Yale University Divinity School memorabilia, 1835-2007 (inclusive).

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Yale University Divinity School memorabilia, 1835-2007 (inclusive).

This collection represents primarily non-official documentation of life at the Yale University Divinity School. Official records of the School are held at the University Archives (YRG21).

50 linear feet (117 boxes, oversize items)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8022057

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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...