Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-362) and index.
Contents
pt. 1. Institutions. Oxford and Cambridge ; Harvard I : school of the Puritans ; Yale : precarious orthodoxy ; William and Mary : beleaguered Anglicanism ; The College of New Jersey : the dangerous middle ; King's college : battle for New York ; The College of Philadelphia : the perils of neutrality ; Three from the awakening : Rhode Island college, Queen's college, Dartmouth college ; Harvard II : a liberal turn -- pt. 2. Politics, Revolution, and intellectual culture. The colleges and the Revolution : New England ; The colleges and the Revolution : South and Middle.