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By the end of the first quarter of the nineteeth century a number of our Eastern institutions –Harvard,Yale,Columbia,Pennsylvania – had some of the necessary
Ingredients of a university,but hardly yet the point of view.The were little clusters of the schools and institutes.Inneed just after the Revolution,the schools of Pennsylvania and Harvard assumec the somewhat pretentious title of university ,and,shortly after, the University of Virginia was founded under guidance of Thomas Jefferson.In the South,Georgia and later North Carolina began to rise.The substance in all these was mainly lacking ,thoungh the title was honored.There were rather feeble law,medical,and divinity schools,somewhat loosely attached to these colleges .It has been commonly recognized,however,that the first decade after the close of the Civil
War,that is,from about 1866 to1876,was the greatly flowering of the university idea in America.