LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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Yale
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Harvard
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University of Massachusetts
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Salem College
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Detailed explanation-1: -With some 17, 000 Puritans migrating to New England by 1636, Harvard was founded in anticipation of the need for training clergy for the new commonwealth, a “church in the wilderness". Harvard was established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Detailed explanation-2: -Despite popular opinion (and a certain statue) John Harvard did not found Harvard, but he was the first major benefactor and he donated half of his estate and his library of over 400 books to the School. Harvard University was officially founded by a vote by the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Detailed explanation-3: -In New England, Puritans established Harvard in 1636 and Yale in 1701. The two others from that region, Rhode Island College (Brown) and Dartmouth College, sprangfrom the GreatAwakening in 1765 and 1769, respectively.