Mike Heath

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Princeton, Witherspoon wrote a speech describing the college’s approach. The curriculum was the classical one of Greek and Latin languages, philosophy, history, and mathematics. But he also was making room for the teaching of science, as well as English and French literature, at the time considered daring moves.
First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
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