An American history . metime. The two little col-leges which dated from theseventeenth century, Har-vard and William andjNIary (section 173), hadbeen joined by Yale earlyin the eighteenth more were foundedbetween 1746 and of these are nowknown as Princeton Uni-versity, Columbia Univer-sity, the University ofPennsylvania, and Brown University. The fifth is still calledDartmouth College. 223. The Man of the Hour. Perhaps the most characteristicAmerican of this time was Benjamin Franklin. Born atBoston in 1706, he went to Philadelphia as a poor lad to seekhis fortune. He be
An American history . metime. The two little col-leges which dated from theseventeenth century, Har-vard and William andjNIary (section 173), hadbeen joined by Yale earlyin the eighteenth more were foundedbetween 1746 and of these are nowknown as Princeton Uni-versity, Columbia Univer-sity, the University ofPennsylvania, and Brown University. The fifth is still calledDartmouth College. 223. The Man of the Hour. Perhaps the most characteristicAmerican of this time was Benjamin Franklin. Born atBoston in 1706, he went to Philadelphia as a poor lad to seekhis fortune. He began as a prmter and rose to be owner and > Wesley, the founder of ^Methodism, was a friend of Whitefield, and hadspent several years in Georgia (section 202). His first hymn book was pub-lished at Charleston, 1737. 2 There were Lutherans in New Sweden as early as 1638; others settled inNew Amsterdam; still others in Georgia and Pennsylvania. But they had nogeneral organization until Muhlcnburg drew them into VALEThe founder of Yale College.
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