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A Modern History Of New Haven V1 - And Eastern New Haven County (1918) (Paperback)
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A Modern History Of New Haven V1 - And Eastern New Haven County (1918) (Paperback)
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CHAPTER III THE DUAL DEVELOPMENT THE COMMON ORIGIN OF THE TOWN AND
THE COLLEGE IN DAVENPORT'S PLAN THE VICISSITUDES OF THE COLLEGIATE
SCHOOL IN ITS FOUNDING AND EARLY DAYS, AND THE NEW HAVEN-HARTFORD
STRIFE OVER A SITE?THE PART OF ELIHU YALE AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
YALE COLLEGE IN, NEW HAVEN There have been some New Haveners so
narrow of vision as to resent the complete description of their
town as the home of Yale University. They are not the ones who know
that this was destined from the beginning. We have seen that it was
a trinity which John Davenport conceived?the church, the state and
the college. His ideal community was to combine the three. He died
without realizing one of them, and the spirit of the New World was
not to brook the dependent alliance of church and state. But the
college was to be a part of the Davenport community, though not in
his time. And the college was to grow, albeit with a far different
superstructure, on the foundation which he laid. In all this
ambition, as imperfectly they realized it, the people of his flock
were with Pastor Davenport from the first. They dutifully attended
those all- day Sabbath services, and sat, shivering but sanctified,
through their two-hour prayers and their two-hour sermons, each a
day's work for a minister, and requiring an able bodied assistant
to carry the service through. They submitted obediently to the
discipline which Governor Eaton measured out to evil doers, his law
being John Davenport's interpretation of the Holy Scriptures. Rare
were they who did not, through some seemingly natural weakness of
the flesh, find themselves evil doers now and then. The governor's
wife was not among the fortunate who escaped, but was publicly
punished for some offense of which the details have not come down.
Even in a l...
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