Collectivism

Principle or system which would concentrate the control of the industrial occupations and interests of society in the hands of the people collectively, i.e., the State or some of its subdivisions, instead of leaving them to individual effort and control. Colleges of the U.S. Oldest are Harvard, founded 1650; William and Mary, 1693; Yale, 1701; Col. of N. J. (Princeton), 1748; Columbia, 1754; Univ. of Pa., 1755; Brown, 1764: Dart mouth, 1769; Rutgers, 1770; Washington and Lee, and Washington (Md.), 1782; Hampden Sidney, and Dick in son, 1783; St. Johns, Md., 1784; Charleston, and Univ. of Ga., 1785; Univ. of N. C., 1789; Univ. of Vt., 1791; Williams, 1793; Bowdoin, 1794; Union, 1795.