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1. When did higher education in the USA begin?
2. What was John Harvard’s role in establishing Harvard college?
3. What were the aims of early institutions of higher education in the USA?
4. What institutions had been opened by 1776?
5. Did American colleges duplicate their English counterparts in all respects?
6. What did the American Revolution bring in the field of higher education?
7. Why did agricultural and engineering colleges come into existence?
8. When did liberal arts colleges in Yale, Columbia and Harvard become universities?
9. What is a graduate school?
10. When was graduate school introduced in America?
11. What does the word “school” mean as applied to an element of an American University?
12. When were women first admitted to American universities?
13. What was the major purpose of junior colleges?
14. What is the educational progress of the late 19th century like?
Reproduce the parts of the Text in which these words and phrases are used. Use these phrases in short stories of your own.
To found, to be named in honour of somebody, an institution of higher learning, to train men/women for something, to lay special emphasis on something, to open/to establish an institution, a residential college, a self-governing body, to raise a question, to bring about, apart from something, gradually, to hold a position, a liberal arts college, to come into existence, to exercise influence on something/somebody, to incorporate, coeducation, a community college, to expand one’s scope, to stem from something.
Consider the following statements and say if you agree or disagree with them. Use the introductory phrases given in the previous Units.
1. The College of William and Mary is the oldest educational institution in America.
2. Women were not admitted to the first colonial colleges.
3. The early colleges were residential ones and self-governing bodies like old English Universities.
4. The flowering of the first state universities came after the American Revolution.
5. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was established in the early nineteenth century.
6. No public institutions received the status of universities in the nineteenth century.
7. The majoring in a specific subject was practiced in the nineteenth century.
8. The general trend of higher education in the mid-nineteenth century was toward the training of men and women in separate colleges.
9. The 20th century saw the expanding of the scope of junior colleges.
10. Advanced studies are the ones which in progress and complexity are beyond the usual course and they very often mean graduate studies taken after the four-year undergraduate programme.
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