...minister! pave a number of books, and, laying them on a table, pronounced words to this effect : " 1 give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." About 40 volumes in folio were thus given. Several other donation!, both of bouks and money, were soon...

...this manner. 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. The trustees took possession of them, and appointed Mr....

...they met at Branford, each bringing three or four large books, and laying them upon the table, with ' I give these books for the founding of a ' college in this colony.' As it was doubtful whether they could hold property, it was agreed to petition for a charter. To promote...

...work had just been done, the pastors of Connecticut came forward each with his contribution, saying " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." In the days of Tennent and Edwards, the fathers of the Presbyterian church placed their students in...

...this : Each of the ten ministers gave a number of books, and, laying them on a table, pronounced words to this effect : " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." About 40 volumes in folio were thus given. Several other donations, both of books and money, were soon...

...after carried into effect, and with a ceremony peculiarly characterisic of the simplicity of tne age. " Each member brought a number of books and presented...body, and, laying them on the table, said these words — ' / gire these books for the founding of a College in this colony.' " Additions were soon after...

...meeting in Branford, and with a ceremony peculiarly characteristic of the simplicity of the age. " Each member brought a number of books and presented them to the body ; and laying them on 11 the table said, these words : * / give these books for the founding a College in this colony."*...

...venerable fathers who founded Yale College, brought forward each his stock of books with the words, " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony," yet it is not in this way, pre-eminently, that their sons have sought to build up the institution which...

...character with the simple manner of proceeding belonging to the age. " Each member," says President Clap, " 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 a college in this Colony.' Then the Trustees took possession...

...purpose, each one brought a number of folios in his arms, and placing them on a table, said, — " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony."* The learning contained in these ponderous tomes might not have been of much value ; but the spirit...