- Preface
- List of Illustrations and Maps
- List of Arms and Seals
- Abbreviations in Footnotes
- 1. The Origin of Universities
- 2. The Medieval University at Work and Play
- 3. Cambridge, the Renaissance, and the Puritans
- 4. Cambridge: The Arts Course, 1600–1640
- 5. The Founders and Their College: Trinity
- 6. Emmanuel College and John Harvard, 1584–1635
- 7. Other Founders and Their Colleges
- 8. The Universities of Oxford and of Dublin
- 9. The Scottish Universities, 1574–1640
- 10. The Universities of the Netherlands, 1575–1640
- 11. The Founding of New England
- 12. The Founding of Harvard College
- 13. Dux Femina Facti
- 14. “The Colledg is Ordered to Bee at Newetowne”
- 15. The College Opened, 1637–1638
- 16. John Harvard
- 17. A School of Tyrannus, 1638–1639
- 18. Dunster Takes Hold
- 19. “A Prity Library Begune”
- 20. The “Old College”
- 21. The Quest for Revenue, 1640–1650
- 22. Government by President and Overseers
- Appendices
- A. The Student Universities of Bologna, Spain, and Spanish America
- B. English University Men who Emigrated to New England before 1646
- C. Was Harvard the Earliest Colonial College North of Mexico?
- D. ‘New Englands First Fruits’
- E. Dunster’s Memorandum of December, 1653
- Index
The Founding of Harvard College
With a New Foreword by Hugh Hawkins
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ISBN 9780674314511
Publication Date: 08/11/1998
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