 Its charter promoted a college without a religious test for admission, was practice and profession oriented, public spirited, inclusive and diverse, and taught the then new disciplines of English literature and moral philosophy.It was polytechnic in scope, teaching math, science, history, commerce, government, and nature.Colonial Historian Richard Gummere noted that, "Had Johnson himself offered a specific course for each of these fields, he would have been presiding, "mutatis muntandis," over the equivalent of a twentieth-century university."