 | 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."*... | |
 | 1831 - 352 pages
...in this manner. Each gentleman gave a number of books, and laying them on a table, pronounced words to this effect, " I give these books for the founding a College in this colony." About 40 volumes were given. Various other donations in books and money were soon after added. In 1700,... | |
 | 1831 - 716 pages
...in this manner. Each gentleman gave a number of books, and laying them on a table, pronounced words to this effect, "I give these books for the founding a College in this colony." About 40 volumes were given. Various other donations in books and money were Boon after added. In 1700,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - 1835 - 614 pages
...upon the table several folio volumes, amounting in the whole to forty, with the simple expression, ' I give these books for the founding a college in this Colony.' In contrasting this course with the progress of some of the societies of the day, we could not but... | |
 | 1835 - 716 pages
...upon the table several folio volumes, amounting in the whole to forty, with the simple expression, ' I give these books for the founding a college in this Colony.' In contrasting this course with the progress of some of the societies of the day, we could not but... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1836 - 598 pages
...the same year, each of them brought a number of books, and presenting them to the society, said, " I give these books for the founding a College in this colony." Antecedently to this event, the subject had been seriously canvassed by the clergy, particularly Messrs.... | |
 | Edward Rodolphus Lambert - 1838 - 270 pages
...the same year, each of them brought a number of books, and, presenting them to the society, said, " I give these books for the founding a college in this colony." Antecedently to this event, the subject had been seriously canvassed by the clergy, particularly Messrs.... | |
 | Ebenezer Baldwin - 1841 - 370 pages
...number of books and presented them to the body ; and laying them on 11 the table said, these words : ' I give these books for the founding a College in this colony."* Then the Trustees took possession of them, and confided them to the care of the Reverend Mr. Russell... | |
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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" Then the Trustees as a Body took Possession of them... 
