AP601 Test 1

According to the Laws and Code of Conduct of Rhode Island College in 1783, for what transactions would a student be expelled?

Blasphemy Robbery Fornication Forgery As a final punishment if a series of lesser penalties was ineffective

The 1640-era tract of "First Fruits" stated that all of the following were primary concerns of the New England colonists:

Build houses Provide for livelihood Raise places to worship god Settle a civil government Advance learning

The first three colleges of British North America followed the pattern of Reformation Europe in that the university combined with what two entities to form a single compound entity.

Church State

In the wake of the Protestant Reformation, the abolition of this subject of study at established universities signified a clear break with the university education of the Medieval Period.

Church law

What newly-established colonial college became a solid front for new-light Presbyterians in the 1740s?

College of New Jersey

Originally referred to as "hospices" (hospitia in Latin) during the 12th century, this incorporation of student housing on campus would later evolve into what widely-used higher education term of today.

Colleges (from the latin Collegia)

According to our author, Roger L. Geiger, the most basic social purpose of American higher education is to promulgate what three things?

Culture Careers Knowledge

This dominant method of learning and examination in the medieval university involved a student responding to a master's question and counter-arguments.

Disputation

This popular, revivalist preacher was a central figure of the Great Awakening who preached to crowds of thousands. His criticism of the earliest colleges and promotion of enthusiastic religion would ultimately divide congregations and colleges alike. In his published Journal, for example, he wrote, "As for the Universities...Their Light is now become Darkness—Darkness that may be felt—and is complained of by the most godly ministers."

George Whitfield

What subjects make up the Trivium?

Grammar Rhetoric Dialectic (Logic)

1. The radicalism and blatant emotionalism of the Great Awakening soon divided the Reformed churches, and their associated colleges, into what two groups?

New Lights Old Lights

In Ancient Greece, the sophists believed that what discipline was essential to an individual securing political advantage in public affairs?

Rhetoric

During the Renaissance of the mid-14th century and after, a course of studies in this area took on great prominence at institutions of higher learning.

Studies of humanity

Bobby Wright's critical evaluation of "Indian education" in the colonial northeast claims that the following was the true motivation of early college presidents and leaders.

Surreptitious diversion of funds away from Indian education and to non-Indian college expenses

Around 335-334 B.C., Aristotle rented a building in Athens to establish this famous institution of higher education.

The Lyceum

Though religious tolerance was emphasized in its establishment, what religious denomination took the lead in founding and governing a new college in the city of New York in 1754?

The anglicans

What subjects make up the Quadrivium?

Aritmetic Music Geometry Astronomy

What critically important infrastructure did Thomas Hollis gift to Harvard College in 1722?

An endowed professorship of divinity

The primary cultural aim of American undergraduate colleges in the 1600s and early 1700s was to produce which of the following?

A gentleman

Ancient Sumero-Akkadian students studied under a Master to become what?

A scribe

Who was the first President of Harvard College?

Henry Dunster

What was unique about the founding of the College of Philadelphia?

It had neither religious nor government ties

What was a distinguishing element of the College of William & Mary?

Its royal charter

As the College of New Jersey's 6th president, this person modernized instruction more fully than any other to incorporate the new learning, introduced Scottish moral philosophy, harmonized theology with the Modern Enlightenment, and led the college in its commitment to patriotism.

John Witherspoon

As "no taxation without representation" became a rallying cry in the lead up to the American Revolutionary War, which of the following colleges was unabashedly loyalist to England?

King's college

According to the "First Fruits" account of Harvard's origins, what two languages must a student know before being admitted to the college?

Latin Greek

What extracurricular organizations allowed students to hone their literary skills, particularly public speaking and debate?

Literary societies

In 1355, during the Feast of St. Scholastica in Oxford, England, a violent and bloody riot took place between townspeople and students was initially triggered when students complained about this at a local tavern.

The quality of the wine served at the tavern

Which of the following did more than anything else to push colonial colleges into the new learning of the Enlightenment?

The teaching of Newtownian science

What two civic centers in Ancient Mesopotamia required graduates of local "tablet houses" to conduct their administrative affairs?

The temple and the Royal Court

What was the driving reason for the founding of Yale college?

To preserve the purity of religion