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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 6 | 6 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1860., [Electronic resource] | 6 | 6 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1861., [Electronic resource] | 4 | 4 | Browse | Search |
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: January 14, 1862., [Electronic resource] | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1860., [Electronic resource] | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1860., [Electronic resource] | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource] | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
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Yale University,
The third of the higher institutions of learning established in the English-American colonies.
Such an institution was contemplated by the planters soon after the founding of the New Haven colony, but their means were too feeble, and the project was abandoned for a time.
It was revived in 1698, and the following year ten of the principal clergymen were appointed trustees to found a college.
These held a meeting at New Haven and organized an association of eleven ministers, including a rector.
Not long afterwards they met.
Yale College, 1793. when each minister gave some books for a library, saying, I give these books for founding a college in Connecticut.
The General Assembly granted a charter (Oct.
Seal of Yale University. 9, 1701), and on Nov. 11 the trustees met at Saybrook, which they had selected as the place for the college, and elected Rev. Abraham Pierson rector.
The first
The old fence at Yale. student was Jacob Hemmingway, who entered in M