Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jonathan Edwards College, for the famed Presbyterian theologian (1703-58). Graduated from Yale at 17, Edwards preached dogmatically, saved many a soul, wrote many a book. In 1757 he succeeded his son-in-law Aaron Burr (father of Traitor Aaron Burr) as president of Princeton University, died of smallpox inoculation in the following year. Princeton also reveres him, has an Edwards Street, an Edwards Hall...
...honor of Jonathan Trumbull, governor of Connecticut shortly after the Revolution. The other two colleges will be named Calhoun and Edwards in honor of John C. Calhoun, Yale 1804, and Jonathan Edwards, Yale 1720, respectively. Calhoun was the famous statesman of Civil War days, while Edwards was a theologian and metaphysician of note...
Frank Chamberlin Porter, Yale theologian...
...position of the theologian in every day life has undergone a tremendous change in the last half-century. Even fifty years ago he was not the figure he has been. The small town preacher was no longer the one well educated man; the city pastor was not necessarily one to respect academically. But, even if his scholarly vestments had been stripped to a certain degree, he still remained a moral force. Today this aspect of his influence has also declined. The real theologian today is more a historian than a preacher, he is concerned with the sympathetic study...
...Williams Brothers' careers have been strikingly like those of the Brothers Cornpton- Karl Taylor, 43, and Arthur Holly, 38. The Comptons are the sons of the theologian president-emeritus of the College of Wooster. While Karl was teaching physics and studying electro-magnetic radiations at Princeton, Arthur studied the same subject there. Upon his elder brother's advice Arthur followed a path of physics which led him to a University of Chicago professorship and a Nobel Prize. Karl became president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...