Book excerpt: 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.