Yale College, a Sketch of Its History, Vol. 1 of 2
Author: William L. Kingsley
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-10-22
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780266607984
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Yale College, a Sketch of Its History, Vol. 1 of 2: With Notices of Its Several Departments, Instructors, and Benefactors, Together With Some Account of Student Life and Amusements, by Various Authors IN submitting to my fellow alumni this collection of papers relating to the history of their alma mater, and of its various departments, some few words of explanation seem fitting. In the autumn of 1875, several requests having been simultaneously made by differ ent persons to the Faculty for their sanction and assistance in the preparation of a pictorial history and description of the College, 'the subject was taken into considera tion at a general meeting of the Professors of the different departments. At this meeting, such objections were made to the project that it was abandoned. But, as the result of the consultation, a new plan was devised, and the present editor and pub lishers - who are all of them alumni of the institution - were informed then, for'the first time, of what had been proposed, and were requested to take the work in charge. The labors of the editor were substantially ended in a twelvemonth; but, owing to the depressed financial condition of the country, the final completion and publication of these volumes have been postponed till now. AS no history of the College has appeared since the Sketch by Professor james L. Kingsley in 1835, it seemed desirable that a new and somewhat extended historical account should be furnished. In its preparation, the writer has thought it best to give, throughout the whole narrative, greater prominence to the contemporary history than has been thought necessary heretofore, from the conviction that a proper understand ing of the political complications of the times, and especially of the differences at the close of the seventeenth century in the religious and ecclesiastical views of the people of the New Haven Colony from those generally held in other parts of Connecticut, would remove some misconceptions which have been entertained in certain quarters respecting the origin of the College and the early policy of its founders. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
