The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-03
IN THE FAR DISTANT PAST.
WHEN LOTTERIES IS CONNECTICUT
 WE'RE IEG4LIzED.

Rev. MT. Lines Address at the Episcopal
 Academy. CsBtsnniai-Ths old Adyer-
 tisement of the Lottery Taken from the
 Journal and Courier of Ninety Years Ago
 Rev, Mir. Lines Of this city, in his clos auent address at the centennial ot Cheshire Episcopal academy spoke In the first portion of the address, which was devoted to accounting the early history of the academy-how il came to be founded and the difficulties en- oountered in raising the requisite funds for its equipment. of the aid the insti- tution received from the proceeds Of a lottery. II should be remembered that in those times lotteries were legalized by law and this lottery which gave substantial aid to the academy was legalized by the state of Connecticut. The portion of the address leading up 10 where the lottery in question was spoken of is as follows:
 Tn the year following the opening of the academy. Dr. Bowden informs the public that by the constitution Of the Episcopal academy, females are ad- mitted. They will be instructed In reading. writing, arithmetic. English grammar. geography. astronomy, the figures of rhetoric and the French lam guage. Due attention will be paid to them and they will be under the im- mediate tuition of the principal. Be- fore the school Is year old the profes- sor of the French language in the Cheshire academy informs the public that he proposes opening dancing school in the town of Chesh- ire, in which the minuet country dances and cotillion will be taught. The proprietors are within year find ing a reward for their investment. Will liam Law will sell an excellent farm within a mile of the meeting house, church and academy. and to the state ment that the situation is itself airy and salubrious. its prospect extensive and diversified, Is added the statement that 1t is within the reach of a flourish ing academy
 The school made good beginning under Dr. Bowden. His reputation as an instructor was established. The one institution of the churchmen or Connec ticut was meeting the expecta- tiors of its founder. Rev. Dr. Smith was requested to visit New York and solicit donations for the school in l7S7. In 1799 the convention voted that one or more agents should be appointed to go to Europe for the purpose of solicit ing donations for the academy. They were to go when the trustees should be possessed of unappropriated funds suf- ficient to pay their expenses, and -ap- parently, that time did not come.
 Dr. Bowden was principal for six years, resigning in 1902. Rev. pr. Will liam Smith was chosen in his place, It may be here noted that from f799 to 1903, Bishop Jarvis lived at Cheshire, having moved thither that he might place his son under Dr. Bowden'sj in4 struction., His son. was the distinf guished pr. Samuel sFarmaf Jarvis sot later years Dr. Bnwden became the professor of moral philosophy in Col umbia college and died in office in t1817 Upon Dr. Smiths election as principal measures were taken to increase the funds of the school by lottery. The legislature granted Ia lottery ir 1902 for $15,000, and after many delays sl2, 900 was received from 1t. Dr. Smith was ambitious and the desire to make a college out of the academy became strong. The convention of 1904 recom mended the trustees to apply to- the legislature at their next session, for charter empowering them to give de grees in arts, divinity and law, and tt | enjoy all other privileges usually granted to colleges. .,,d , The song of degrees has ever hat
 charms for the clergy. The school wa'
 often called in early days Seabury col
 lege, the name doubtess expressing thu
 hope of wish of the one using it. I'm
 writer may be permitted to say that h wishes the academy had borne th l name of the Seabury diocesan school. l Again in 1910, by vote of the conven
 tion, the trustees were requested to pre-
 fer a petition to the next general as
 sembly of the state of Connecticut
 praying that said academy may be con
 stituted college by the name an
 style of the Episcopal college of Con
 necticut, with all the powers, privileg
 es and immunities of 8 college. l The same request was mataa the nex
 year. 1911, but all in vain. The Con
 necticut legislature might grant tn
 Episcopal academy a lottery, but nc
 the power to confer degrees"
 An old and much esteemed citizen c New Haven who was much intereste
 in Dr. Lines address, hands the "Cou1
 ier' a copy of the Courier" of Thurs
 day, November 3, 1894, which contain
 the official advertisement of the lotter
 referred to in Mr. Lines. address. Tn
 advertisement read as follows:
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