The Reformed Church in America and higher education : with special reference to Northwestern Academy and College.

The Dutch were the first successful non-British people to establish themselves m the original thirteen colonies; New Amsterdam was settled in 1624 and, subsequently, the Dutch penetrated to the far reaches of the Hudson Valley. These "early" Dutch came not primarily for religious reasons, but for commercial and economic reasons. These people, from a tradition sturdy in the Reformed faith and one which recognized the cause of sound and broad education (their universities and common schools in the earlier days of modern times bear witness to this), early founded schools. The first of these was t... Mehr ...