Plate of the Society Pins, &c., worn as Badges, Exact View of Yale College, with its Scenery, 132 - 132 134 - 142 PREFACE. In offering this humble tribute to the memory of "Old Yale," the author makes no claims to originality, other than respects the plan of the work. The historian has already searched the archives of the past, and faithfully recorded, in a valuable and permanent form, the origin and early struggles of this institution, its days of gloom and uncertainty, and its subsequent rapid growth and prosperity. Nothing remains to be done by those who follow after, save to keep pace with time, and add the successive events ⚫ of its history. Yet it may not be amiss to give to these materials a more popular and accessible form, better adapted to general circulation, and thus to bring them before the minds of many readers who might be deterred from perusing a standard history, by their natural indolence or want of interest in the subject. |