. A history of the United States. red to readsome part of the Old Testament out of Hebrew into Greekin the morning and to turn some part of the New Testamentout of English or Latin into Greek at the time of the eveningrecitation. Dartmouth college wasoriginally intended to train Indians toteach Christianity to their tribes. InFranklins Academy other needs ofthe community were equally remem-bered. Even in Philadelphia, ayoung man wishing to study law ormedicine had to do so in the ofhce ofa lawyer or a doctor, and not at acollege. Printing. — Most of the books inthe colonies were brought from E
. A history of the United States. red to readsome part of the Old Testament out of Hebrew into Greekin the morning and to turn some part of the New Testamentout of English or Latin into Greek at the time of the eveningrecitation. Dartmouth college wasoriginally intended to train Indians toteach Christianity to their tribes. InFranklins Academy other needs ofthe community were equally remem-bered. Even in Philadelphia, ayoung man wishing to study law ormedicine had to do so in the ofhce ofa lawyer or a doctor, and not at acollege. Printing. — Most of the books inthe colonies were brought from Eng-land and Europe, but a few booksIn the custody of the Smith- ^j^^ pamphlets wcrc printed in soman Institution 7 . America. A printing press was setup in Massachusetts as early as 1638. Newspapers wererare. This is not surprising, because there were none in Eng-land until 1622. The Boston News Letter, begun in 1704,was the first in America. One was started in New Yorkin 1725, and another, by Franklin, in Philadelphia, eight. Franklins PrintingPress LANGUAGE IN THE COLONIES 135 Poor Richard, 1733. years later. All these papers looked like small leaflets andwere published once a week. Almanacs were very popular. One which Frankhn pub-lished was called Poor Richards Almanac. It contained, be-sides the calendar and listof eclipses, many bits ofhistory, proverbs, andpractical advice. Booksand newspapers werecostly, but everybodycould have Poor RichardsAlmanac. Franklinsrhymes and jokes andquaint sayings taught hisreaders many things,above all to be frugal andindustrious. One of hissayings was, Sloth likeRust consumes faster thanLabor wears; another,everywhere familiar, Early to bed, and early torise, makes a man healthy,wealthy, and wise. Language in the Colo-nies. — Though many ofthe colonists came fromthe continent of Europe,English was the languagespoken almost everywhere. It soon began to difTer some-what from the English spoken in England, because the colo-nists invented
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