 | 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... | |
 | Abigail Ann Allen - 1894 - 446 pages
...reference to founding a college in Connecticut, and closed by laying each a few volumes on the table, saying, "I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." These were the fitting germs of Yale College, which has grown in proportions and in power one hundred... | |
 | JOHN CLARK - 1894 - 328 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 1700, assembled at the village of Branford, a... | |
 | John Marshall Barker - 1894 - 276 pages
...forty volumes of books, and, placing 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." This was the humble beginning of Yale College. The colony had a population at this time of fifteen... | |
 | 1918 - 476 pages
...resolved to found it brought a number of volumes to the meeting and laying them on the table said: "I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." President Clap boasted, sixty-five years after the founding: "XV^have a good library consisting of... | |
 | A. U. Faulkner, Spenser O. M. Ovington - 1895 - 480 pages
...В ran ford, each of the trustees bringing an offering of books and laying them on a table said, '' I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony," Yale College may be said to have originated. Fearing THE LATE HON. CARTER H. HARUI3ON, '45. that if... | |
 | William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Francis Trevelyan Miller - 1899 - 712 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... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1895 - 652 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 happjr organization of towns, which here,... | |
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