TO CORRESPONDENTS. We are obliged to divide the article of Experience,' (from whom we hope to hear soon again,) and still to defer some articles, to give place to public documents. The juvenile song was finished too late. We have no answer from our correspondent at Castleton. We shall secure other engravings of colleges, if practicable. In consequence of the early interruption of communication and delay in binding, it has not been practicable to send the fourth volume of the Annals to subscribers; and several sets lately ordered are detained. Both will be sent by the earliest opportunity. Only five or six sets remain unengaged; and we cannot supply single volumes without breaking a set. DISSOLUTION OF COPARTNERSHIP. The copartnership in the Bookselling and Publishing business heretofore existing between the subscribers is, by mutual consent, this day dissolved. JOHN ALLEN. WM. D. TICKNOR. BOSTON, Nov. 1, 1834. NOTICE. The subscriber having purchased of MR. JOHN ALLEN his interest in the business heretofore conducted under the firm of ALLEN AND TICKNOR, will continue the same business, in all its branches, at the old stand, corner of Washington and School Streets. NOVEMBER 1, 1834. WM. D. TICK NOR. IPSWICH FEMALE SEMINARY. THE ensuing Winter Term will commence on Wednesday, the 29th day of October, and continue twenty-five weeks, including a recess of one week. None are received under the age of fourteen years. It is desired that the pupils, at entrance, should possess a thorough knowledge of mental and written arithmetic, geography, and the history of the United States. Miss GRANT will be absent from Ipswich till a short time before the commencement of the term. It being important that all the applications be made before the middle of October, they may be addressed to Miss MARY LYON, though she will not be connected with the institution during the winter. In connection with the application, the name, age, attainments and moral character of the candidate for admission should be stated. As the number will be limited, it is important, in case of a failure after an engagement has been made, that information be communicated without delay. It will be expected, except in extraordinary cases, that the pupils will enter at the commencement of the term, and remain till the close, unless prevented by sickness. Board, including washing and lights, $1,75 a week. Tuition for the term, $15. The tuition and $25 of the bill for board and fuel, to be paid at entrance, the remainder at the close of the term. IPSWICH, SEPTEMBER, 1834. CHARLES KIMBALL, Secretary. WILLIAM D. TICKNOR PUBLISHES THE MEDICAL MAGAZINE. It has already arrived at the close of its second year of publication. But as it is about to appear under new auspices, we take the liberty to present its claims again for your patronage. The conduct of the Magazine is under the control of thirty physicians of Boston and vicinity, under the name of prorprietors, who choose its Editors, and feel themselves pledged to contribute for its support. It is now under the editorial care of Dr. J. B. FLINT, of Boston, Dr. E. BARTLETT, of Lowell, and Drs. A. A. GOULD and E. G. DAVIS, of Boston. To ensure valuable communications, the publishers offer one dollar a page for all original matter approved by the Editors. With such prospects of an interesting and well conducted Journal, we confidently solicit the patronage of the Public. TERMS: Published on the 1st and 15th of every month, at $4,00 per annum, payable on delivery of the third number, DISSECTOR'S GUIDE, OR STUDENT'S COMPANION; illustrated by wood cuts, clearly exhibiting and explaining the dissection of every part of the human body; by EDWARD WILLIAM TUSON, F. L. S., member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, &c. &c. First American edition, with additions; by WINSLOW LEWIS, Jr., M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy to the Medical School at Harvard University. AMERICAN ANNALS OF EDUCATION AND INSTRUCTION. FEBRUARY, 1835. YALE COLLEGE. MUCH has been said in our country, of the aristocracy of learning,' which is fostered by our colleges; but still it is found indispensable to resort to them, for those who are to become the guardians of our property, and our health, and the interests of religion. Among the multitudes who have declaimed against them, probably there is not one in a hundred, who is not indebted to them for some benefit conferred upon himself, or his family, by means of the knowledge they have diffused; to say nothing of the general benefit they confer upon the country, and thus upon every one of its citizens. There is another fact in regard to our colleges, which ought not to be forgotten by those who regard religion as hostile to learning, and refuse to admit any association between them. It is, that most of these institutions owe their origin to the love of learning and benevolence of religious men, and generally of clergymen. It is well known that this was the origin of nearly all those established at the early settlement of our country. The oldest Collegiate Institution in the United States is Harvard University, in Massachusetts, and we believe it is now the most liberally endowed. The next established was that of William and Mary, in Virginia, which has had very large funds, but whose spirit, we fear, has long since passed away. We have not yet been able to procure an engraving of either of these institutions, and therefore commence a series of brief sketches 52 Origin of Yale College. which we propose to give, with an account of the third institution established on this side the Atlantic,-Yale College, in the Colony of New Haven.* For some time after the authorities of this colony had resolved on the establishment of a college, they were induced to delay it by the remonstrances of the friends of Harvard College, and in place of this, sent an annual contribution of a peck of wheat or the value of it' for the relief of poor scholars, to be collected from 'every one in this plantation whose heart is willing to contribute thereunto.' In 1652, the subject was agitated before the General Court, but again deferred, on account of the feeble state of the Colony. In the year 1700, ten of the principal ministers in the Colony, were agreed upon by general consent, to stand as trustees for the erection and government of a college. They assembled at New Haven, and instead of contenting themselves with the cheap, modern plan, of forming a constitution and appointing officers, each laid upon the table several folio volumes, amounting in the whole to forty, with the simple expression, 'I give these books for the founding a college in this Colony.' In contrasting this course with the progress of some of the societies of the day, we could not but think of the significant expression, Words and deeds!' In the following year, a charter was granted to secure the property of the institution; a set of regulations was formed, a rector appointed, and eight students received members. In 1702, the first commencement was held at Saybrook. Here the college continued until 1716, when it was resolved to remove it to New Haven. The first college building was now erected of wood; one hundred and seventy feet in length, twenty in width, and three stories high, containing a dining hall, (used also as a chapel,) library, kitchen, and fifty rooms for students, at an expense of one thousand pounds sterling-a sum of no small magnitude at this early period. In 1718, the first commencement was held at New Haven, and thirteen graduates received the bonors of the institution. Liberal donations were received from friends of learning in England; among whom were Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Richard Steele, Burnet, Woodward, Halley, Bentley, Kennet, Berkley, Sherlock, Watts, and Doddridge. The most liberal donor was Governor Yale, of the East India Company; and in acknowledgment of this aid, which enabled them to complete their building, the trustees gave his name to the infant institution. The spirit of disorder which prevailed in the colony about this period, is said by the historians of the institution, to have produced corresponding disorder in the college,—are mark which might, perhaps, assist us in explaining the rebellions of later days-and years elapsed before the effect of this spirit, and of the changes *The engraving appeared originally in the People's Magazine. |