what ancient languages did everyone used to learn?
Latin and Greek
was much known about science?
no
when did they start teaching modern languages at Harvard?
In 1782
what year was Harvard founded?
1636
what other schools opened soon after?
Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Dartmouth
which is the oldest of all them?
Harvard
what did most people become when they had graduated?
ministers or teachers
what year did Harvard start teaching medicine?
1782
what modern languages did they start to teach?
French and German
in the past, who went to college?
Only young men
besides medicine, what other subjects were offered?
law school
did they also teach history?
yes
Today, modern colleges are mostly made up of what?
smaller schools
are they specialized?
yes
can one school offer everything?
no
how similar were Harvard, Yale and Princeton when they opened?
nearly the same
did everyone study the same subject?
yes
could one school teach everything back then?
yes