Tarry at home travels . how they really think that thereis no other university in the world than have a fine quotation from something inan original document which says that the collegeis created for the bringing up of men who maybe of service to the state. ^ I was pleased theother day, when, in trying to find out somethingabout their Governor Hopkins, one of the patronsof Harvard College while there was yet no YaleCollege, I found the same expression. He diedin 1659 in London, and in his will endowed someNew England academies and gave to HarvardCollege the money with which to this
Tarry at home travels . how they really think that thereis no other university in the world than have a fine quotation from something inan original document which says that the collegeis created for the bringing up of men who maybe of service to the state. ^ I was pleased theother day, when, in trying to find out somethingabout their Governor Hopkins, one of the patronsof Harvard College while there was yet no YaleCollege, I found the same expression. He diedin 1659 in London, and in his will endowed someNew England academies and gave to HarvardCollege the money with which to this hour shegives the Deturs every year to deserving remark, is it not, that the money whichhe left, which was distributed to the legatees aboutthe time of the Treaty of Utrecht, now yields onehundred per cent annually for the uses of thistrust? Remember this, ye gentlemen of Con- Cromwell, in giving counsel for the education of his sons,speaks of service to the state as one of the purposes to be keptin 243 CONNECTICUT ) necticut who live at home at ease, when yousend down for joiir friend to ride up from liisoffice, and make your will. Men die, but uni-versities, they have a good chance to live. Thereare many Hopkinses in America. I wish thatsome one of them would tell me where our Gov-ernor Edward Hopkins was born — not in Shrews-bury, as Cotton Mather said he was. Was it inEcton? It was thirty years ago that one of the mostdistinguished graduates of Yale College said tome that it had a great advantage over other institu-tions because it pleased the Lord Ciod always tosend into the world exactly the right person tobe president at precisely the tune when he wasneeded. This prophecy of his has been confii-medas the generation has gone by. I was about to say that I had two grandfathersin Yale College in the seventies of the eighteenthcentury. Nathan Hale, whose statue looks outon Broadway, was not my grandfather. He neverhad any children, but he was the br
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