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Worcester (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry 6301
orations, Virgil, Sallust, Latin grammar and Latin prose, and Latin prosody. In Greek: Greek grammar and the reading of three books of the Anabasis. And in addition, arithmetic, English grammar, and geography. Still later, at Harvard, 1850: In Latin: Caesar, Virgil, Cicero's select orations, with Latin grammar and prose. In Greek: Felton's Greek reader, writing of Greek with the accents, Greek grammar. In mathematics: arithmetic, algebra, first lessons; introduction to geometry. Worcester's ancient geography and history. 4. The numbers in attendance were very small. A single case may be cited: In 1834 Harvard had 336 students in all departments; in 1840, 448 students; in 1850, 584 students; and in 1866-67, 959 students. No institution of learning up to the time of the close of the war had as large a number as 1,000 students. During Harvard's first sixty-five years of history there were graduated an average of eight students a year. During Yale's first 128 years, an
Texas (Texas, United States) (search for this): entry 6301
onies, the State may have had to do with the maintenance of the college; but State foundations, in the realm of higher education, have come for the most part since 1840. Of the more prominent State universities, the following are the dates of establishment: Pennsylvania Not strictly a State university.1740Iowa1847 Georgia1785Wisconsin1848 Vermont1791Cornell1868 Tennessee1794Colorado1868 North Carolina1795Illinois1868 Indiana1820Minnesota1869 Virginia1825Nebraska1869 Michigan1837Texas1883 Missouri1840 Higher education, until times comparatively recent, therefore, was the child of the Church, and in each particular case the special offspring of a denomination. It has been in accordance with this policy that everywhere throughout the Middle and Western States the different denominations of Christians have sought to strengthen their work by establishing colleges, the absolute control of which they have maintained. The debt of education to the several Christian denomina
Nebraska (Nebraska, United States) (search for this): entry 6301
State were one in the colonies, the State may have had to do with the maintenance of the college; but State foundations, in the realm of higher education, have come for the most part since 1840. Of the more prominent State universities, the following are the dates of establishment: Pennsylvania Not strictly a State university.1740Iowa1847 Georgia1785Wisconsin1848 Vermont1791Cornell1868 Tennessee1794Colorado1868 North Carolina1795Illinois1868 Indiana1820Minnesota1869 Virginia1825Nebraska1869 Michigan1837Texas1883 Missouri1840 Higher education, until times comparatively recent, therefore, was the child of the Church, and in each particular case the special offspring of a denomination. It has been in accordance with this policy that everywhere throughout the Middle and Western States the different denominations of Christians have sought to strengthen their work by establishing colleges, the absolute control of which they have maintained. The debt of education to the se
Vermont (Vermont, United States) (search for this): entry 6301
. It was not until long after this that the State universities were established. In the earlier times, when Church and State were one in the colonies, the State may have had to do with the maintenance of the college; but State foundations, in the realm of higher education, have come for the most part since 1840. Of the more prominent State universities, the following are the dates of establishment: Pennsylvania Not strictly a State university.1740Iowa1847 Georgia1785Wisconsin1848 Vermont1791Cornell1868 Tennessee1794Colorado1868 North Carolina1795Illinois1868 Indiana1820Minnesota1869 Virginia1825Nebraska1869 Michigan1837Texas1883 Missouri1840 Higher education, until times comparatively recent, therefore, was the child of the Church, and in each particular case the special offspring of a denomination. It has been in accordance with this policy that everywhere throughout the Middle and Western States the different denominations of Christians have sought to strengthen
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): entry 6301
after this that the State universities were established. In the earlier times, when Church and State were one in the colonies, the State may have had to do with the maintenance of the college; but State foundations, in the realm of higher education, have come for the most part since 1840. Of the more prominent State universities, the following are the dates of establishment: Pennsylvania Not strictly a State university.1740Iowa1847 Georgia1785Wisconsin1848 Vermont1791Cornell1868 Tennessee1794Colorado1868 North Carolina1795Illinois1868 Indiana1820Minnesota1869 Virginia1825Nebraska1869 Michigan1837Texas1883 Missouri1840 Higher education, until times comparatively recent, therefore, was the child of the Church, and in each particular case the special offspring of a denomination. It has been in accordance with this policy that everywhere throughout the Middle and Western States the different denominations of Christians have sought to strengthen their work by establishi
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry 6301
versities were established. In the earlier times, when Church and State were one in the colonies, the State may have had to do with the maintenance of the college; but State foundations, in the realm of higher education, have come for the most part since 1840. Of the more prominent State universities, the following are the dates of establishment: Pennsylvania Not strictly a State university.1740Iowa1847 Georgia1785Wisconsin1848 Vermont1791Cornell1868 Tennessee1794Colorado1868 North Carolina1795Illinois1868 Indiana1820Minnesota1869 Virginia1825Nebraska1869 Michigan1837Texas1883 Missouri1840 Higher education, until times comparatively recent, therefore, was the child of the Church, and in each particular case the special offspring of a denomination. It has been in accordance with this policy that everywhere throughout the Middle and Western States the different denominations of Christians have sought to strengthen their work by establishing colleges, the absolute cont
Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): entry 6301
of the particular denomination in control of the seminary, so in those days the staff of the college consisted exclusively of those who were members of the particular denomination in control of the college. In many of the smaller institutions under denominational control this condition still exists, while in the larger institutions a survival of it is seen in such a charter as that of Yale, which requires a large proportion of the corporation to be Congregational clergymen of the State of Connecticut. 3. But it is to be noted that denominations in those days were what we would to-day call sects. Inasmuch as the distinctions between the denominations were more clearly marked and greater emphasis was placed relatively upon these distinctions, and since the spirit of those days was narrow as compared with that which frequently permits to-day the co-operation of different denominations in the same great work, the denominationalism of that time may fairly be called an undue denomin
Minnesota (Minnesota, United States) (search for this): entry 6301
er times, when Church and State were one in the colonies, the State may have had to do with the maintenance of the college; but State foundations, in the realm of higher education, have come for the most part since 1840. Of the more prominent State universities, the following are the dates of establishment: Pennsylvania Not strictly a State university.1740Iowa1847 Georgia1785Wisconsin1848 Vermont1791Cornell1868 Tennessee1794Colorado1868 North Carolina1795Illinois1868 Indiana1820Minnesota1869 Virginia1825Nebraska1869 Michigan1837Texas1883 Missouri1840 Higher education, until times comparatively recent, therefore, was the child of the Church, and in each particular case the special offspring of a denomination. It has been in accordance with this policy that everywhere throughout the Middle and Western States the different denominations of Christians have sought to strengthen their work by establishing colleges, the absolute control of which they have maintained. The
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): entry 6301
tate may have had to do with the maintenance of the college; but State foundations, in the realm of higher education, have come for the most part since 1840. Of the more prominent State universities, the following are the dates of establishment: Pennsylvania Not strictly a State university.1740Iowa1847 Georgia1785Wisconsin1848 Vermont1791Cornell1868 Tennessee1794Colorado1868 North Carolina1795Illinois1868 Indiana1820Minnesota1869 Virginia1825Nebraska1869 Michigan1837Texas1883 Missouri1840 Higher education, until times comparatively recent, therefore, was the child of the Church, and in each particular case the special offspring of a denomination. It has been in accordance with this policy that everywhere throughout the Middle and Western States the different denominations of Christians have sought to strengthen their work by establishing colleges, the absolute control of which they have maintained. The debt of education to the several Christian denominations is some
United States (United States) (search for this): entry 6301
University and College education in the United States, the trend of The following monograph upon the history and present status of the university development in the United States was prepared by President William R. Harper of the University of Chicago: Purpose and definitiocentury. It is impossible to separate the history of education in America from the history of the Church. Changes in one have affected the per sense of the term, was something which did not exist in the United States before the war. It might be said that this idea goes no farther. The association includes fourteen of the 480 colleges of the United States—one in thirty-four. In some of these institutions are gatheredmore than one-third of all the colleges and universities in the United States is in each case less than $10,000. The cost per capita for highliterally impossible for even the strongest denomination in the United States to man a strong university. It would be difficult for any thre
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