...store of volumes those which he thought suitable, and laying them upon a table, said these words : " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." The number of volumes thus collected was only forty ; but they were all solid folios of the olden time....

...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...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Branford. " Each member brought a number of books, and presenting them to the body, said these words : ' I give these books for the founding of a college in this Colony' " Then the trustees took possession of them and confided them to the care of the Reverend Mr. Russell,...

...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,...

...Branford. " Each member brought a number of books, and presenting them to the body, said these words : ' I give these books for the founding of a college in this Colony' " Then the trustees took possession of them and confided them to the care of the Reverend Mr. Russell,...