Daniel Webster

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 II PREPARATION FOR THE LAW When Webster became a student at Dartmouth the institution was?as it still was twenty-one years later when he summoned all his powers to its defense before the highest tribunal of the land?a little college. Its origin is to be traced to a plan of the missionary, John Sergeant, for the establishment of an Indian school at Stockbridge, Massachusetts. By reason of the premature death of Sergeant the project upon which he was bent was delayed, but it was taken up by Dr. Eleazer Wheelock, of Lebanon, Connecticut, and broadened to comprehend the founding of an institution of higher learning for both Indians and whites. Funds were collected in England and America and a site, offered by Governor Thomas Wentworth and other citizens of New Hampshire, was accepted, consisting of the