| Herbert Baxter Adams - 1893 - 362 pages
...erect a Collegiate School," i as if it had been founded before. Sewall and Addington had written, " We on purpose gave your academy as low a name as we...could, that it might better stand in wind and weather," and so it was to be merely a collegiate school, not a college. All through the charter we see instances... | |
| United States. Office of Education - 1893 - 1550 pages
...to erect a Collegiate School," l as if it had been founded before. Sewall and Addington had writteu, "We on purpose gave your academy as low a name as...could, that it might better stand in wind and weather," and so it was to be merely a collegiate school, not a college. All through the charter we see instances... | |
| 1893 - 1198 pages
...if it had been founded before, Sewai and Addington had written, "We on purpose gave your academy a low a name as we could, that it might better stand in wind aiu weather," and so it was to be merely a collegiate school, not a college All through the charter... | |
| 1895 - 710 pages
...thirty from New Haven, where Pierpont was pastor of a church in Davenport's place. Vale College Pounded October 9, 1701, the General Court of Connecticut...was chosen rector. In March, 1702, one freshman put in an appearance, and constituted the college undergraduate department for that year. The college was... | |
| Daniel Coit Gilman - 1898 - 340 pages
..."a 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... | |
| Joseph Stancliffe Davis - 1917 - 548 pages
...Progress; Not knowing what to doe for fear of overdoing. . . . We on purpose, gave the Academic a» low a Name as we could that it might better stand in wind and wether; nor daring to incorporate it, lest it should be served with a WrittofQuo-Warranto." Nor would... | |
| Franklin Bowditch Dexter - 1918 - 440 pages
...doubtless one of several names submitted to Addington and Sewall, for they say of it in their letter, "We on purpose gave your academy as low a name as...could, that it might better stand in wind and weather." Before its passage by the Assembly, the title was changed, so that it no longer read "An Act for Founding,"... | |
| Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe - 1928 - 230 pages
...chosen instead of "college" to avoid the risk of interference on the part of the British Government. " We on purpose gave your academy as low a name as we could," one of the reverend petitioners was informed, "that it might the better stand in wind and weather."... | |
| 1863 - 44 pages
...denominated, " Gymnasium Acadamicum ;" and in the correspondence about a charter, occurs the remark, " We on purpose gave your academy as low a name as we could, that it might the better stand in wind and weather." Still it awakened an interest, not only in the minds of New... | |
| Joseph Stancliffe Davis - 2006 - 992 pages
...our Progress; Not knowing what to doe for fear of overdoing. . . . We on purpose, gave the Academic as low a Name as we could that it might better stand in wind and wether; nor daring to incorporate it, lest it should be served with a Writt of Quo-Warranto." Nor would... | |
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