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The first institution of higher learning introduced in the Americas was Harvard University in 1636. The institution started when the personal estate and library of a minister named John Harvard. Its academic programs were modeled after those of English universities while blending this with the philosophical beliefs of the Puritan religion. A brochure about the college was released in 1643 justifying the university as a place "To advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches."(Ref 2. Par. 4)

The Next college to be introduced was William and Mary college in 1693. Named after King William III and Queen Mary II, it was chartered as a school of divinity, arts and sciences, philosophy and languages. It was revolutionary in itself, as it was the first school with a royal charter, to have a Greek affiliation, and the first law school in the nation. (Ref 3)

These beginning institutions changed the schooling system...