Excerpt from Stetson Oracle, Vol. 14: Nov. 25, 1930
The first college in America was Har vard established in 1636, followed by William and Mary in Virginia in 1693; Yale in Connecticut in 1701; Princeton in New Jersey in 1746; Philadelphia, now the University of Penn, in 1749; King' S, now Columbia in New York; in 1759; and Rhode Island, now Brown Uni versity in 1764.
Conditions in the colleges, although much better than those of the elemen tary grades were not up to the standard of today and the Northern colleges taught mostly for the preparation for the ministry.
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