Dutch of New Amsterdam and opened a school in Brooklyn.
The Boston Latin School was begun in 1635, two years later, and schools
were opened also in Dorchester and New Haven. Notice that in many of
these early schools provision was made to educate Indian children free
of charge. Rhode Island had the first public school, founded at Newport
in 1640. Throughout the colonies the schools were endowed with lands
and money and later taxes were given for their support, but tuition was
always paid.

I--COLONIAL COLLEGES

The Colonial colleges rose from the spirit of forty men, all educated at
Cambridge, England, who lived in the New England colonies. John Harvard,
a young minister, gave his library of two hundred and sixty volumes and
half his estate of seventeen hundred pounds to found Harvard College.

The University of William and Mary rose in Virginia at this time, richly
endowed at once with money, a tobacco revenue, and lands; this was the
direct outcome of the school originally planned sixty years earlier.

Yale was founded in 1700, each trustee giving a few books as a
guarantee; but it had been originally planned as early as 1647, when
John Davenport had a lot set apart for a college in New Haven. Its early
years were full of hardship; it existed at New Milford for fifteen
years, and was not settled at New Haven until 1718, when it received a
bequest of five hundred pounds from Elihu Yale.

All the colonies had grammar schools and a few had dame schools. The
Massachusetts law of 1647 provided that when a town had one hundred
families or householders they must set up a school under penalty of a
fine. One paper should deal with the interesting topic of these early
schools, their discipline, their curricula, their teachers. Notice
especially the famous teacher Ezra Cheever, who compiled a Latin book
and taught in many places for seventy years. His salary, a large one,
was sixty pounds a year.

Another paper may be on the lack of school advantages for girls in early
times. A few went to the dame schools, but many to none at all. It was
not until Revolutionary times that the Moravians established a girls'
school at Bethlehem and girls were admitted to the Penn School in
Philadelphia and the Female Academy there; and in 1785 a girls' school
was opened at Greenfield, Connecticut, and the Medford School near
Boston in 1789.

Read from the opening chapter of "Education in the United States," by
B. G. Boone (Appleton) and