 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1876 - 314 pages
...Kussell, in the year 1700; each of them in turn deposited on a table a bundle of books and said: " 1 give these books for the founding of a College in this Colony." President Abraham Pierson was elected November llth, 1701. In that microcosm, a college, there are... | |
 | Congregational Churches in Connecticut. General Conference - 1877 - 232 pages
...Branford. " Each member brought a number of books, and presenting them to the body, said these words : ' I give these books for the founding of a college in this Colony' " Then the trustees took possession of them and confided them to the care of the Reverend Mr. Russell,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1877 - 740 pages
...it better to be a living governor of New York than a dead colonel of the Connecticut militia. "* " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." Such were the words often ministers who, in the year 1700, assembled at the village of Brauford, a... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1877 - 742 pages
...thought it better to be a living governor of New York than a dead colonel of the Connecticut militia. " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." Such were the words of ten ministers who, in the year 1 700, assembled at the village of Brauford,... | |
 | William Maxwell Blackburn - 1879 - 752 pages
...fathers, who, in 1700, assembled at Bradford, and each one, laying a few volumes on a table, said, ' I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony. ' " The Church was congregational in polity, and established by law. The Confessions of Westminster... | |
 | R. H. Howard, Henry E. Crocker - 1879 - 512 pages
...in Branford, these men brought forty folio volumes, and laid them down on a table with these words : "I give these books for the founding of a college in this Colony." This body of men, acting for tha churches and ministry of the Colony of Connecticut, by this act founded... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1879 - 380 pages
...was formed." In 1700 ten clergymen came together, and each one laying some books on a table, said : " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony. This was afterward called Yale College, in honor of Elihu Yale, of England, who gave it a large sum... | |
 | Mary Elsie Thalheimer - 1880 - 434 pages
...his own scanty library, met at Branford, in 1700, and, depositing their gifts upon a table, said, ' ' I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." The first terms were held at Wethersfield, later ones at Saybrook; but in 1716 the college was planted... | |
 | 1887 - 528 pages
...Haven, where each man rose, and placing upon the table such books as he had brought with him, declared, ''I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." About forty volumes were thus deposited, t'he nucleus of the future library of Yale College. Elihu... | |
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