Scholasticism in the Colonial Colleges: Education of the Founding Fathers

James J. Walsh's Education of the Founding Fathers of the Republic: Scholasticism in the Colonial Colleges--A Neglected Chapter in the History of American Education (1935) is reprinted with a new foreword by John M. Peterson and new afterword by Jason T. Eberl. Walsh examines the history of the curriculum and doctrine of the early American colleges by examining their founding, their statutes, the careers and writings of their first presidents, the accounts of contemporaries, and above all t...