Charitable society for the education of indigent pious young men for the ministry of the Gospel records, 1814-1909 (inclusive).

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Charitable society for the education of indigent pious young men for the ministry of the Gospel records, 1814-1909 (inclusive).

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The records include a copy of a constitution, minutes of annual meetings, financial accounts, and correspondence. These papers are also known as the Connecticut Education Society Records.

.75 linear ft. (2 boxes)

Yale University Library

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Yale University Library

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Charitable society for the education of indigent pious young men for the ministry of the Gospel.

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A charitable society founded in 1814 to provide financial aid to needy divinity students at Yale College. The Treasurer of Yale College was exofficio Treasurer of the society. The society held its last meeting in 1877. From the guide to the Charitable society for the education of indigent pious young men for the ministry of the Gospel records, 1814-1909, (Manuscripts and Archives) A charitable society founded in 1814 to provide financial aid to needy divinity students at Yal...

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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...