...books 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 trustees as a body took possession of them and appointed the Rev. Mr. Rüssel of Branford...

...college in 1693, but a fire in 1705 completely destroyed the library so that it had to be begun anew (8). "I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony" were the words with which each of ten ministers presented the nucleus of Yale's library in a meeting...

...projected college for Connecticut, each one laid down his donation with the never-to-be-forgotten words : "I give these books for the founding of a College in this Colony." What a noble foundation for an institution of learning ! These forty folios, I doubt not, have been...

...college in 1693, but a fire in 1705 completely destroyed the library so that it had to be begun anew (8). "I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony" were the words with which each of ten ministers presented the nucleus of Yale's library in a meeting...

...number of volumes from his own library, and as he came forward to place them on Russel's table he said, "I give these books for the founding [of] a college in this colony" (1). The 40-odd books thus collected became the foundation of both Yale University and its great library,...

...each minister stepped forward in his turn and, laying a pile of books on the table, said solemnly: "l give these books for the founding of a college in this colony" — surely a modest start. The next year a charter was obtained, and for the following fifteen years,...

...Connecticut ministers gathered in 1699, each bringing a number of books which he laid on the table saying, "I give these books for the founding of a College in this Colony."3 And Samuel Davies, president of the College of New Jersey at Princeton, wrote that "a large...

...university, began in Connecticut's village of Branford when ten preachers each set a few books on a table, saying, "I give these books for the founding of a College in this Colony." Today's public schools represent secular education. The word "secular" means, "pertaining to this world,...

...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,...

...wheat (because there was no money) to found the consecrated halls of Harvard, Christo et ecdesiœ ; and when that work had just been done, the pastors...seen the " man of Ross" at Newburyport, expending bis tens of thousands and his hundreds of thousands on the bleak hill of Andover. The object then of...