Colonial colleges: Difference between revisions

The '''colonial colleges''' are nine institutions of [[higher education]] chartered in the [[Thirteen Colonies]] before the founding of the [[United States of America]] during the [[American Revolution]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Stoeckel|first=Althea|title=Presidents, professors, and politics: the colonial colleges and the American revolution|journal=Conspectus of History|year=1976|volume=1|issue=3|pages=45|url=http://dmr.bsu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/ConspectusH&CISOPTR=345&REC=1}}</ref> These nine have long been considered together, notably since the survey of their origins in the 1907 ''[[The Cambridge History of English and American Literature]]''.<ref>{{Cite book| title = The Cambridge History of English and American Literature|chapter=XXIII. Education. § 13. Colonial Colleges.| chapter-url = http://www.bartleby.com/227/1613.html| title-link = The Cambridge History of English and American Literature|date=June 14, 2022 }}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=May 2024}}

|'''NewHarvard College'''{{refn|The institution was founded in 1636 by a vote of the legislature of the colony to provide money for "a school or college" at Newtowne (the present [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]]). Nothing further was done about actually creating a school until 1638, when in his will John Harvard bequeathed money and books to the yet-uncreated college. Construction began shortly thereafter on a school that was given the name of its first benefactor.|group=nb}}<br />(''[[Harvard University]]'')

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