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We gather for this First International Conference on ‘the Collegiate Way’ in the embrace of a venerable ideal. The phrase, as we know it, derives from Cotton Mather, the Puritan divine of colonial Massachusetts, who reported that the founders of Harvard College rejected the notion that students should fend for themselves in the iniquitous city. They opted instead for what he called ‘a Collegiate Way of Living’ (Morison, 1935, pp. 251–252) and so built their little seat of learning as a residential college, on the model of Emmanuel and other colleges of Cambridge, housing together the students and at least some of their teachers.
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Ryan, M.B. (2016). On The Future of the Collegiate Way. In: Evans, H.M., Burt, T.P. (eds) The Collegiate Way. Contexts of Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-681-1_1
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