Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; (1904) (14780182754)

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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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ong trail ofhonorary initials from learned societies, and by lifelong devo-tion to the college work, giving it an international reputation.Dana assisted and continued the work of the Sillimans in theJournal of Science. Whitney, indefatigable to the last,combined with the Indo-European studies that made NewHaven a center of philological study for the country, his laboras the guiding spirit of the Century Dictionary. Athletics, too, became bold enough to claim a gymnasiumas a college building, in which were actually the hitherto ques-tioned tenpins. This was a great contrast to the beginning ofthe century, when, if contemporary engravings may betrusted, men tried to pursue the flying football in silk hatsand tight coats, or even the later time, when, as the secondPresident Dwight records with glee, his class won both asFreshmen and Sophomores in the annual game on theGreen. From 1853 on, the hammer and chisel have seldom ceasedin Yales behalf. During President Woolseys term, besides 242

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CONNECTICUT AS A STATE the before-mentioned buildings, there were given and reared,the Art School, the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Augustus R. Street,who, by this building and a fund, provided for the encourage-ment of the study of art; Farnam and Durfee Halls, dormi-tories ; and the Winchester Observatory, to be devoted mainlyto original astronomical research; and the foundations werelaid for the Peabody Museum, the generous gift of GeorgePeabody, the American banker in London. With the Peabody Museum is indissolubly connected thememory of Othniel C. Marsh, who taking the chair of pal-aeontology in 1866, gave the remaining thirty years of his lifeto unremitting research in his chosen field, and to amassing analmost peerless treasure of fossils. He organized and con-ducted a series of Yale Scientific Expeditions to regionsdifficult of access beyond the Missouri River, bringing backin six years four hundred specimens of vertebrate fossils newto science. The expedition of 1871, at a cost of $4

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