...worthy fathers who assembled in Bradford, in 1700, and laying each a few volumes on the table said, " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony;" and that Harvard grew out of the dying munificence of an humble minister of the gospel. Though small...

...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...

...meeting, " each of the ten founders brought with him some books, and, placing them on the table, said : ' I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony.' " Nor did our forefathers confine their attention to the establishment of libraries in their higher...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...