An Historical Sketch of Columbia College, in the City of New-YorkColumbia College, 1846 - 126 Seiten |
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An Historical Sketch of Columbia College, in the City of New-York Nathaniel Fish Moore Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
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Address adopted afterwards Alumni appears appointed April Assembly Bachelor of Arts Bishop charge charter city of New-York classical college edifice colony Columbia College commencement committee Cooper course degree delivered denomination Divinity Dutch Church duties elected endeavours England erected established February following month Freshman Class friends gentlemen German Language Grammar School grant Harpur honour ingston insti institution instruction James James De Lancey John Johnson King's College Lancey Latin Languages learning lege letter liberal Lieutenant Governor literary Mathematics Matricula meeting ment mentioned moneys raised Moore Nathaniel F Natural Philosophy November number of students October Peithologian Societies period person Professor professorship proposal province Provost received regarded Regents religion religious resigned his office respectable Robert Harpur salary Samuel Samuel Provoost sectarian seems seminary Sir Charles Hardy Society Stratford styled tained tion Trinity Church Trustees University of Oxford William Livingston youth
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Seite 65 - An act for granting certain privileges to the college heretofore called King's College, for altering the name and charter thereof, and erecting an university within this State...
Seite 22 - Commissioner for trade and plantations, both empowered to act by proxies; the LieutenantGovernor of the Province, and several other public officers ; together with the rector of Trinity Church, the senior minister of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, the ministers of the German Lutheran Church, of the French Church...
Seite 62 - ... or 700 were so only after about thirty years, when they were found, with as many belonging to the New York Society library, and some belonging to Trinity Church, in a room in St. Paul's chapel, where, it seemed, no one but the sexton had been aware of their existence, and neither he nor anybody else could tell how they had arrived there.
Seite 126 - An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Whose peaceful day Benevolence endears, Whose night congratulating Conscience cheers; The gen'ral fav'rite as the gen'ral friend: Such age there is, and who shall wish its end? Yet ev'n on this her load Misfortune flings, To press the weary minutes' flagging wings: New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns.
Seite 62 - The students were in consequence dispersed, the library and apparatus were deposited in the City Hall or elsewhere, and the College edifice was converted into a military hospital. Almost all the apparatus, and a large proportion of the books belonging to the College, were wholly lost to it in consequence of this removal ; and of the books recovered...
Seite 24 - extend to exclude any person of any religious denomination whatever from equal liberty and advantage of education, or from any of the degrees, liberties, privileges, benefits or immunities of said College, on account of his particular tenets in religion.
Seite 46 - I am very apprehensive none can be got in Old England (who are willing to go) worth sending. Let the Greek and Latin classics be well taught. Be this the first care as to learning.
Seite 115 - Here lies a priest of English blood, Who living liked whate'er was good, Good company, good wine, good name, Yet never hunted after fame ; But as the first he still preferred.
Seite 54 - The necessity and usefulness of a public infirmary, has been so warmly and pathetically set forth, in a discourse delivered by Dr. Samuel Bard, at the commencement in May last, that his excellency, Sir Henry Moore, immediately set on foot a subscription for that purpose, to which himself and most of the gentlemen present liberally contributed.
Seite 57 - He must have left this country very soon after his appointment if indeed he were not absent when it was made, for the writer of a letter from London, in the beginning of 1775, speaks of him as ' Parson Vardill, a native of New York, who has been here a twelvemonth, a ministerial writer under the signature of Coriolanus, lately appointed King's Professor in the College of New York with a salary of £200 sterling.