ture said to them as late as 1865 : you can now care for your benig- 

 nant mother better than I can, therefore I pension her off and en- 

 trust her fortunes to your generous keeping. 



The policy of Massachusetts was the policy of Connecticut. 

 Long before Elihu Yale gave the final impulse for the founding of 

 the college which was to bear his name, the General Court had care- 

 fully considered the establishment of such an institution. The sub- 

 ject was postponed from time to time, not because there was any 

 question as to the propriety of founding such an institution ; but be- 

 cause the population was as } 7 et too sparse and too poor to furnish the 

 pupils for two colleges in New England. And so it was not till more 

 than sixty years had passed after the founding of Harvard that the 

 second New England College was established. But after its estab- 

 lishment its history was much like that of its elder sister. During 

 the whole of the last century, as the first President Dwight has said 

 in his History, it was to the bounty of the Legislature of Connecticut 

 that the support of Yale College was chiefly due. Again and again 

 all other resources failed. It was the legislature that erected old 

 Connecticut Hall and gave to it the name of its benefactor. 



Then look at the history of Dartmouth. The college began as a 

 work of charity. Gradually it grew into something more than a 

 secondary school. But during the years of its early growth, it never 

 hesitated to call for aid upon the Legislature of New Hampshire ; 

 and its call was seldom heard in vain. It educated many of the sous 

 of Vermont, and in due time it called upon the Green Mountain 

 State for its share of assistance. A cheerful recognition of the ob- 

 ligation was the result. The land of a township was given to the 

 college, and a record of the fact was stamped into the history and 

 upon the map of the state by giving to the town the name of the 

 college president. 



What was true of the method that prevailed in New England was 

 also true of the South. William and Mary, the second college estab- 

 lished in the Colonies, took its name from the. royal benefactors who 

 made the first large contribution for its support out of the public 

 treasury. The Colony was also taxed in behalf of the institution. 

 A part of the value of every pound of tobacco raised in Virginia had 

 to go into the treasury for the benefit of the college. This contin- 

 ued throughout colonial days. And when Jefferson conceived the 

 plan of the University of Virginia, in some respects the grandest ed- 



