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...study of history in some form, biblical or classical, may have been introduced into the curriculum of Yale College in its earliest years; but the first formal recognition of the subject was "the appointment of President Stiles to a professorship of ecclesiastical history in 1778. He held his professership till his death-in 1795-and after him it was held by Professor Kingsley from 1805 to 1817. There is abundant evidence that his interpretation of the field of ecclesiastical history was a very wide one; it was simply that he, an ecclesiastic, taught general history. I should be very loath...
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