| Howard University. Libraries - 1910 - 34 pages
...each several books, and presenting them ' to the Body, (that is to say, the corporation), said — "I give these books for the founding of a college in this Colony." Now since the founding of Yale College, two hundred odd years ago, theories of education have changed... | |
| 1910 - 596 pages
...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 of a College in this Colony.' Then the Ministers as a Body took possession of them; and appointed the Rev. Mr. Russel, of Branford,... | |
| Orison Swett Marden - 1911 - 888 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,... | |
| 1911 - 586 pages
...and presented them to the body, and laying them on the table said these words, or to this effect: "l give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." Then the trustees as a body took possession of them and appointed the Rev. Mr. Russel of Branford as... | |
| Stephen Jenkins - 1913 - 640 pages
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| 1913 - 486 pages
...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.' '' The Trustees placed these books in the care of the Rev. Mr. Russell of Branford, as Librarian. The... | |
| Cora Pierson Hopkins - 1913 - 80 pages
...Each gentleman gave a number of books, and laying them upon a table pronounced words to this effect: ' I give these books for the founding of a college in this Colony.' About forty volumes in folio were thus given." After mature deliberation, doubts arising whether the... | |
| Stephen Jenkins - 1913 - 644 pages
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| John Francis Fitzgerald - 1914 - 200 pages
...worthy fathers who assembled in Banford in 1700, and laying each a few volumes upon the table said, "I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony" — and these two universities were born in a wilderness. What inspiration you must get from the history... | |
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