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 Happy 319th!
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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 8:06am October 09 2020
 It was 319 years ago today that the Colony of Connecticut granted ten ministers a charter to erect a school “wherein Youth may be instructed in the Arts & Sciences who thorough the blessing of Almighty God may be fitted for Publick employment both in Church & Civil State.” We held on to the paperwork (above); it’s in the Beinecke Library. 
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Founders Day, charter
 
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