Karl Owen Thompson collection, 1828-1932 (inclusive).

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Karl Owen Thompson collection, 1828-1932 (inclusive).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702167375

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.

.25 linear ft. (1 box)

Yale University Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8022701

Yale University Library

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Yale University.

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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...

Day, George Edward, 1815-1905

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Thompson, Karl Owen, 1881-1958,

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