A History of the University of Pennsylvania, From Its Foundation to A.D. 1770; Including Biographical Sketches of the Trustees, Faculty, the First Alumni And Others

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A History of the University of Pennsylvania, From Its Foundation to A.D. 1770; Including Biographical Sketches of the Trustees, Faculty, the First Alumni And Others
Thomas Harrison Montgomery
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Thus in the second half of the eighteenth century we find both the Universities upon that level of scientific, moral, and religious cultivation, upon which they upon the whole remained till about thirty years ago, when a new impulse began, the riper and permanent results of which are yet to come.** Dr. Christopher Wordsworth in his Social Life at the English Universities affords us more information as to the ages of the matriculants: Swift went to Dublin at fourteen. Gibbon entered at Magdalen,... Oxford, as a gentieman commoner (April, 1752) before he had completed his fifteenth year. And, that entries at that early age were contemplated as possible, is evident from the fact that there was a regulation at Oxford, which provided that students who entered at an earlier age should not subscribe the XXXIX Articles on their matriculation, bnt should wait till they had completed their fifteenth year. Out of a dozen cases taken at random, of men who studied at the Universities in the last century (not including Gibbon) I find three who entered at fifteen years of age, two at seventeen, three at eighteen, and four at nineteen.*^ The ages of the early graduates at the Philadelphia College show that they entered college life at earlier years than Dr.

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