Word: woolsey
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last meeting of the corporation a gift of $50,000 was received for the purpose of founding a chair in Bibilical Literature in the Academic Department in memory of the late ex-President Woolsey, the professorship in it to be named after him. Through the generosity of Mr. Sloane of New York, who has already done much for Yale, a new Scholarship has been presented to the University for the promotion of studies in physics...
...their names to remain unknown. The object of the new chair of instruction is, as expressed by the donors, to impart an intelligent apprehension of the English Bible, with a view to stimulating an earnest Christian faith and developing a manly Christian life. In commemoration of the late President Woolsey the professorship will be called the Woolsey professorship...
Professor John F. Weir of the Yale art school has prepared a model for a bronzo statue of ex-President Woolsey...
...Walker to Woolsey...
...readable articles in the number is "Fictions in the Pulpit," by Agnes Repplier. The writer makes a strong protest against the extreme moralistic and didactic tone of modern novel. Professor Joseph H. Thayer contributes an admirable description of the noble life and work of the late President Theodore Dwight Woolsey...