Excerpt from Educational Institutions in the Religious Society of Friends I Propose to give some account of the principal colleges, boarding schools and other educational institutions conducted by Friends, from the time of the rise of the Society, about 1647, the present day. I shall treat of these institutions in the chronological order of their opening so far as it can be ascertained. In this account I shall attempt to include all of the most important educational institutions of Friends; and it should be observed that I use the beautiful and simple term Friends unaccompanied by any qualifying word, to which divisions in the society have sometimes given rise. All branches of the Society claim the name of Friends, and I prefer to accept their claim, and this is done with no desire to arrogate for any particular branch of the Society any of the credit which may be due for the influence of any of the educational institutions named. I have earnestly endeavored to treat all impartially, and I sincerely hope that Friends will be satisfied with the result. When it is considered how widely the materials for this historical account are scattered, and that no attempt at any systematic collection has ever been previously made to my knowledge, I may reasonably ask for kind consideration for any errors or omissions which may inadvertently have occurred. After presenting the various institutions in their chronological order, with such brief consideration as they may seem respectively to claim and as the limit of this paper will permit, I propose to close by a general summary and the presentation of such salient points in the methods and results of education among Friends as shall have been suggested by the consideration, in detail, of the different institutions. 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.