The Compend of Logick is an interesting illustration of late eighteenth-century American collegiate education. Student Caesar Augustus Rodney penned the work in 1788 frrom a course on logic taught by moral philosophy professor Samuel Magaw. The notebook is a noteworthy manuscript from the early days of an influential university--the University of the State of Pennsylvania--in the hands of a student who would later become an important legal and political figure in the early republic.

An early Welsh emigrant to Pennsylvania, David Evans was educated at Yale (1713) before answering the call to Presbyterian pulpits in the Welsh Tract of Delaware and Pennsylvania, and to the church at Pilesgrove, N.J. Written entirely in Latin in 1747 when Evans was 66 years old, the Aliquot Rudimenta Physicae consists of four separate compendia bound together, the Compendium Technologiae, Logicae, Rhetoricae, and Physicae. The work is an interesting and thorough attempt to summarize a system of knowledge with impeccable American provenance.