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        Procession to meeting house, first commencement at New Haven.
        Second meeting house, New Haven.
        Undergraduate of 1720.
        Cutler and the Trustees.
        Banquet in the library, first commencement.
        President's house, 1722.

    V. Berkeley family portrait [From Kingsley's Yale College].
         Laying out the college farms at Litchfield, 1739.
         Student "Rought" in 1738.
         Berkeley's home in Rhode Island [From Kingsley's Yale College]. 
         "Friendly argument" in the Library, 1722/1723.
         Students auctioning food in Commons, 1752.
         "Monumental gratitude," 1727.
         Buck's view of Yale College, 1742-1750.

   VI. Student caught in the act of ringing the college bell and receiving 
             a box on the ears from President Clap, 1753.
         Presentation day, 1751.
         Interior of the Library, 1717-reconstructed [ From the Alumni
             Weekly].
         Stiles's view of the College [From the Stiles manuscripts in the 
             Library].
         Public reception to Benjamin Franklin, Stiles delivering a Latin 
             oration, 1755.
         Connecticut Hall, 1752[From Kingsley's Yale College].
         Freshmen clearing the snow from the College Yard.
         Inspection of student's room by the Scholar, 1755.

  VII. Powder Horn view of the college, 1759 [From the Pot Pourri, 
             1903].
          Five Sophomores and Freshmen steal eight hens from Widow 
              Brockett's henhouse, pluck and cook them, and are caught in the 
              act of eating them, 1764.
          James Hillhouse planting the trees on Hillhouse Avenue, 1792.
          Linonia play--Beaux' Stratagem [From the program of the revival 
              of the play in New York].
          Nathan Hale, Hillhouse, etc., give the first books to Linonia, 1769.
          Earl of Loundon visits New Haven, 1757.
          Commencement, 1760 humble confession in the meeting house 
              instead of the salutatory.
          Hale's school at New London.



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