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man; Hist. Sketches; Lyte's History of
| University of Oxford; Vols. l and HUI
ber's English Universities; Ency. Brit.
University. The college and universe
| ty, however, were sometimes united in
| one corporation. Neuman says, 1.-THE
1 University Toulouse was founded in a
college; so was Orleans" Trinity COL
lege, Dublin, styled in its charter G59D
''The College Of the Holy Undivided
Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dub
lin," is both university and college, and
has ever since been recognized by the
queen as a "mater universitatis; but
the hope was not realized and the uni
versity and college have ever since re-
manned one, called in common speech
Unfortunately Trinity College. Dub
lin," Dublin University" 1.-THE Univer-
sity Of Trinity College, Dublin Nor
ischal college, Aberdeen, was founded
In 1893 as a college and a university,
with power of comforting degrees. And
so at the beginning of the seventeenth
century the students of an English uni
versity lived in colleges, were instruct
! ed and governed through colleges,
whether the university included a num-
Der of colleges or a single college and
among the buildings Indispensable for
every college were the great hall or
dining room and the living rooms or
dormitories.
In establishing universities in the new
world the limitations of the people COM
PEELED the founders to follow the exam
pie OF Trinity college, Dublin, and Nor
ischal college, Aberdeen, and not that
of Oxford and Cambridge. Upon the
same corporation was conferred the
power of the university in granting de-
grees and of the college in government;
and such community and the buildings
required for its use were known as The
College" The first appropriation to
endow a university" in Virginia was
made in 1907. In 1860 an act of the coll
onial legislature endowed THE Jlleoe,"
and In 1893 William the Third establish
ed the university, described in the char
ter as certain place of universal study
or perpetual college of divinity phil
osophy, languages and other good arts
ana sciences" and named it THE Col
lege of William and Mary In Virginia"
The settlers of New England early
felt the need Of local university, and
the first step was the erection Of a coll
lege, /. e.. building where the stu
dents We're to be lodged fed and in
structed, while pursuing the university
studies and qualifying for its degrees.
In 1880 the general court at Boston ad-
vanced e400 for this purpose, and sub
sequently appointed Newtown as the
seat of the university and for this rea-
son changed the rame of the town to
Cambridge. e. Mather's Magnolia, PIP.
Z s, ., 49, 20. Quincy's History Of Har-
vard.) In 1912 the court established
overseers of "a college founded in Cam
bridge" In 1850 the charter was grant
ed. The statutes Immediately adopted
provided that all students admitted to
the college must board at the com
mons" and also provided for prefer
ring the first and second degrees in arts. |
While the college exercised some of the
privileges of a university, doubt was
felt as to the power of the general court
to confer such privileges. The Colonial |
charter Of 1862 was construed as author
izing the court to erect university,
and Immediately as Mather says the |
general assembly granted "a charter to I
this university" authorizing it to grant I
degrees, "as in the universities OF Eng
land" This charter expired within |
three years from failure to receive the |
royal approval, ard the college was
subsequently reorganized under the
charter of 1850. The degree of y. d.
was conferred by the college in 1893 on
Increase Ma.her its president, who in
the degrees at the first COM
after the new charter, MAIN
tanned that the right of establishing
(academias) is reserved to
all those and to those only who hold
the sovereignty in the state" and that
the general court, under the charter of
1892, possessed such sovereignty. No
other degree Of doctorate was conferred
until 1771 when Nathaniel Appleton
was made doctor of divinity, and a few
years later George Washington was
made doctor of laws. The Massachu-
setts constitution of 1779 recognized
the University at Cambridge and
ratified and confirmed all the rights and
it had been accustomed to ex-
ercise
The colonies Of Connecticut and New
Haven were at first unable to erect a
college by themselves, and for some
years contributed to that at Cambridge.
The plan Of the college at New Haven
was early mooted and in 1854 steps
were taken towards its contamination.
wished to direct the bene-
faction of Governor Hopkins to the
founding Of a college and the court Of
that colony acceded to that plan. The
difficulties attending the union of the
colonies Of New Haven and Connectl-
cut Distracted the execution Of the
plan, and eventually the funds We're
appropriated to the Hopkins grammar
school. In 1898 the plan was revived,
and ten of the principal ministers
agreed to stand as trustees to found, |
erect and govern college. They form
ed themselves into society in New
Haven in 100, and the same year at a
meeting at Branford, they Tin the Ian
guage of TrumbulD founded the uni
versity of Yale college," q Trum Hist.
If Conn, 1929 In 1901 the general court
IF Connecticut granted to the said trus-
.ees the privilege of founding, endowing
md ordering a collegiate school," and
authorized them to acquire and hold
zeal estate not exceeding the value of !
c 500 per annum and personal property
% any amount for the use of said
school and for erecting and endowing .
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