convenient chambers, besides the Hall, Library, and Kitchen, and cost about £1000 sterling."

On the 13th September, 1718, the first public commencement was held at New Haven; when "the trustees, in commemoration of Gov. Yale's great generosity, called the collegiate school, after his name, "Yale College." "Yale College." On this occasion eight young men received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and a number were admitted to the degree of Masters.

On the same day, a commencement was held at Wethersfield, and five scholars received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. These afterwards received regular diplomas under the authority of Yale College.

The prosperity of the institution at this period, was owing to the donations of Gov. Yale, more than to those of any other benefactor: a short shetch of his life and character, therefore, may not be deemed uninteresting in closing this section.

Gov. Yale was born in New Haven in 1648. He went to England at the age of ten years; at about thirty he removed to the East Indies, where he lived nearly twenty years; acquired a very great estate; was made Governor of Fort St. George; and married an Indian lady of fortune, the relict of Gov. Hinmers, his predecessor. After

his return to London, he was chosen Governor of the East India Company, and made the donations before mentioned. He was a gentleman who greatly abounded in good humor and generosity, as well as in wealth; and his name and memory will be gratefully perpetuated in Yale College.* The following is a copy of the inscription upon his monument in the church-yard at Wrexham :

"UNDER THIS TOMB LYES INTERR'D

ELIHU YALE, OF PLACE-GRONOW, ESQ.; BORN 5th APRIL, 1648, AND DYED THE 8th OF JULY, 1721, AGED 73 YEARS.

"Born in America, in Europe bred,

In Afric travell❜d and in Asia wed,

Where long he liv'd and thriv'd; at London dead.
Much good, some ill he did: so hope all's even,
And that his soul thro' mercy's gone to heaven.

"You that survive and read, take care
For this most certain exit to prepare,

For only the actions of the just,

Smell sweet and blossom in the dust."

The following cut is a copy of the portrait of Gov. Yale, now deposited in the Trumbull Gallery.

This portrait was presented to the College in 1789, by Dudley North, Esq., grandson of Gov. Yale. The following inscription was placed under an engraved likeness of Governor Yale, sent to the College at an early period :

EFFIGIES CLARISSIMI VIRI D.D. ELIHU YALE,
LONDINENSIS ARMIGERI.

En vir! cui meritas laudes ob facta, per orbis
Extremos fines inclyta fama dedit.
Aequor arans tumidum, gazas adduxit ab Indis,
Quas ille sparsit munificante manu:
Inscitiæ tenebras, ut noctis luce coruscâ
Phoebus, ab occidvis pellit et ille plagis.

Dum mens grata manet, nomen laudesque YALENSES
Cantabunt SOBOLES unanimique PATRES.

Dr. Percival has thus imitated this inscription.

Behold the man, for generous deeds renown'd,

Who in remotest regions won his fame;
With wise munificence he scattered round

The wealth that o'er the sea from India came.
From western realms he bids dark ignorance fly,
As flies the night before the dawning rays:
So long as grateful bosoms beat, shall high

YALE's sons and pious fathers sing his praise.

We have thus devoted more room to the early annals of Yale College, than we shall be able to bestow upon its subsequent history. The origin of such an institution usually possesses a higher interest than its gradual progress, since the principles upon which it is founded must be in a great measure the cause of its subsequent fortune: we shall therefore proceed in our narration with more conciseness, only remarking, that the succeeding events, in consequence of the uninterrupted prosperity and steady progress of the College, will not need to be illustrated with that minuteness of detail, which the conflicts of its early history seemed to require.

SECTION II.

FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COLLEGE AT NEW HAVEN TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, INCLUDING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE REV. TIMOTHY CUTLER, S. T. D., THE REV. ELISHA WILLIAMS, THE REV. THOMAS CLAP, AND THE REV. NAPHTALI Daggett, S. T. D.

THE College being now permanently located at New Haven, the trustees in March, 1719, elected the Rev. Timothy Cutler to the office of Rector. Mr. Cutler was popular both with the clergy and the students, and for three years the college enjoyed uninterrupted prosperity. But at the Commencement in 1722, it appeared that the Rector, and Mr. Brown, one of the tutors, had embraced episcopacy, and desired to dissolve their connection with the college, and visit England for Episcopal ordination. "This event was somewhat surprising to the trustees and to the body of the people; for at that time there was not one Episcopal minister in the colony of Connecticut ; and but very few of the laity, who were episcopally inclined.”*

* Clap's Annals, p. 32.