Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; (1904) (14782187292)

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Title: Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen;
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Morgan, Forrest, 1852- ed Hart, Samuel, 1845-1917 Trumbull, Jonathan, 1844-1919 Holmes, Frank R Bartlett, Ellen Strong
Subjects: Connecticut -- History
Publisher: Hartford, The Publishing Society of Connecticut
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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s has been broken by nonebut transient and superficial disturbances. There were new professors: the gifted Alexander M.Fisher, whose early death at sea Inflicted a lasting loss;Eleazar T. Fitch, the college preacher, of extraordinarily rareand varied powers of mind; Chauncey A. Goodrich, of per-suasive utterance and Invaluable personal Influence, knownalso as the son-in-law and coadjutor of Noah Webster; Deni-son Olmsted, whose text-books on Natural Philosophy andAstronomy, In a day when text books were few, carried hisname far and near. The Faculty now had organized controlof the students; the treasury, which had been for long yearsnurtured by the wise management of James Hillhouse, wasstrengthened. In the last years of his term, by the fund of183 I, $100,000, raised by determined effort. This assuredsuch permanence and security to the work as It had neverbefore had. In 1822, the Divinity School, for which Dwight had hopedand planned, was established as a department, and was made 238
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CONNECTICUT AS A STATE noted by its great light, the illustrious Nathaniel W. Taylor.The Law school, which as a private enterprise had existedfor some time, came under the wing of the college in 1824through the fact that Judge David Daggett, one of its ableteachers, then became the Kent Professor of Law in the col-lege. To Days period belong some buildings that have becomehistoric in college annals,—North College, the Old Chapel,Divinity Hall, the Cabinet, and the Treasury, all since demol-ished. The Cabinet was the repository of the collection ofminerals that Colonel Gibbs had brought from Europe andlent to the college. Its fame brought visitors from far andnear, and when in 1824 it was necessary to buy it or lose it, itwas felt that no possible effort should be spared to keep it;and with the liveliest satisfaction, the friends of the collegesaw the required sum, $20,000, raised, and the danger ofparting with the treasure averted. This beautiful collectionthus became the nucleus of