A general idea of the College of Mirania
Subtitle: with a sketch of the method of teaching science and religion, in the several classes: and some account of its rise, establishment and buildings. Address'd more immediately to the consideration of the trustees nominated, by the Legislature, to receive proposals, &c. relating to the establishment of a college in the province of New-York
Contributors: Remsen, Henry, 1736-1792
Publisher: Printed and sold by J. Parker and W. Weyman, at the new printing-office in Beaver-Street
Published: 1753
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: Planning; Curricula; Higher Education; Universities and colleges
Notes: Outlining "a purely fictitious institution" to show the kind of college William Smith thought suitable for a new country. The concept informed the founding of the University of Pennsylvania. Cf. Wood, G.B.  Early hist. of the Univ. of Penn. (1896)

Signed on p. 81: W. Smith.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-K⁴ L⁴ (-L4)

Errata: p. [3]

Brown, J.C.  Bibliotheca Americana, III: 1006.

Sabin 84614.

Evans 7121.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Henry Remsen: autograph.