E
1.3 Colonial Colleges by Percentage of
Colonial
Graduates Going into the Ministry,
1769
– 1775
College |
# into Ministry |
% into Ministry |
|
Rhode
Island |
14 |
50% |
|
Dartmouth |
23 |
50% |
|
New
Jersey |
72 |
>40% |
|
Yale |
68 |
35% |
|
Harvard |
|
<20% |
|
Philadelphia |
6 |
15% |
|
King’s
College |
2 |
< 10% |
Source: Bailey B. Burritt,
“Professional Distribution of College and University Graduates,”
US
Bureau of Education Bulletin, No. 19 (1912), 9 – 93; Richard A. Harrison, Princetonians
1769
– 1775: A Biographical Dictionary (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1980).