Important Institutions
The first 9 Colonial Colleges
-Harvard
-William & Mary
-Yale
-Princeton
-Colombia
-University of Pennsylvania
-Brown
-Queen's College/ Rutgers
-Dartmouth
Colonial college organizers were alumni of which institutions
Cambridge and Oxford
The first student organization
A religious affiliated organization where students got together and prayed
Admission based on
Knowledge of Greek and Latin
Secret traditions of literary socialites
Initiation rites, mottos, and badges
Year of Harvard's founding
1636
The first male donor who helped start higher education endowments
John Harvard
The general curfew was
9pm
Chemistry did not become a part of the curriculum until this was created
Medical Schools
Rush
The first TWO women's colleges
-Bethlehem Female Seminary
-Salem College
The first fraternity
Phi Beta Kappa
Corporal punishment was banned at Harvard in
1734
The three stages in the development of American science
1. The formative period
2. The transition period
3. The established pattern
Political topics arose in this degree's curriculum
Masters Degree
This building was erected at Harvard in 1656 to spread God's knowledge
Indian College building
Bethlehem Female Seminary and Salem College began as
primary/elementary schools for young girls
A typical dinner
A pound of meat and a pint of beer
The curriculum of a Masters' student
Students followed no prescribed course of post-graduate studies but were expected to spend three years attending public lectures, studying theology and Hebrew and other Old Testament languages, participating in regular disputations.
Delicacy three times a week
Pudding
The two colonial colleges that were officially nonsectarian
-Princeton
-University of Pennsylvania
Astronomical observations were made after Governor Winthrop presented a telescope to the College in
1672
Total Yale Alumni by 1709
18
The weekly schedule of a FIRST year student
Mondays & Tuesdays: Logic
Wednesdays: Greek
Thursdays: Hebrew
Fridays: Rhetoric
Saturdays: Divinity catechetical and, history and the nature of plants.
How did Yale fund their first graduate programs and scholarships
The small slave plantation in Rhode Island they owned