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 "which soon engrossed the public mind, the strong passions which revolution and war of necessity arouse, operated as a sudden and severe check to the intellectual development of the people, or, rather, turned that development almost exclusively into military and political channels. Of statesmen and soldiers, men great in action, we shall presently find enough. Thinkers are the product of quieter times."

The College of Rhode Island, now known as Brown University, originally established at Warren in 1764. was, in 1770, removed to Providence.

Rutger's College, established in 1776 and Dartmouth College, established in 1771, made up the number of nine colleges of which the colonies boasted at the time of the Revolution.Three of these were controlled by Episcopalians, three by Congregationalists, and one each by the Presbyterians, by the Dutch Reformed and by the Baptists.

 

1774—1775.

was a very bold and decided step which the people of Boston had just taken in regard to the ships laden with tea, and, as they had been forewarned, the immediate effect of it must be to bring them into direct collision with the mother country. Heretofore there had been much discussion as to questions 