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President Woolsey is reported as having said: "When I was president of Yale College, I was asked if I would be willing to admit women students there. I replied that I would if Vassar College would admit young men. That ended the discussion." - [Boston Advertiser...
...society theory, and explaining the true principles. Many statements made are fortified by the testimony of such eminent public men as John Quincy Adams, John Hancock, Daniel Webster, William H. Seward, George William Curtis; distinguished graduates and educators of the standing of William M. Evarts, ex-President Theodore D. Woolsey and President Hitchcock...
...Porter is the son of a Connecticut minister, and was born in 1811. He was graduated from Yale in 1831, and, after some years spent in teaching and preaching, returned in 1846 to take the chair of Metaphysics which he has ever since held. In 1871 he succeeded Dr. Woolsey as president of the college. With the exception of his "Books and Reading" and his "American Colleges" and "The American Public," nearly all of Dr. Porter's books are upon metaphysical themes. But the work which has made his name familiar to every school-boy is his revision of Wesbter...
Graduate B have finished "Treaties." The remainder of the year will be taken up with the study of Woolsey's "International...
...religious paper in the West throws up its hands in horror at the ungodliness of Eastern students. "Nineteen hundred panes of glass," says one of them, "have been broken by Yale students in the two years the Woolsey was president...