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5th week 周三组美文欣赏素材(龙雨、谢立鑫)Modern American UniversitiesBefore the 1850s, the United States had a number of small colleges, most of them dating from colonial days. They were small, church connected institutions whose primary concern was to shape the moral character of their students.Throughout Europe, institutions of higher learning had developed, bearing the ancient name of university. In Germany a different kind of university had developed. The German university was concerned primarily with creating and spreading knowledge, not morals.Between midcentury and the end of the 1800s, more than nine