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and the Reformers knew that United States authorship of their 

 proposals would be damning. This similarity seems to be due rather 

 to common British traditions working out in similar conditions, 

 instruments for the expression of those ideals and the realization of 

 those purposes which have been the constant pursuit of the British 

 race. 



King's College, New York, and the College of William and Mary 

 in Virginia, reflected more fully than any other in the States the 

 British tradition in government, curriculum, methods of instruction 

 and mode of living. The first college proposed for Virginia was to 

 bear the name of Academia Virginiensis et Oxoniensis.^^ The New 

 York College turned with equally reverent eyes to royalist and 

 ecclesiastical Oxford. To the Church of England, to the Classics, to 

 the residential system and student government of Oxford, King's 

 College, New York, accorded the honour of first place in its organiza- 

 tion and practices. 



The influence of Cambridge, with its traditions of Roundheads, 

 Cromwell and Science, predominated in Harvard and revolutionary 

 Massachusetts. It was not until sectarian strife gave rise to denom- 

 inational colleges that the New England influence penetrated into 

 Canada. Possibly the "New Light" movement, which swept over 

 New England and was carried into Nova Scotia by Henry Alline, 

 preparing the way for the Baptist Church in that province, was 

 responsible for the opening of the door in Canada to the New England 

 College teacher and tradition. 



Sectarian Strife 



In the "political" boards and the exclusive privileges granted 

 to the Church of England lay the seeds of the troubles that afiflicted 

 the King's Colleges for more than a generation. 



Doubtless the method of selecting the Governors, from officials 

 of the Crown, secured able men, well-educated and experienced in 

 business. In a new country it was perhaps the only method of secur- 

 ing properly qualified men. (Cf. Harvard's first Board of Overseers.) 

 It also secured, whether by intention or not, governors in sympathy 

 with the Church of England.^- 



^^Thwing: History of Education in America, p. 51. 



^^In New Brunswick every member of the Governor's Council, until its abolition 

 in 1833, was an adherent of the Church of England, with the solitary exception of 

 William Pagan, a Presbyterian. L. A. Wilmot was the first Attorney-General, 

 1848, and the first Judge of the Supreme Court (1850) of the Province who was not 

 of the Church of England. Hannay: Wilmot, p. 7. 



