| Oscar McMurtrie Voorhees - 1910 - 486 páginas
...tradition runs that each said, as he laid his contribution upon the table, now in the Yale Library, "I give these Books for the founding of a College in this Colony." EARLY DAYS AT SAYBROOK. In October, a draft of a charter prepared by Boston friends was submitted to... | |
| Howard University. Libraries - 1910 - 34 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| 1913 - 486 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| John Francis Fitzgerald - 1914 - 200 páginas
...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... | |
| George Larkin Clark - 1914 - 816 páginas
...meeting in Branford, when each minister laid upon a table his contribution of books, with the words, " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." The contribution amounted to forty folio volumes pertaining to theology, with not a volume of classical... | |
| Eva March Tappan - 1914 - 300 páginas
...settlements onnecticut came together to found a college. Each laid a few books on a table and said, "I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." This little pile of books was the beginning of Yale College. The Connecticut valley being fertile,... | |
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