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 Ezra Stiles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born the son of the Rev. Isaac Stiles in North Haven, Connecticut, Ezra Stiles graduated from Yale in 1746.
Stiles believed, as did many Christian scholars of the time, that facility with the text in its original language was advantageous for proper interpretation.
The college's mascot is the moose, inspired by the installation in the dining hall of a stuffed moose head in honor of former college master and Yale president A.
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 Ezra Stiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ezra Stiles was born in North Haven, Connecticut, on November 29, 1727.
Stiles believed our nation would come to thrive in many different facets, and would do so because America was founded in religion's name, and thus was blessed.
In a beautifully spoken oration, which ties together not only Stiles' beliefs, but those of our founding fathers, he said, "The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right...
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/pqrst/stiles_ezra.html   (402 words)

  
 ActionScript-ToolBox: by Ezra Stiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Rev. Ezra Stiles (November 29, 1727 - May 12, 1795) was a Congregational clergyman, minister of the Second Congregational Church in Newport, Rhode Island, and President of Yale College from 1778 to 1795.
Stiles also struck up a close friendship with Rabbi Haim Isaac Carigal during Carigal's six month residence in Newport in 1773, the two meeting 28 times (according to Stiles' records) to discuss a wide variety of topics ranging from kaballah to the politics of the Holy Land.
Its mascot is the moose; this arose from the installation of a stuffed moose's head, currently decomposing away in the Ezra Stiles Dining Hall, in honor of former college master and Yale president A. Bartlett Giamatti.
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 §3. The Later Eighteenth Century; Ezra Stiles. XXV. Scholars. Vol. 18. Later National Literature, Part III. The ...
Columbia College); and Ezra Stiles, in his Latin Inaugural Oration upon his induction as president of Yale in 1778, offered a prospectus of much the same kind, which is notable as showing the relative values that a highly estimable scholar then attached to the various disciplines.
Stiles would have his ideal pupil study the vernacular with a view to rendering materials from other languages available in it, and for practice in writing and public speaking.
The programme is closed with the professional studies: medicine; theology, which Stiles analyzes in some detail as doctrinal, historical, etc.; and law, for which he lays out a course in considerable detail.
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 Ezra Stiles - LoveToKnow 1911
EZRA STILES (1727-1795), American clergyman and educationalist, seventh president of Yale College, was born on the 29th of November 1727 in North Haven, Connecticut, where his father, Isaac Stiles (d.
He graduated at Yale in 1746; studied there for the three years following; was licensed to preach in 1749 and was a tutor at Yale in 1749-1755.
See the Life of Ezra Stiles (Boston, 1798), by his daughter's husband, Abiel Holmes, the father of Oliver Wendell Holmes.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Ezra_Stiles   (403 words)

  
 Ezra Stiles
STILES (EZRA, D.D.), president of Yale college, was the son of the reverend Isaac Stiles of North Haven, Connecticut, and was born December 15, 1727.
Stiles was one of the most learned men, of whom this country can boast.
These occasionally met in his study, when he instructed them, and falling on their knees together he implored for them and for himself the blessing of that God, with whom all distinction excepting that of Christian excellence is as nothing.
www.belcherfoundation.org /ezra_stiles.htm   (898 words)

  
 Ezra Stiles Gannett
Ezra Stiles Gannett was the assistant and successor to William Ellery Channing at the Federal State Church in Boston, minister when the congregation moved to Arlington Street.
Ezra Stiles Gannett, Unitarian minister in Boston, 1824 - 1871.
Ezra Stiles Gannett: Unitarian Minister in Boston, 1824-1871 by William C. Gannett.
www.famousuus.com /bios/ezra_stiles_gannett.htm   (382 words)

  
 Post Gazette Article
Stiles died in 1974 and his son, Andy, sold the house in 1983 to pediatrician Carol Brand, who still lives there with her son.
Stiles, the son of teachers Carrington Riverius Stiles and Harriet B. Clarke, traced his lineage to namesake Ezra Stiles, a minister and early president of Yale College.
After Stiles' death, his son Andy remodeled the kitchen, where Brand discovered under plasterboard a large Stiles painting on wood of a French chef in his kitchen, richly ornamented with the sort of whimsical border details that can be seen in Stiles' 1939 pictorial map of Frick Park.
www.phlf.org /news/mediaclips/2000/000506PGstiles1.html   (1614 words)

  
 Newport Notables
Stiles played important part in the founding of Rhode Island College (now known as Brown University) in 1764.
Sometimes referred to as the "Dr. Stiles Meetinghouse," Stiles was afraid that during the British occupation of Newport the guns of the warships were aimed at the church.
Stiles was not formally dismissed by the congregation until the next minister took charge in May of 1786 - ten years after he left town.
www.redwoodlibrary.org /notables/stiles.htm   (550 words)

  
 Yale Daily News - Ezra Stiles College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Stiles, like its backwards neighbor to the north, Morse, was built in 1962 with "citadels of earthy monolithic masonry designed after the medieval hill town, San Gimignano." Just like this small town...
An Emmy-winning broadcast journalist before she returned to school for a medical degree, Sanders now combines her medical practice with work as a consulting producer for the hit Fox TV program “House,” a show that was inspired by her interest in the diagnostic process.
Stiles, like its backwards neighbor to the north, Morse, was built in 1962 with "citadels of earthy monolithic masonry designed after the medieval hill town, San Gimignano." Just like this small town in Italy, Ezra Stiles College is conveniently located across the street from the gym.
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 Ezra Stiles, The United States Elevated to Glory and Honor (1783)
Sermon by minister/lawyer/Yale College president Ezra Stiles (1727-1795) and biographical sketch and editor's notes by John Wingate Thornton (1860), from: The Pulpit of the American Revolution: Or, the Political Sermons of the Period of 1776.
Stiles: "The crown and glory of our confederacy is the amphictyonic council of the General Congress, standing on the annual election of the united respective states, and revocable at pleasure.
Ezra Stiles, son of Rev. Issac Stiles, was born in North Haven, Connecticut, December 10, 1727; graduated at Yale in 1747; delivered a Latin oration, in 1753, in memory of Dean Berkeley, and another at New Haven, in February, 1755, in honor of Dr. [Benjamin] Franklin, with whom he had a life-long friendship.
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 Ezra Stiles College
Since [Stiles'] congregation included several merchants and sea captains, he occasionally had the opportunity to invest a little extra cash in one of their voyages...
At the same time that Stiles penned a joint letter with Hopkins condemning "the great inhumanity and cruelty" of slavery, and while Stiles himself wrote and preached against the slave trade, Stiles himself owned a slave whom he had obtained directly through trade and held for 20 years.
It appears that Stiles hired his former slave Newport as a servant on the condition that Newport's two year old son, Jacob, would be bonded to and would serve Stiles until age 24 (39).
www.yaleslavery.org /WhoYaleHonors/stiles1.html   (568 words)

  
 Revolutionary Era 1754-1783: Education History: Ezra Stiles 1727-1795 Congregational Minister, Theologian, Scholar, ...
Ezra Stiles was born on 29 November 1727 in North Haven, Connecticut, to Isaac Stiles, a Congregational minister, and Kezia Taylor Stiles, who died five days after giving birth to Ezra.
Stiles was hesitant to enter the ministry and thought he would like to study law, so he continued his job as tutor at Yale while reading law, and in November 1753 he was admitted to the New Haven bar.
Stiles was a proponent of American liberty, and when the war broke out, he supported the American cause.
www.bookrags.com /history/revolutionary-era-education/sub13.html   (609 words)

  
 Ezra Stiles Gannett
Ezra Stiles Gannett (May 4, 1801-August 26, 1871) was a prominent Unitarian minister, editor, and a founder of the American Unitarian Association (AUA).
Upon the death of his first wife, with whom he had four children, Caleb married Ruth Stiles, the profoundly devout daughter of the formidable Ezra Stiles, President of Yale College.
Ezra was the only child of this union.
www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/ezrastilesgannett.html   (2329 words)

  
 Ezra Stiles predicts of Church in Wilderness
There are three coetaneous events to take place whose fruition is certain from prophecy, the annihilation of the Pontificate, the reassembling of the Jews, and the fulness of the Gentiles.
Although Ezra Stiles may not have foreseen the Restoration of the Gospel, he did see America as being the place where Christianity would be restored or recovered to its primitive form.
Only then could the world be truly converted, preparing the way for the return of the Jews and the tribes of Israel to their ancient homeland, and for the fulness of the Gentiles to come in.
www.geocities.com /rameumptom/bom/ezrastiles.html   (341 words)

  
 Ezra Stiles | Mar 24, 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The fall and winter have come and gone, and the Ezra Stiles Intramural Machine forges on.
On a darker note, Stiles still fell over 100 points behind Morse thanks to another end- of-season skewing in the ranking.
Stiles effectively fell 90 points off the lead from two nights of swimming alone.
www.yaleherald.com /archive/xxix/2000.03.24/etc/estiles.html   (331 words)

  
 Stiles' Emancipation Society
In 1790, Stiles agreed to serve as the first President of "The Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom and for the relief of persons unlawfully holden in Bondage." Over the next four years, the annual sermons preached before this society would become some of the most popular anti-slavery literature from this time period (42).
The society's mission was practical and straightforward: "to inforce [sic] the Statutes of Connecticut relative to the gradual abolition of slavery" (43).
To enroll the names, ages and possessors of such persons as have been borne since the 1st of March, 1784, and who by law will be entitled to their freedom at the age of 25 years [and]...
www.yaleslavery.org /WhoYaleHonors/stiles2.html   (324 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Ezra Stiles": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
I discuss in more depth in Chapter 3, Yale was to become a center of interest in Hebrew under President Ezra Stiles, who assumed leadership of the college in 1778.
Ezra Stiles also referred to a March 28 meeting as one of "the Sons of Liberty in Newport.
Ezra Stiles, who may have known Timothy Cutler and whose fa- ther was a student of his and a graduate in the...
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 Ezra Stiles | Sep 29, 2000
Sound the shofar: Stiles may not have gotten off to a stellar start, but tomorrow marks the beginning of a new year.
Captains Dan Osnoss '03 and Eliza Park '01 have the other tennis squads saying "Oy vey" when they see Stiles on the schedule, and seniors Grant Chavin and Chris Edwards have the men's football team parting opposing defenses like the Red Sea.
To be inscribed in the book of life, Stiles women will have to start showing more enthusiasm for soccer, volleyball, tennis, and the rest of the sports that they tend to avoid.
www.yaleherald.com /archive/xxx/2000.09.29/etc/ezrastiles.html   (232 words)

  
 Yale and Medicine, 1701-1901: Founding of the Medical Institution of Yale College
The Rev. Ezra Stiles became president of Yale College in 1777 and held the position until his death.
Before he assumed the Presidency of Yale in 1777, the Rev. Ezra Stiles sketched a future plan for Yale which included a course of medical lectures for the training of physicians.
After graduation from Yale, Munson studied divinity with Ezra Stiles but his career as a minister was short for he became ill and moreover, his reputation as a wit and prankster did not jibe well with the character of a minister.
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 Ezra Stiles Summary
Known to contemporaries as an erudite Congregational minister whose career culminated in the presidency of Yale College from 1778 to 1795, the Reverend Ezra Stiles still tends to be highly esteemed for his intellect.
The Rev. Ezra Stiles(November 29, 1727- May 12, 1795) was a Congregational clergyman, theologian and president of Yale College from 1778 to 1795.
Ezra Stiles: Rev. Ezra Stiles, 1770-1771, by Samuel King
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 Connecticut's Heritage Gateway
The Life of Ezra Stiles … President of Yale College.
Stiles had his forty volumes of notebooks sent to Holmes.
Holmes’ work is based on those volumes, with some quotations not found subsequently by anyone.
www.ctheritage.org /biography/bioindividuals/stiles.htm   (108 words)

  
 Papers of Ezra Stiles - Collection 63
Ezra Stiles was born in North Haven, Connecticut.
He graduated from Yale College at the age of nineteen, and over the next four decades was licensed to preach the gospel, tutored at Yale, dabbled in experiments with electricity, was admitted to the Connecticut bar, married twice and fathered eight children, helped found what is now Brown University, and became the president of Yale.
Note on the Microfilm: This microfilm edition of the Stiles Papers was prepared from originals primarily housed in the Beinecke Library, Yale University.
www.wheaton.edu /bgc/archives/GUIDES/063.htm   (362 words)

  
 EZRA STILES (1727–1795) - Online Information article about EZRA STILES (1727–1795)
EZRA STILES (1727–1795) - Online Information article about EZRA STILES (1727–1795)
EZRA (from a Hebrew word meaning " help ")
UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)
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 Stiles Family Story: Ezra STILES - AncientFaces.com
At 43 years of age Ezra Stiles died 24 Dec 1889 leaving a widow with seven children.
More and more I relise it and Dear brother I do hope and trust you do need God's help to carry and help you along for I am sure you must feel lonely sometimes away in that strange country but is there anyone there from this country that you know or not.
Is it as good as Nova Scotia to live in The times in Springhill are very good but Ezra is not able to do any The folks are all well at present as far as I know.
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 Yale Daily News - Ezra Stiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
And come August, there will be tons of Ezra Stiles big sibs to help you move into your new luxurious home.
One thing that Stiles has a lot of is college spirit.
To those of you who are not fortunate enough to be in Stiles, I say that there is always the option of transferring to Stiles.
www.yaledailynews.com /Article.aspx?ArticleID=15793   (678 words)

  
 Gannett, Ezra Stiles. Papers, 1824-1924.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ezra Stiles Gannett (1801-1871) graduated from Harvard College in 1820, and from Harvard Divinity School in 1823.
He served as an overseer of the University from 1835 to 1858.
bMS 481/1 (17) "Discourse on the Life and Character of Rev. Ezra Stiles Gannett," by Calvin Lincoln, 1871.
www.hds.harvard.edu /library/bms/bms00481.html   (314 words)

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