 | American education society - 1836 - 424 pages
...to the Rev. Mr. Buckingham, of Sayhrook, when they communicated their draft of a charter, remark, " We, on purpose, gave your academy as low a name as we could, that it might the hetter stand iu wind and weather : " a degree of caution, which, in the altered state of more modern... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - 1850 - 136 pages
...to call or qualify it, but that in a little time it might probably prove subversive of your design. We on purpose gave your academy as low a name as we could, that it might the better stand in wind and weather, not daring to incorporate it, lest it should be liable to be... | |
 | Simeon Eben Baldwin - 1882 - 106 pages
...drew the Connecticut Act for a " Collegiate School," and in their letter of Oct. 6th, 1701, they say: "We, on purpose, gave your academy as low a name as we could, that it might the better stand in wind and weather: not daring to incorporate it, lest it should be liable to be... | |
 | 1882 - 882 pages
...Messrs. Sewall and Addington, when sending their proposed charter say under date of October 6, 1701 : " We on purpose gave your academy as low a name as we could [Collegiate School], . that it might better stand in wind and weather, not daring to incorporate it... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1886 - 776 pages
...school or colledge : ' and in Connecticut, ' collegiate school ' was in vogue for seventeen years. " We on purpose gave your academy as low a name as we could that it might the better stand in wind and weather," said the well-known civilians who were consulted in 1701 by... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1886 - 720 pages
...or colledge ; ' and in Connecticut, ' collegiate school ' was in vogue for seventeen years. " We 01I purpose gave your academy as low a name as we could that it might the better stand in wind and weather," said the well-known civilians who were consulted in 1701 by... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1888 - 746 pages
...school or colledge" : and at New Haven the name " collegiate school " was used for seventeen years. " We on purpose gave your academy as low a name as we could that it might the better stand the wind and weather" was the reason assigned. Other academies or colleges in New... | |
 | james bryce - 1891 - 328 pages
...is called a " school or colledge ; " Yale used the name "collegiate school" for seventeen years. " We on purpose gave your academy as low a name as we could, that it might the better stand the wind and weather," was the reason assigned. Other academies or colleges in New... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1891 - 324 pages
...is called a " school or colledge ; " Yale used the name " collegiate school" for seventeen years. " We on purpose gave your academy as low a name as we could, that it might the better stand the wind and weather," was the reason assigned. Other academies or colleges in New... | |
| |
We on purpose gave your academy as low a name as we could that it might the better stand in wind and weather... 
