...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...