 | Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg - College students United States Biography - 1871 - 740 pages
...and presented them to the association, using words to this effect as he laid them on the table : " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." This act of depositing the books has ever since been considered the beginning of the college. The entire... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - United States - 1874 - 534 pages
...thought it better to be a living governor of New York than a dead colonel of the Connecticut militia. 21. "I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony.1' Such were the words of ten ministers who, in the year 1 700, assembled at the village of... | |
 | American College and Education Society - Education - 1875 - 418 pages
...of Branford, Connecticut, with books in their hands, which they, one by one, laid down upon a table, saying, " I give these books for the founding of a College in Connecticut!' So the infant institution was started on its way. The State at various times, and in... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1876 - 584 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,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - United States - 1876 - 436 pages
...Fletcher, thinking it better to be a living governor than a dead colonel, returned to New York. 20. "I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." Such were the words of ten ministers who, in 1700, assembled at Branford, near New Haven. Each of them,... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - United States - 1876 - 450 pages
...In 1700. ten Connecticut clergymen cnme together, nnd each one laying some bonks on n table, paid, " 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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - Clergy - 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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - United States - 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 - United States - 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,... | |
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