 | David Henry Montgomery - 1897 - 696 pages
...of sound knowledge and sound orthodoxy, met at Branford, near New Haven. Each brought a few books, saying, " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." Such was the humble beginning of what is to-day " Yale University." It was the second in order of birth... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - 582 pages
...ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions think." "I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony ; " such were the words of ten ministers who in the year 1700 assembled at the village of Branford... | |
 | William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Francis Trevelyan Miller - 1899 - 920 pages
...meeting in Branford each of them brought a number of books and presented them with these words ; — " I give these books for the founding of a College in this Colony." In 1701 the assembly granted a charter and determined that the school should be at Saybrook. In 1716 the... | |
 | Lyman P. Powell - 1898 - 656 pages
...forming the society met at Branford, and each donated a few volumes, saying as he laid them down : " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." Forty books were given, forming the nucleus of the great University Library. The first public commencement... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1898 - 654 pages
...fathers, who, in 1700, assembled at Branford, and each one, laying a few volumes on a table, said : .' I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony.' " But the political education of the people is due to the happy organization of towns, which here,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1898 - 654 pages
...fathers, who, in 1700, assembled at Branford, and each one, laying a few volumes on a table, said : .' I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony.' " But the political education of the people is due to the happy organization of towns, which here,... | |
 | Lyman Pierson Powell - 1899 - 664 pages
...forming the society met at Branford, and each donated a few volumes, saying as he laid them down : " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." Forty books were given, forming the nucleus of the great University Library. The first public commencement... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1899 - 402 pages
...1700, ten Connecticut clergymen came together, and each one laying some books on the table, said, " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." It was afterward called Yale College, in honor of Elihu Yale of England, who gave it a large sum of... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1900 - 528 pages
...Library was founded, ten Connecticut ministers met together at Lyme, each bringing a number of books, and saying, "I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." Such was the foundation of Yale University, an institution that has done inestimable service to the... | |
 | James William Buel, John Clark Ridpath, Marcus Joseph Wright - 1900 - 504 pages
...colonial muskets. Thereupon Fletcher retreated from the contest and Connecticut retained her liberties. " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." Such were the words of ten ministers who, in the year 1700, met at the village of Branford, a few miles... | |
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