Scholasticism in the Colonial Colleges

Abstract

containing lists of philosophical and other propositions in Latin and Greek, which were printed for distribution among the audience on Commencement days in the colonial colleges.' They afford significant proof of a little appreciated fact: that medieval methods and scholastic philosophy survived in the secular university colleges of the English colonies, up to the American Revolution. And at a period when it is fashionable among popular American writers to sneer at our colonial colleges,2 it may not be out of place to point out