Excerpt from State Aid to Higher Education, Vol. 18: A Series of Addresses, Delivered at the Johns Hopkins University But notwithstanding these more or less general impres sions, it is nevertheless true that beneath and back of these specious appearances is the great fact that during the whole of the first two hundred years of our history, education in all of its grades was chiefly supported by the taxation of all the people. This is neither the time nor the place to multiply or to dwell upon details; the briefest possible notice of our educational methods in Colonial times will be enough in this connection to Show our general traditional policy. The great university at Cambridge is sometimes said to have been founded by John Harvard; but such a statement is true only in a very limited sense, for before that bene factor contributed the half of his fortune and the whole of his library and his name to the college an appropriation for that purpose had been made by the general court of the colony. This was only six years after the founding of Boston and six years before the establishment of the famous school system of Massachusetts Bay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.