History; 1754-1904 : published in commemoration of the one hundred & fiftieth anniversary of the founding of King's College.
- Columbia University
- Date:
- 1904
Licence: In copyright
Credit: History; 1754-1904 : published in commemoration of the one hundred & fiftieth anniversary of the founding of King's College. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![“After the Stone was laid, a Health was drank to his 1756 Majesty, and Success to his Arms, and to Sir Charles, and Prosperity to the College, and to the Advancement of true Religion, Loyalty and Learning, under his Administration; Upon which the Reverend Dr. Johnson, President of the College, made the following short congratulatory speech in Latin. • ••••• ••• [Here are given the Latin speech and a translation of it into English.] “ Which being done, the Governors and Pupils laid each his Stone, and several other Gentlemen, and then they returned to Mr. Willett’s: where there was a very elegant Dinner, after which all the usual loyal Healths were drank, and Prosperity to the College; and the whole was conducted with the utmost Decency and Propriety.” The Latin inscription on the stone is not quite accu- rately quoted in the G-azette, and is here given cor- rectly. The original stone may be seen embedded in the mantel-piece of the Trustees’ Room in the Library Build- ing at Morningside Heights. HVJVS COLLEGII, REGALIS DICTI, REGIO DIPLOMATE CONSTITVTI IN HONORKM DEI O.M. ATQ : IN ECCLESIJE REIQ : PVBLIC^E EMOLVMENTVM, PRIMVM HVXC LAPIDEM POSVIT VIR PRASCEL LENTISSIMVS, CAROLVS HARDY, EQVES AVRATVS, HVJVS PRO- VINCE® PR.EFECTVS DIGNISSIMVS. AVGTI. DIE 23° AN. DOM. MDCCLVI. The “ Tutor ” referred to in the account was Mr. Leon- ard Cutting, of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, England, who replaced Mr. William Johnson in 1756, the latter having gone to England to take orders in the Episcopal Church. In November of the following year, 1757, the small- pox prevailed in New York, and President Johnson, who had accepted his office under the express condition “ that he should be allowed to retire to some place of safety out of town when the small-pox prevailed,” retired with his family to Westchester, where he remained more than a](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28990717_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
