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 56 COLLAMER COLLEGE II. The capital and principal city of the state, situated in a fertile plain watered by several rivers, two of which pass the town, in lat. 19 N., Ion. 103 7' W., 270 m. W. by S. of Mexico ; pop. about 20,000. It is a well built city, with regular streets, mostly paved. There are two squares, the principal of which is the Plaza de Armas. It has a government house, a number of churches, a college, and several schools. There is a considerable demand for manufac- tured goods, cottons, linens, woollens, and hardware. Its port, Manzanilla, 60 m. S. by W. of the city, has fine anchorage and a good commerce with San Francisco. There are no buildings there, it being only a landing place. Colima was founded by Gonzalo de Sandoval in 1522, incorporated nnder the name of Santi- ago de los Caballeros by Philip II., and made a city in 1824. COLLAMER, Jacob, an American senator, born at Troy, N. Y., in 1792, died at Woodstock, Vt., Nov. 9, 1865. He was a son of Samuel Collamer, who was a native of Scituate, Mass., and a soldier of the revolution. In childhood the family removed to Burlington, Vt., and Jacob graduated at the university of Vermont in 1810. He studied law at St. Albans, and was admitted to the bar in 1812, after which he made the frontier campaign as a lieutenant of artillery in the detached militia in the United States service. He accomplished his course of preparatory, collegiate, and professional stud- ies without any other pecuniary means than such as his own industry supplied. Until 1833 he practised law in "Washington, Orange, and Windsor counties, commencing at Barre. In 1821, '22, '27, and '28 he represented the town of Royalton in the general assembly. In 1833 he was elected an associate justice of the supreme court of Vermont, and was continued on the bench till 1841, when he declined a re- election. In 1842 he was chosen a member of, congress, and was reflected in 1844 and 1846, but in 1848 declined to be again a candidate. In October, 1848, the whig party of Vermont formally recommended him through a legisla- tive caucus for a cabinet appointment, and on March 7, 1849, he was appointed postmaster general by President Taylor, in which office he continued till July 20, 1850. On Nov. 8, 1850, he was elected judge of the supreme court, and was annually reflected until Oct. 14, 1854, when he was elected United States senator. He continued in that office until his death, and served as chairman of the committee on post offices and post roads and on that of the library. The degree of LL. D. was con- ferred upon him by the university of Vermont and byJJartmouth college. COLLE, Charles, a French dramatist and song writer, born in Paris in 1709, died Nov. 3, 1783. He was appointed by the duke of Or- leans, the son of the regent, his reader and pri- vate secretary, and during 20 years wrote plays for the private theatre of the duke. He also wrote songs, which have more merit than his plays, and were in the same vein with those of his imitators, Desaugiers and Beranger. The plays have been published under the title of Thedtre de societe, and the songs in two volumes. COLLE, Raffaellino dal, an Italian painter of the earlier part of the 16th century, studied under Raphael and afterward under Giulio Romano, and was the assistant of both these artists. His manner of painting resembled that of Raphael. He worked for a time under the direction of Vasari. Among his paintings are a picture of the "Resurrection," in the church of St. Roc- co at San Sepolcro; an "Assumption," in the church of the Oonventuali at Oitta di Oastello ; a "Nativity;" and two pictures representing scenes in the life of St. Benedict, painted in fresco, in the chapel of the Olivet monks at Gubbio. Raffaellino is considered one of the best masters of the school of Raphael. COLLEGE (Lat. collegium, an association), in its primary and most general meaning, the union of several persons (collegw, colleagues), with like powers, privileges, and customs, in one office for a common end. Thus, in Roman antiquity, colleges consisted of at least three persons, forming a corporation for religious, political, or industrial purposes. The four prin- cipal colleges of priests were the collegium pontificum, C. augurum, C. septemmrorum or epulonum, and C. quindecimmrorum. These were instituted by the earliest kings, and be- sides them there were many designed for the service of inferior divinities, or at a later period for the worship of the emperors after their apotheosis. Of the last class the C. Augus- talium and C. Flamalium were examples. Among the Roman political colleges were the C. Capitolinorum, which presided over the Capitoline games, the C. tribunorum plefiis, which protected the plebeians from the abuse of patrician magistrates, and the C. qucestorum, which managed the public revenues. There were also from the time of Numa or Servius Tullius colleges of artificers, carpenters, butch- ers, bakers, locksmiths, potters, and finally of persons engaged in nearly every other branch of industry. Their original design was either to bring the old and new citizens into closer union, or, according to Plutarch, to prevent the danger of any general conspiracy, by or- ganizing separate assemblies, festivals, and finances for different portions of the citizens. During the latter period of the republic these colleges increased in number, and became in- triguing and violent parties in the comitia, so that the senate ordered the dissolution of all those newly formed. They were revived during the civil wars, and suppressed by Csesar and again by Augustus, being regarded as centres of conspiracy. In the Byzantine empire they were encouraged and patronized, in return for which they furnished to the government the products needed for the public services. Among more recent applications of the term are the collegium tenuiorum, a mediaeval union of poor men who engaged to procure for each