Egal acts of the citizens of such States." O

Their connivance and co-operation, was sacrificed to the machinations of the students, egged on, it is thought, by members of the Corporation, and died, "as was said, with a broken heart." Meanwhile, through neglect of the
Province to provide for its support, the material fortunes
of the College,
in the course of thirty years, had fallen into such decay that extinction was inevitable, had not the people of another Colony come to the rescue. The town of Portsmouth, in New
Hampshire, hearing, says their address,
"the loud groans of the sinking College,... and hoping that their
example might provoke ... the General Court vigorously to act for the diverting of the omen of calamity which its destruction would be to New England," pledged themselves to an annual contribution of sixty

pounds for seven years. This act of chivalrous generosity fairly shamed our lagging Commonwealth into measures for the resuscitation of an institution especially committed
to its care. The most remarkable feature
of this business is that the Province all this while was drawing, not only moral support, but pecuniary aid, from the College. "It is manifest," says
Quincy,[A] "that the treasury of the Colony, having been the recipient of many of the early donations to the College, was not a little aided by the conv enience which these available
funds afforded to its pecuniary necessities. Some of these funds, although received in 1647, were not paid over to the treasury of the College until 1713; then, indeed, the College received an allowance of simple interest for the delay. With regard, therefore, to the annual allowance of L100,

whereby," during the first seventy years, "they enabled the President of the College simply to exist, it is proper to observe,
that there was not probably one year in the whole seventy in which, by moneys collected from friends of the institution in foreign countries, by donations
of its friends in this country, by moneys

brought by students
from other Colonies, and above all by furnishing the means of education at home, and thus preventing the outgoing of domestic wealth
for education abroad, the
College did not remunerate the Colony for that poor annual stipend five
hundred fold." The patronage extended to the College after the Revolution was not more cordial and not more adequate than the meagre succors of Colonial legislation. The first