Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 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…