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. : [Three lines of quotations in Latin]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 7121
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: Universities and colleges; Planning; Curricula; Higher Education
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.

Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.

Errata statement, p. [3].

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