534 



POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



At the date when this will was signed, July 9, 1790, the following 

 colleges were in operation in the United States: 



Harvard (1636). 



Yale (1701). 



College of William and Mary (1692). 



University of Pennsylvania (1749). 



Columbia (1754). 



Princeton (1746). 



Brown University (1764). 



Dartmouth (1769). 



Rutgers (1770). 



Hampden- Sidney ( 1776) . 



Washington and Lee (1782). 



Washington University (1782). 



Dickinson (1783). 



St. Johns (1784). 



Nashville (1785). 



Georgetown (1789). 



University of North Carolina (1789). 



In Yale College we find the following courses offered for the session 

 of 1702 : 



(1) Latin, five or six orations of Cicero; five or six books of Virgil; talk- 

 ing college Latin; (2) Greek, reading a portion of the New Testament; (3) 

 Hebrew, Psalter; (4) Some instruction in mathematics and surveying; (5) 

 Physics (Pierson) ; (6) Logic (Ramus). 



In Dartmouth College, for the session of 1811, the following courses 

 were offered: 



Freshmen Latin and Greek classics; arithmetic; English grammar; 

 rhetoric. 



Sophomore Latin and Greek classics; logic; geography; arithmetic; 

 geometry; trigonometry; algebra; conic sections; surveying; belles-lettres; 

 criticism. 



Junior Latin and Greek classics ; geometry ; natural and moral philosophy ; 

 astronomy. 



Senior Metaphysics; theology; natural and political law. 



The following courses were offered at Harvard for the session of 

 1825: 



Freshmen Livy, five books; plane geometry; Graeca Majora; Horace, 

 algebra; English grammar. 



Sophomore Solid geometry; English history; Cicero; analytic geometry; 

 rhetoric. 



Junior Logic; moral philosophy; chemistry; Tacitus; Homer; calculus; 

 mechanics ; electricity. 



Senior Intellectual philosophy; astronomy; Butler's analogy; political 

 economy; chemistry; natural philosophy. 



By comparing even the latest and most advanced of these courses 

 of study, one will see that the best high schools of the present day 

 are nearly the equivalent of the institutions from which Washington 

 could have drawn his ideals, and that a university that now begins 

 where the best colleges of his time left off, would surely be the equal 

 of all that he could have hoped to see in his national university. Such 

 institutions we now have in every state and in almost every city. 



During the early years of our national existence it might have 

 been possible to bring into one institution the greater part of the 



