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A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation

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CON NEe TIC U T. 203<br />

"cunque ad hoc munus evocatus fueris."<br />

For Bachelors the fame, mutatis mutandis.<br />

A diploma on vellum with the feal <strong>of</strong><br />

the College is given to each MaO:er, and<br />

figned by the prefident and fix fellows or<br />

overfeers. The firO: degrees <strong>of</strong> Mailers<br />

were given in 1702. The ftudents <strong>of</strong><br />

late year$ have amounted to about 180.<br />

They dine in the common-hall at four<br />

tables, and the tutors and graduates at a<br />

fifth. The number <strong>of</strong> the whole is<br />

about 200.<br />

Yale College is built with wood, and<br />

painted <strong>of</strong> a' &y colour; is 160 feet long,<br />

and three ftories high, befides garrets. In<br />

1754, another building, <strong>of</strong> brick, 100 feet<br />

long, and alfo three ftories high, exclufive<br />

<strong>of</strong> the garrets, with double rooms<br />

and a double front, was added, and<br />

called <strong>Connecticut</strong> Hall. About 1760,<br />

a very elegant chapel and library were<br />

erected, with brick, under one ro<strong>of</strong>.<br />

But it cannot be [upp<strong>of</strong>ed the latter is to<br />

be<br />

.- .<br />

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