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public employments, both in Church and State: And whereas the encouragement of Arts and Sciences, and all good literature, tends to the honor of God, the advantage of the christian religion, and the great benefit of this, and the other United States of America--It is declared, That the PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD-COLLEGE, in their corporate capacity, and their successors in that capacity, their officers and servants, shall have, hold, use, exercise and enjoy, all the powers, authorities, rights, liberties, privileges, immunities and franchises, which they now have, or are entitled to have, hold, use, exercise and enjoy: And the same are hereby ratified and confirmed unto them, the said President and Fellows of Harvard-College, and to their successors, and to their officers and servants, respectively, forever.
390:, and the existing board of trustees of loyalist sympathies. They therefore created a new board for the university, taking over the old college and academy. Following protests by Smith and the trustees of the college, the legislature reinstated the college's 1753 and 1755 charters in 1789 and the college regained possession of its buildings, with the university moving to the Philosophical Society Hall. This arrangement lasted two years before, following the adoption of a new constitution by the state, a new charter in 1791 merged the College of Philadelphia and the University of the State of Pennsylvania, forming the University of Pennsylvania. 204:, which makes a disputed claim to have been established in 1740, considers itself to be America's first university, a title it claims on its website and in other published materials, due to its (1) medical school being established separate from college in 1765 and (2) receiving a revised charter in 1779 naming it a "University in Philadelphia". The university has published a book about being the first university in America, and its website contains numerous instances of the phrase "America's First University". 278:. With respect to the title of first university in America, it makes the claim on its website that "in 1781, by uniting the faculties of law, medicine, and the arts, William & Mary became America's first true university." Elsewhere on the website, it also claims to be the "First institution of higher education to have a law school, which made us the first college in the country to become a university (1779)". 19: 258:
arts'), but may also be one of the professions: law, medicine, theology, etc. A university, by contrast, is the co-existence, under a single institutional umbrella, of more than one faculty. With the founding of the first medical school in America (in 1765; Columbia was second), Penn became America's first university."
185:, founded in 1636, claims to be "the oldest institution of higher education in the United States". The claim of being "the first university" has been made on its behalf by others. An early official mention of Harvard as "the University" is found in the Massachusetts Constitution, first submitted on October 28, 1779, by 1134:(d) On November 27, 1779, the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania passed an act for the establishment of a University incorporating the rights and powers of the College, Academy, and Charitable School. This was the first designation of an institution in the United States as a University; 608:
notes: "In 1899, UPenn's Trustees adopted a resolution that established 1740 as the founding date, but good cases may be made for 1749, when Franklin first convened the Trustees, or 1751, when the first classes were taught at the affiliated secondary school for boys, Academy of Philadelphia, or 1755,
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degrees, then there are a number of contenders for the title of oldest United States university based on that criterion. Among the conflicting interpretations is whether the date the first doctoral degree is awarded should be the determining factor, or the date a doctoral program was first attempted
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Under the leadership of Thomas Jefferson, then governor of Virginia and a member of the Board of Visitors, William and Mary became a university. The grammar and divinity schools were discontinued, and a professorship of anatomy and medicine, and the first American chairs of law and police and modern
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Art. I.--Whereas our wise and pious ancestors, so early as the year one thousand six hundred and thirty six, laid the foundation of Harvard-College, in which University many persons of great eminence have, by the blessing of GOD, been initiated in those arts and sciences, which qualified them for
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calls itself "the second-oldest institution of higher learning in the country", acknowledging Harvard's claim but adding that: "Harvard may have opened first, but William & Mary was already planned. Original 1619 plans for W&M called for a campus at Henrico." This refers to the College of
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claims to be the first university in America, drawing a distinction between this and the first college: "In the Anglo-American model, a college, by definition, is a faculty whose subject specialization is in a single academic field. This is usually arts and sciences (often referred to as 'liberal
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to suggest possible growth into a full-fledged university". Edward Eggleston in 1900 noted that: " is printed with Harwell, Blair and Clinton's account of Virginia, and the copy of the latter in the Library of Congress is annotated by some critic, who notes slight variations on the sense of the
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The issue is further confused by the fact that at time of founding of many of the institutions in question, the United States did not exist as a sovereign nation. Questions of institutional continuity sometimes make it difficult to determine the true age of any institution. The status of first
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The word "university" is used a total of five times in reference to Harvard in the Massachusetts Constitution. It is not clear from context, either above or in the paragraphs that follow, that the constitution meant to draw any semantic distinction between "college" and "university."
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calls itself "the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States", and this claim is rarely challenged. It is possible to disagree what year should be taken as Harvard's real founding date. Harvard uses the earliest possible one, 1636, the year in which the
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has been applied to institutions of the most diverse character, and it is only since 1880 or thereabouts that an effort has been seriously made to distinguish between collegiate and university instruction; nor has that effort yet completely succeeded.
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was naturally applied to a group of schools associated more or less closely with a central school or college. Harvard, for example, most comprehensive of all, has seventeen distinct departments, and Yale has almost as many.
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In 2020, William and Mary law professor Thomas McSweeney along with two undergraduate students published an article in the William and Mary Law Review pointing out that the Latin text of the university's 1693
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and passing of a 1785 law naming the "University of the State of Pennsylvania" allows Penn to assert that "No other American institution of higher learning was named "University " before Penn was so named."
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There is no consensus national definition of what entitles an institution to be considered a university versus a college. Differing definitions are used at the state level, and the common understanding of
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The university officially uses 1740 as its founding date and has since 1899. The ideas and intellectual inspiration for the academic institution stem from 1749, with a pamphlet published by
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English version of the charter from the Latin original. The phrase 'studium generale' has a sense hardly appreciated by those who copied it from the ancient charter for William and Mary."
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and chartered in 1755 alongside an academy chartered in 1753. However, the Pennsylvania legislature in 1779 suspected the provost of the College of Philadelphia,
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This institution received a royal charter in 1618 and operated a school for several years before being destroyed with the town during the
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languages were established. The elective system of studies was introduced at this time, the first such program in the United States.
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when Penn obtained its collegiate charter to add a post-secondary institution, the College of Philadelphia." Princeton's library
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founded the first medical school in the nation, according to Penn's archivist, although this did not initially award doctorates.
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resolved to establish a fund in a year's time for a "School or College" to be started, which occurred in 1637 when the
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degree, conferred by Harvard on April 30, 1776, the text of the degree refers to Harvard twice as "our University".
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https://web.archive.org/web/20060428155156/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/1700s/penn1700s.html
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Building America's First University: An Historical and Architectural Guide to the University of Pennsylvania
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claims that the 1779 charter from the Pennsylvania state legislature, establishing the university in
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The newly–designated university was intended to continue the College of Philadelphia, established by
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issued Harvard a charter. However, Harvard has operated since 1650 under the same corporation, the "
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to the full Convention on October 28, 1779 and ratified on June 15, 1780, contains this language:
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founded its graduate school in 1820, with the first doctoral program being established in 1897.
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since 1650, making it the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.
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has awarded honorary "doctorates" since the 17th century. In 1692, it issued a
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university, which includes private universities, is distinct from the claim of
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The Transit of Civilization from England to America in the Seventeenth Century
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Chapter V. The University at Cambridge, and Encouragement of Literature, etc.
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have a similar scope. In the latter part of the 19th century Yale, Columbia,
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Several universities claim to be the first university in the United States:
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has an in-depth discussion of the "first" American university on pp 1-8.
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About the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Accessed 06/10/2009.
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describes the gradual emergence of U.S. universities as follows:
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For historical reasons, the College of William & Mary, like
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On December 4, 1779, just seven days after the founding of the "
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Thomas J. McSweeney; Katharine Ello; Elsbeth O'Brien (2020).
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List of oldest universities in continuous operation
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