 | Ebenezer Baldwin - 1831 - 348 pages
...meeting in Branford, and with a ceremony peculiarly characteristic of the simplicity of the age. " Each member brought a number of books and presented them to the body ; and laying them on 11 the table said, these words : * / give these books for the founding a College in this colony."*... | |
 | Sidney Willard - 1832 - 560 pages
...character with the simple manner of proceeding belonging to the age. " Each member," says President Clap, " brought a number of books and presented them to the...body; and laying them on the table said these words, ' I give these books for the founding a college in this Colony.' Then the Trustees took possession... | |
 | Sylvester W. Burley - 1876 - 900 pages
...trustees or undertakers to found, erect and govern a college." They met at Branford, and each trustee " brought a number of books and presented them to the...body, and laying them on the table said these words: 'I give these books for the founding a college in this colony.' The number of volumes thus collected... | |
 | 1890 - 588 pages
...theirmother country. " Each member," says President Clapp in his simple account of the founding of Yale, " brought a number of books and presented them to the...body ; and laying them on the table, said these words : ' I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony.' " It was a simple act ; in harmony... | |
 | James Blackstone Memorial Library (Branford, Conn.) - 1897 - 138 pages
...of Connecticut, which they did at their next meeting at Branford in the following manner, namely : each member brought a number of books and presented...on the table, said these words, or to this effect : ' I give these books for the founding a college in this Colony.' Then the trustees as a body took... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1897 - 940 pages
...family, eleven trustees selected by him, nine of whom were graduates of Harvard, " met at Branford. each member brought a number of books and presented...them to the body, and laying them on the table said words to this effect : ' I give these books for the Collegiate School, "that it might better stand... | |
 | George Hutchinson Smyth - 1898 - 380 pages
...is not a very common book, and I may be excused for quoting his exact language. "In the year 1700, 'The Ministers so nominated met at New Haven, and...on the table said these words, or to this effect, " I give these books for the founding a college in this Colony." Then the trustees, as a body, took... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1901 - 714 pages
...Joseph Webb, of Fairfield. 256 Intellectual Life [1698-1717 The Ministers so nominated, met at New-Haven and formed themselves into a Body or Society, to consist..."/ give these Books for the founding a College in this Colony." Then the Trustees as a Body took Possession of them ; and appointed the Rev. Mr. Kitssel... | |
 | 1910 - 596 pages
...Ministers and People to stand as Trustees or Undertakers, to found, erect and govern a college. * * * * The Ministers so nominated, met at New Haven, and...on the Table, said these Words, or to this effect: 'I give these Books for the Founding of a College in this Colony.' Then the Ministers as a Body took... | |
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Each member brought a number of books and presented them to the body ; and laying them on the table, said these words, or to this effect : 'I give these books for the founding a College in this Colony. 
