Notes 



collection soon outgrew its quarters, and removing to 

 Chambers Street the society continued there until 1840 

 when it occupied a building of its own at the corner of 

 Broadway and Leonard Street. Hardly was it settled 

 here when the growth of the business section of the city 

 forced it to seek new quarters. It established itself for 

 a time in Astor Place, and then in 1857 removed to its 

 present home in University Place. 



Note XIV. f y^'7 

 Money for the founding of what in Burnaby's time was 

 King's College and is now Columbia University was raised 

 by a public lottery set afoot by the provincial assembly of 

 New York. Trinity Church gave it for a site the plot of 

 ground now bounded by College Place, and by Church, 

 Murray and Barclay Streets; and the three-story building 

 of stone erected thereon was first occupied in 1760, six 

 years after the college received its charter. Samuel John- 

 son, who forty years before had helped in the founding of 

 Yale College, was its first president, and had at the outset 

 but a single assistant. The first graduating class, that of 

 1758, numbered only eight; but the college grew from 

 year to year in numbers and efficiency, and when Dr. 

 Johnson resigned the presidency, in 1763, he had laid a 

 sure foundation for his successors. 



Note XV. - ■ ^ ' ^' 



Two Kissing Bridges have a place in the early history 



of New York. In the opening years of the last century, a 



small stream called the Saw-kill was spanned at the present 



intersection of Third Avenue and Seventy-seventh Street 



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