1755. University of Pennsylvania.
1764. Brown University.
1769. Dartmouth.
1770. Rutgers.
1775. Hampden-Sidney. not languish. The school house came to be considered second only to the church in importance.
Fearing that the plantations would become, as Mather expressed it, "mere unwatered places for the devil," unless they had a university, the settlers in 1636 established a college. Four hundred pounds in money was at first pledged. Two years later, by the will of John Ilarvard, a young Charleston minister, the little college received seven or eight hundred pounds and, for those times, a large library. It is somewhat startling to think that this was only sixteen years after the Pilgrims first landed on the desolate shores of New England. Yale College came sixty-five years later. In their enthusiasm for education the colonists even tried to apply the classics to the Indian, founding Dartmouth College for that purpose in 1769.
The common school system was early established. Every town of fifty families was compelled by law to maintain a public school, and every town of one hundred families must have a school to fit pupils for Harvard College.
The Pilgrims builded better than they knew. The educational system, thus inaugurated, has become the foundation that underlies all the intellectual product of America.
3. The church was in itself an educational factor that must not be overlooked. An educated clergy, and a public sentiment that compelled every one to be
