The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-08-21
YALB'S Big CELEBRATION.
Features Of the Coming Anniver-
sary Of the University.
a Tablet to lie Unveiled on the spot
~ hevr the IDStitutiOn WINS First
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Early His
tory Tint Recalls Familiar Names.

NEW HAVEN. Aug IA most inter
I cstinE ceremonial. it has just been decid-
( cd. viii mark the close of the frsg 209
I years of the history of Yale. II viii be
1 tne Uuvsiljua OF a tablet at Old Saybrook,
} comm moratius the spot where Yale Col
. Isge was organized. and where for the
I first sixteen years Of its existence the col
. iege was located The original house is
still standing. though remodeIcd. aq- can
. ro .oH nj S1ybrook Point
The bicertenuiaI at Yale in October has
renewed the old interest IN the birthplace
: of Yale and il is not unlikely that a pill
Grimase will be made To Saybrook during
/ the celebration week by number Of
/ YsIa's guests and officers. 1t has been
only recently. in fact that an accurate
story Of the establishment of Yale has
been compiled from the old manuscript
/ records Of the college. and this story has
materially altered some of previous Nuo-
I lions Of the early history of the institu-
: ton
I While Yale was not actually established
u@uI the fall Of 1901 such a collegiate
school had been in mind ever since the
( founding of New Haven colony in 16}S
+ John Davenport, the leader in the New
1 Haven settlement, was an English Univer-
sity man, and 1t was his plan Immediately
/ after he came 10 New Haven with his
/ London and Hertfordshire Colouists 70
plant college in the new colony In 16fT
B hardly ten years after the settlement of
{ New Haven, college lot was offered by
/ Lieutenant Governor Goodyear on the
. public green. but financial embarrass-
monts hindcrcd the undertaking. In 1860
/ a wealthy resident Of the colony. Govern
: or Edward Hopkins. left a Jcquest for
The fnrTv.lfrrr- of
+ Is grammar school was instituted instead
+ and has had a continuous history TO the
present time as the Hopkins Grammar
. school This school was for few mon, -
actually managed as a college. bit It's
. character changed and an hope of a o-I-
. iege was for a time abandoned
( lu lsN the successor of Davenport at
the New Haven Church Rev. James
+ FierTont, took up the project for a col
lese and il was due TO him almost en-
tire'y that this time it was pushed
/ through % conclusion. Pierpout had
+ been communicating with the Rev Cot
4 ton Mather in Boston regarding the
I founding Of a college IL, the New Haven
/ os Connecticut colony. and one Of the
/ eldest manuscripts IN the CoIIc-e ar
/ chiFes is the answer OF Mathcr. entitled
"A Scheme for a College" A year later
/ on August z, l70l. the first definite step
/ was taken. when q round-robin letter
sIgusd by the Rev. James Pierpout and
I four other ministers living in stratford
! was despatched By post TO two prominent
/ Boston men asking for a draft for col
I lege charter.
/ IL was a delicate point TO settle
I whether a school could be chartered by
/ the General Court instead Of by the SOW
/ creign. Harvard had been 80 chartered.
/ but the only other collegiate institution in
/ the country. William and Mary College,
! had received its charter from the sover-
: eigns whose names 90 bore The answer
[ Was satisfactory. and letters were then
{ sent 10 various Connecticut residents ask
/ ing for their opinions John Eliot
I young lawyer in Windsor, wrote in an
. sWeT 10 this letter some sound advice
/ which shows also under what difficulties
/ the ministers were laboring. Several
: QUESTIONS were prOpOUnded 20 him.
. Whether the Colonial Government could
7 erect a college that could not be over
/ set by law" 10 which he answered No
I as II was not necessarily the Kings pre-
I TgSatiyc 20 charter such school" as To
/ securing Donations. as 10 the title OF the
S-tnaster Of such n school 10 which he an
Z sNered that the title Of least grandeur
/ viii give least offence as 10 granting
/ degrees. TO which h. answered that such
/ school could not give authentic de-
! Erets- and the age limit OF trustees
i which was finally placed at forty.
]
| four incorporated townships in the Con
/ uecJIcut colony with an aggregate pOpu-
I latlou # about lJuaF Almost every town
I had its ChulCh. with its minister q cam
. bridge graduate. and there were about
. NIFTY college educated men IN the colony.
. Connecticut had sent it's boys 10 Harvard
since 1910. nearly sixty Harvard gradu-
" ales during THIS PERIOD having come rom
+ Connecticut towns. and of these Oue-Ihird
. from New Haven. The need Of "A col
. lege Ia Connecticut had become impera-
h. HH.a .H .HH IN
. Cambridge and of living there away from
. home kept many young fellows from
. college education. and IL was only the eN-
/ tTemeiy well-tO-dO that could secure one
= even then
. BY October 1901. Mr. Pierpont-s en-
. dcayOTs had reached a successful Culmi-
I nation. the Boston draft had arrived in
/ New Haven and the Assembly had met in
" New Haven and organized on Thursday.
. October 9. The revised draft of the char
( ter with PI-rpOuts corrections was ac-
/ cepted by the Assembly and by October
/ lG. lI1l. the college, known as The Cole
I gi1tc School Of Connecticut. was in OK
I tsteuce- Major James Fitch. Of Plaiuteld.
stepped forward at this date with a do
nation Of land and materials with which
! 10 build the college house. Ills gift did
not bear fruit though u was handsome
T one. 81 30 acres in remote township Of
. the colony and Of glass and nails with
/ which 10 construct the building Had the
gift been accepted it is probable that
Yale College would have been Fitch Col
| IeEe in PIaiufeld. Conn
| The organization Of Yale and the day
| whence Yale dates its history was at
SaybrDok Tuesday. November II. lIUl-
Seven Of the previously elected board Of
trustees met at the house Of the Rev.
! Thomas Buckingham and remained IN
session four DAYS. Those present were
} James pferpout- Of New Haven. who was
Z In. presiding officer. Israel CuauuCey. of
Stratford. Thomas Buckingham, of say
I brook. Abraham FiaTson. Of klliugW
Samuel Andrew. of Milford. No8di8h
Russell Of Aiiddletowu. and Joseph Web %.
OF Fairfield. The trustees framed mum
Der Of college laws which seem ant Iuat-
I'd and even humorous iu these days 4
course Of theological training was Er.o-
B ped out and entrance examinations set.
limited 10 Greek and Latin. II was vgt-
being IL convenient spot for students from
au parts Of the colony. and from western
Massachusetts
/ Al this meeting the first rector Abra-
. ham FisT=Iu. OF kIErEWGrtH was elect
] ed Thomas Buckingham was for six
months IN -iH1 the oIly student entered.
I but 40 the first comm -uCemeut. ia Sep
/ TENDER l1U.. the first degree was CON
frrTrd on one Nathaniel ChauuceE of
/ Yale. but under private destruction Of his
uncle. one OF the board of trustees His
diploma Is now owned by his descend uts
Iu Durham. Conn. and viii DE on eNllhI-
ti1u at the biceUt.uuiaL
Rev Mr. piaTsDu continued 10 instruct
do, pupils at Saybr0Ok until his death u
IlH} dividing his time between his Kill
hu&UpTrh Church and the school NJ Say
brp1h and this house was used UNI
lIuEuSAod as the new rector. the Rev
samuel Andrew lived Milford