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First Directory of American Colleges
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 February 2017
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Probably the first published directory of American colleges is found in the issue of the Connecticut Journal, a five-column weekly newspaper, for July 29, 1817. This periodical was published at New Haven for fifty-three years from 1767 to 1820. The list gives brief information concerning thirty-nine colleges in seventeen states and the District of Columbia. It occupies two-thirds of a 2 1/2-inch column on the first page of the Journal. It is reproduced on the next page with original spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
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1. According to Brigham, Clarence B., History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690–1820 (Worcester, Massachusetts, 1947), Vol. 1, 42–47 copies are available only at the Library of Congress and the libraries of Yale University, American Antiquarian Society, and Western Reserve Historical Society.Google Scholar
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3. Various official publications of the institution from 1824 to 1860 are entitled Laws of Harvard College, Laws of Harvard University, and Statutes and Laws of the University in (or at) Cambridge.Google Scholar
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