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First Directory of American Colleges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Walter Crosby Eells
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Extract

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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Research Article
Information
History of Education Quarterly , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , December 1962 , pp. 225 - 233
Copyright
Copyright © 1962, University of Pittsburgh Press 

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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

2. Authority for most of these statements are American Universities and Colleges (Washington, 1960); and Eells, Walter C., Baccalaureate Degrees Conferred by American Colleges in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Washington, May 1958).Google Scholar

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

4. Morison, S. E., The Development of Harvard University (Cambridge 1930), xxvii.Google Scholar

5. Demarest, William H. S., A History of Rutgers College, 1766–1924 (New Brunswick, N. J., 1924), 1.Google Scholar

6. In 1770 the Dutch church “appropriated about $1200 to the establishment of a college at New-Brunswick.”—Analectic Magazine.Google Scholar

7. Meriwether, Colyer, History of Higher Education in South Carolina (Washington, 1888), 52–53.Google Scholar

8. Peters, W. E., Legal History of Ohio University (Athens, Ohio, July 1910).Google Scholar

9. American Universities and Colleges, 465, gives this date as 1780.Google Scholar