Karl Owen Thompson collection 1828-1932

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Karl Owen Thompson collection 1828-1932

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A collection of approximately one hundred letters relating to Yale University. Included are letters by five Yale presidents, Yale faculty members, and letters received by George E. Day of the Divinity School. Also an essay in Latin written in 1859 by A. W. Van Hengel.

0.25 linear foot (1 box)

eng,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6351167

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Thompson, Karl Owen, 1881-1958,

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Yale University. Faculty.

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Day, George Edward, 1815-1905

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Van Hengel, A. W.

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Yale university. Divinity school

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For more than a century, theological instruction was conducted by Yale's president or by the Professor of Divinity, a position established by Thomas Clap in 1746. During these years, however, Yale did not have a formally established Divinity School. The college began to feel the lack of a separately established department in the beginning of the nineteenth century as more New England colleges--such as Williams, Middlebury, Union, and Hamilton--began to draw students to their seminar...

Yale University. History.

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