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Colonial Colleges
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List of Colonial Colleges
The
Colonial Colleges
are nine institutions of
higher education
chartered in the
American Colonies
before the United States of America became a sovereign nation after the
American Revolution
. These nine have long been considered together, notably in the survey of their origins in the 1907
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
. Seven of the nine colonial colleges are part of the
Ivy League
athletic conference:
Harvard
,
Yale
,
Princeton
,
Penn
,
Columbia
,
Brown
, and
Dartmouth
. (The eighth member of the
Ivy League
,
Cornell University
, was founded in 1865.)
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