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We should nationally be proud of it-as, indeed, there is no denying that we are, I believe- and our colleges, literary institutions and schools, should, with grateful unanimity, avow their honor for it, adopt and cherish it. After the able critical essay by President Andrews, which you kindly forwarded to me, it would seem superfluous to undertake an analysis of the merits of the Dictionary, but I shall be exceedingly happy to contribute any influence which the "Home Journal may possess for the furthering of the general authority and interest of your father's immortal work. Believe me, my dear Sir, Yours, very truly, From ELIHU BURRITT. Webster's great Dictionary may be regarded as bearing the same relation to the English language which Newton s "Principia" does to the sublime science of Natural Philosophy. Elihu Bunite From Prof. HOPKINS, Williams College. 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Of all the donations by individuals, and grants from the Colonial Legislature, during the first sixteen years of its corporate existence, including all the benefactions of Governor Yale, and all the sums subscribed for the first college edifice, more than one-fourth part of the whole sum was devoted to the college library. * These facts show how good books were valued when Yale was founded. They disclose, also, the judgment of educators of the young in those days, as to the importance of a library as a means of instruction in any seminary of a high grade. In our times of boasted progress in education, the formation of a library as a part of the apparatus of instruction, instead *Baldwin's History of Yale College, page 12. |