 | Richard Gause Boone - 1889 - 444 pages
...a number of books, and, laying them on a table, presented them to the body, saying in substance, " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." These forty volumes, and the acts of the trustees at this meeting (1700), constitute the beginning... | |
 | Richard Gause Boone - 1889 - 440 pages
...a number of books, and, laying them on a table, presented them to the body, saying in substance, " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." These forty volumes, and the acts of the trustees at this meeting (1700), constitute the beginning... | |
 | 1890 - 588 pages
...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.' " It was a simple act ; in harmony with the faith and lives of the men who did it. But it was one pregnant... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1890 - 398 pages
...Ten worthy fathers assembled at Bradford, and each one laying down a few volumes on a table, said, " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." ' CHARACTERISTICS. garbage of vulgarity in sparkling prose. 14. ' The victory gained by Protestant... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1890 - 350 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... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1891 - 500 pages
...the colony, each laying down a few books — in all about forty, — each saying as they did so, " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony," and from this humble beginning has arisen the great university, which in 1890 had 147 professors and... | |
 | William J. Shoup - 1891 - 332 pages
...near New Haven, and each, placing a number of volumes on the table at which they were sitting, said: " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." This was the beginning of YALE COLLEGE, named in honor of Elihu Yale, of New Haven, who contributed... | |
 | Nebraska State Historical Society - 1892 - 360 pages
...forty volumes. Each of the eleven trustees gave a number of books, and laying them on a table, said: 'I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony.' Other donations were given in money, lands, goods and books. The early settlers in their deep poverty... | |
 | Edward Allen Tanner - 1892 - 450 pages
...cradle. The republic had in those days her Magi, her wise men of worship in the East. Says Ridpath: " T 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, a... | |
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