We print from the Collegian a list of such American colleges as can lay some claim to a respectable antiquity. Many of the institutions in this list can lay claim to very little else, having been far outstripped by their younger rivals in the race for influence and prosperity.
1636, Harvard University; 1760, Yale College; 1746, Princeton College; 1749, University of Pennsylvania; 1757, Columbia College; 1768, Brown University; 1769, Dartmouth College; 1770, Rutgers College; 1775, Hampden Sydney College; 1781, Washington and Lee University; 1783, Dickinson College; 1784, St. Johns College; 1785, University of Georgia; 1789, University of North Carolina; 1789. Georgetown College; 1791, University of Vermont; 1793, Williams College; 1794, Bowdoin College; 1795, Union College: 1798, Kentucky University.
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