Sketches of Yale College: With Numerous Anecdotes, and Embellished with More Than 30 EngravingsSaxton & Miles, 1843 - 192 sider |
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anecdote Annals of Yale apparatus appointed Professor attend Badge bell BENJAMIN SILLIMAN Cabinet Calliopean candidates chapel character Chemistry Clap's Annals College edifices collegiate school colony Commencement Connecticut Connecticut Hall course of lectures degree Denison Olmsted dollars donations elected Eli Ives Elizur Goodrich erected examination exercises Faculty feet fessor Goodrich Greek Hall Haven honors insti institution instruction Instructor Jeremiah Day Jonathan Knight Junior Latin learning lege line of College Linonian Literature LL.D matics and Natural Medical ment monument moral morning Naphtali Daggett Natural Philosophy Oration premium present President Clap President Daggett President Stiles prize Professor of Divinity Professor of Mathematics Professor of Rhetoric professorship prosperity received recitation Rector resignation Saybrook Scroll and Key SECTION Senior class Silliman Skull and Bone slumber Society Theological Building Thomas Clap tion Trumbull Gallery trustees Tutor Wethersfield whole Yale College
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Side 77 - ... residence here will allow. It is intended to maintain such a proportion between the different branches of literature and science, as to form a proper symmetry and balance of character. In laying the foundation of a thorough education, it is necessary that all the important faculties be brought into exercise. When certain mental endowments receive a much higher culture than others, there is a distortion in the intellectual character. The powers of the mind are not developed in their fairest proportions...
Side 17 - The matter about a College at New Haven, was thought to be too great a charge for us of this jurisdiction to undergo alone...
Side 78 - It contains those subjects only which ought to be understood by every one who aims at a thorough education. The principles of science and literature are the common foundation of all high intellectual attainments. They give that furniture, and discipline, and elevation to the mind, which are the best preparation for the study of a profession, or of the operations which are peculiar to the higher mercantile, manufacturing, or agricultural establishments.
Side 19 - October, 1701, a petition was presented to that body, signed by many ministers and others, which stated " that from a sincere regard to and zeal for upholding the Protestant religion by a succession of learned and orthodox men...
Side 39 - College, and served his own generation by the will of God, with serenity and calmness, he fell on, sleep, the 7lh day of January, 1767, in his sixty-fourth year. " Death, great proprietor of all, 'Tis thine to tread out empires, And to quench the stars.
Side 26 - Born in America, in Europe bred, In Afric travelled, and in Asia wed ; Where long he liv'd and thriv'd — in London dead. Much good, some ill he did, so hope all's even, And that his soul through mercy's gone to heaven...
Side 26 - And that his soul thro' mercy's gone to heaven. " You that survive and read, take care For this most certain exit to prepare, For only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
Side 20 - Cases of Conscience, he shall make, or cause to be made, from Time to Time, such Explanations as may (through the Blessing of God) be most conducive to their Establishment in the Principles of the Christian Protestant Religion.
Side 43 - ... and authority, in as full and ample a manner, as though they had been expressly named and included in said charter : and that in case of vacancy, by death or resignation, or in any other way, of any of the present fellows of said college, and their successors, every such vacancy shall forever hereafter be supplied by them, and their successors, by election, in the same manner as though this act had never passed : and that the said governor, lieutenant governor, and senior assistants, or any four...
Side 77 - ... nor to finish the details of either a professional or practical education ; but to commence a thorough course, and to carry it as far as the time of the student's residence here will allow.