Brought+to+America

The institute of higher learning has been a commonplace term in the United States for quite some time. As shown by Neuharth (Ref 8), there are 4,352 colleges in the United States. Looking at all the different options for colleges nowadays may blind many to how few the options were in America once upon a time. Harvard appearing in the mid 1630s, followed by William and Mary to appear in the late 1690s, Yale in 1701, Princeton in 1748, and Columbia in 1755.(Ref 4 Pg 2-3) Many colleges like Harvard and Yale were based around the Puritan philosophy of schooling and trained ministers to be literate in scripture, as that was important to the society(Ref 4 Pg 3).