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G. A. Litchfield 68
Olden Time, In 291
On Detached Service.--An Episode of the Civil War Charles A. Patch,
Mass. Vols. 121
Otis, James, Junior Rev. H. Hewitt 319
Port Hudson, An Incident of William J. Burge, M.D. 548

Publishers' Department 96
Social Life in Early New England Rev. Anson Titus 63
Toppan, Colonel Christopher 60
Town Meeting-House and Town Politics in the Last Century, A
Atherton P. Mason, M.D. 127
Trinity College, Hartford, (Illust.) Prof. Samuel Hart, D.D. 393
Tufts College, (6 Illust. by F. A. Bicknell) Rev. E. H. Capen, D.D. 99
Veritable Trader, A A. T. S. 529
Wayte, Richard and Gamaliel, and some of their descendants Arthur
Thomas Lovell 48
Webster, Daniel, and Col. T. H. Perkins John Rogers 12
Webster, Editorial Note on Daniel 217
Webster, The Life and Character of Daniel Hon. Edward S. Tobey 228
Webster's Vindication Hon. Stephen M. Allen 509
Webster Historical Society Papers.--The Webster Family, (Illust.) Hon.
Stephen M. Allen 340, 409
Williams College Rev. N. H. Egleston 485
POETRY.
To a Friend Edgar Fawcett 12
The Mendicant Clinton Scollard 112
Trust J. B. M. Wright 249

The Oriole Clinton Scollard 267
The Singer Laura Garland Carr 339
Trust Arthur Elwell Jenks 373
To Oliver Wendell Holmes Edward P. Guild 413
The Picture Mary D. Brine 421
Hunting of the Stag of Oenoë Clinton Scollard 503
On Hoosac Mountain Edward P. Guild 527
Bonnie Harebells Anna B. Bensel 536
FULL PAGE PORTRAITS.
M. R. Waite, Chief-Justice of the U. S. Facing 1
Madame Sarah Abbot " 99
Edmund H. Bennett " 197
James Otis " 301
Thomas Prince " 344
Henry Barnard " 393
Mark Hopkins " 487

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BROWN UNIVERSITY.[A]
BY REUBEN A. GUILD, LL.D.
[Illustration: Sayles Memorial]
Brown University owes its origin to a desire, on the part of members of
the Philadelphia Association, to secure for their churches an educated
ministry, without the restrictions of denominational influence and
sectarian tests. The distinguishing sentiments of the Baptists, it may be
observed, were at variance with the religious opinions that prevailed
throughout the American colonies a century ago. They advocated
liberty of conscience, the entire separation of church and state,
believer's baptism by immersion, and a converted
church-membership;--principles for which they have earnestly
contended from the beginning. The student of history will readily
perceive how they thus came into collision with the ruling powers.
They were fined in Massachusetts and Connecticut for resistance to
oppressive ecclesiastical laws, they were imprisoned in Virginia, and
throughout the land were subjected to contumely and reproach. This
dislike to the Baptists as a sect, or rather to their principles, was very
naturally shared by the higher institutions of learning then in existence.
[Illustration]
[Illustration: COLLEGE CHURCH.]
In the year 1756, the Rev. Isaac Eaton, under the auspices of the
Philadelphia and Charleston Associations, founded at Hopewell, New

Jersey, an academy "for the education of youth for the ministry." To
him, therefore, belongs the distinguished honor of being the first
American Baptist to establish a seminary for the literary and
theological training of young men. The Hopewell Academy, which was
committed to the general supervision of a board of trustees appointed
by the two associations, and supported mainly by funds which they
contributed, was continued eleven years. During this period many who
afterwards became eminent in the ministry received from Mr. Eaton the
rudiments of a good education. Among them may be mentioned the
names of James Manning, Hezekiah Smith, Samuel Stillman, Samuel
Jones, John Gano, Oliver Hart, Charles Thompson, William Williams,
Isaac Skillman, John Davis, David Jones, and John Sutton. Not a few of
the academy students distinguished themselves in the professions of
medicine and of law. Of this latter class was the Hon. Judge Howell, a
name familiar to the early students of Rhode Island College, as the
University was at first called, and to the statesmen and politicians of
that day. Benjamin Stelle, who was graduated at the College of New
Jersey, and who afterwards, in the year 1766, established a Latin school
in Providence, was also a pupil of Mr. Eaton at Hopewell. His daughter
Mary, it may be added, was the second wife of the late Hon. Nicholas
Brown, the distinguished benefactor of the University, and from whom
it derives its name.
[Illustration]
The success of the Hopewell Academy inspired the friends of learning
with renewed confidence, and incited them to establish a college.
"Many of the churches," says the Rev. Morgan Edwards, "being
supplied with able pastors from Mr. Eaton's academy, and being thus
convinced from experience of the great usefulness of human literature
to more thoroughly furnish the