I  recollect  to  have  heard  the  late  Dr.  Lyman,  of  Hartford,  who  sat  under
President  Daggett's  ministry  during  his  college  course,  express  a  high  esti-
mate of  him  as  a  preacher  ;  and  he  remarks  tliat  he  had  a  sermon  on  the  text
—  'Is  thy  servant  a  dog,  that  he  should  do  this  thing,'  etc.,  and  when  the
fourth  year  came  round,  he  always  said,  '  And  the  dog  did  it.'  There  were  a
number  of  President  Daggett's  sermons  published,  and  there  are  others
remaining  in  manuscript,  which  show  that  he  possessed  much  more  than  ordi-
nary ability.  He  kept  remarkably  aloof  from  the  religious  controversies  of
his  time,  and  contented  himself  to  preach  what  he  believed  to  be  the  truth,
without  combating  what  he  regarded  as  the  erroneous  speculations  of  others."
The  number  of  his  written  sermons  was  about  five  hundred.  Among  those
he  published  was  one  delivered  at  the  ordination  of  Rev.  Ebenezer  Baldwin,


it  became  for  a  time  quite  a  successful  rival  of  the  oliler  and  more  conservative  society  "  Linouia."
A  progressive  step  was  also  taken  b.v  the  corpoiation,  who,  at  the  request  of  the  legislature,  voted  to
change  the  printing  of  the  college  laws,  etc.,  from  Latin  into  Knglish.  In  1708  the  change  was  made
to  the  present  style  of  printing  stuilents'  names  in  the  catalogues  in  alpliabetical  order.  Up  to  that
time  the  custom  had  obtained  of  printing  them  according  to  the  rank  in  society  that  their  fathers
were  supposed  to  possess,  and  it  was  considered  a  very  severe  punishment  for  a  name  to  be  placed
lower  than  the  social  rank  demanded.  Position  would  therefore  be  considered  worthy  of  great  emu-
ialion,  and  an  amusing  anecdote  is  told  of  one  student  whose  father  was  a  shoemaker,  who,  when  he
was  questioned  as  to  his  father's  position  in  life,  replied  that  he  "  ivas  on  the  bench,"  thereby  gaining
for  himself  a  high  place  in  the  catalogue.
