<P> Yale College was founded by Puritans in 1701, and in 1716 was relocated to New Haven, Connecticut . The conservative Puritan ministers of Connecticut had grown dissatisfied with the more liberal theology of Harvard, and wanted their own school to train orthodox ministers . However president Thomas Clap (1740--1766) strengthened the curriculum in the natural sciences and made Yale a stronghold of revivalist New Light theology . </P> <P> New Side Presbyterians in 1747 set up the College of New Jersey, in the town of Princeton; much later it was renamed as Princeton University . Baptists established Rhode Island College in 1764, and in 1804 it was renamed Brown University in honor of a benefactor . Brown was especially liberal in welcoming young men from other denominations . </P> <P> In New York City, the Anglicans set up Kings College in 1746, with its president Samuel Johnson the only teacher . It closed during the American Revolution, and reopened in 1784 as an independent institution under the name of Columbia College; it is now Columbia University . The Academy of Philadelphia was created in 1749 by Benjamin Franklin and other civic minded leaders in Philadelphia . Unlike colleges in other cities, it was not oriented toward the training of ministers . It was renamed the University of Pennsylvania in 1791 . The Dutch Reform Church in 1766 set up Queens College in New Jersey, which later became known as Rutgers University and gained state support . Dartmouth College, chartered in 1769 as a school for Native Americans, relocated to its present site in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1770 . </P> <P> All of the schools were small, with a limited undergraduate curriculum oriented on the classical liberal arts . Students were drilled in Greek, Latin, geometry, ancient history, logic, ethics and rhetoric, with few discussions, little homework and no lab sessions . The college president typically tried to enforce strict discipline . The upperclassmen enjoyed hazing the freshmen . Many students were younger than 17, and most of the colleges also operated a preparatory school . There were no organized sports, or Greek - letter fraternities, but many of the schools had active literary societies . Tuition was very low and scholarships were few . </P>

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