Girls High School - Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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find New England forging ahead in the establishment of both public schools and colleges As earlx as 1640 uc find that a free school had been estab lished in Salem of the Massachusetts Bax Colonx ln 1647 or even earlier both Boston and Cambridge had their public schools Verx soon everl ironnsing little settlement had its school and not long after the state adopted a sxstem of public schooling A bill passed in 1647 provided for the establishment of common and grammar schools in everx ton nship Turning again to the remaining colonies ue max readily see that the progress of education was here less sw 1ft New York had no sxstem of public schooling until 1760 The schools of Pennsylvania and New Jersey were mostlv parish schools under the control of the Presbvterians and Quakers These schools however were partiallx successful ln fact it is said Considering the mass of immigrants their efforts were crowned with success In Marx land slaves vtere sold as teachers Virginia s scattered settlements prevented the establishment of 1 public sxstem and farther south than this ue do not hear of ani attempts which had been made to found public schools This does not mean that the sons of the southern planters xx ere not educated for thev were usuallx sent to the famous old schools of England At this time our own colleges w re bemg established and were speedilw developing into favor Harvard vias founded in 1638 bv Reverend John H rvard who gave half his estate and manv of his books William and xi as the pride of the Virginians and to it thev devoted the funds whch hitherto had been unsuccessfullx emploxed in the establishment of public schools Eight xears after the founding of William and Marv ten clergl men held a conference at Savbrook mth mtent1on to establish a college there Through their contributions of books and monev this is as made possible the following vear Elihu Yale was the most important patron of this college and from him it received its name ln 1717 Yale was moved tc New Haven Connecticut the birthplace of its patron Another famous college of the dav is as Kings College now Columbia Universitx which was established in 1750 The courses of education offered bv these colleges were not verx advanced and were greatly influenced bv religious feeling The branches taught were not as mam as those in a high school course of todax There x ere no schools of medicine or lan and the phvslcian and laxx ver in ere lightlx esteemed The sole obiect of most of the colleges was to train the xouth in the old doctrine of the church ln the common schools there xi as the same strong religious element and here too we find the studies not at all advanced ln the Dutch settlements in particular the clergxmen xx ere also the masters of the schools And this method was not without its advantages for should xou on a Sundax hear the master in his statelx robes hurl doun his fierx xx arnmgs from the pulpit far above your head you would surelx go to school the next dai in a meeker and more passive frame of mind lest some of that brimstone fall on wou or Cven a worse punishment the birchrod The branches taught in these 14 y V ra . . l L it-. .vs -4 ' u ' ct L . ' V , ' .77 ' . . I I l n V -I n a Q 6: I a Q . , , J . . . A . . 7. ,, ,- V . . . , -V I . c ' V ' . 7 U . . . S g . . . 7 Mary College was founded at Williamsburg, Virginia in 1692. This college I . . . . . .. Y v . 7 . a . . 1 .. ' ,1 I V lj iv' V 1 ' ' If f rv I v Y - r Q . Y - . V . 1 x .uv ' . , . ' ' V I 1 w ' V . 4 v - K , F ! . ,V 1 , , A, - V ,i , V 1

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