk: Sketches of Duke University. Carolina Academic Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-89089-814-7.