Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Timothy Dwight College


Related Topics

  
  Grove Street Cemetery - Timothy Dwight Commemoration
Her influence and example can be gauged by Dwight's statement at age 55: "All that I am and all that I shall be, I owe to my mother." Around six Timothy entered a local grammar school where he was determined to study Latin and succeeded although his father initially forbade it as premature.
In 1795, Dwight became president of a college that had a number of routine problems and, what was far worse from his point of view, a student body that rejected authority, took pride in expressing advanced European thought and declared their contempt for Christianity.
Dwight explained to him that no available American had sufficient knowledge to be appointed professor, and "a foreigner, with his peculiar habits and prejudices, would not feel and act in unison with us...however able he might be in point of science..." Silliman accepted, but prudently took time to be admitted to the Connecticut bar.
www.grovestreetcemetery.org /Timothy_Dwight.htm   (3446 words)

  
 Timothy Dwight College
Timothy Dwight himself purchased a slave in 1788.
Dwight was a persuasive teacher, and what he said moved many of his students deeply...
Early in his tenure, Dwight expanded the size of the faculty by appointing three key professors: Benjamin Silliman, professor of chemistry and geology; James Luce Kingsley, professor of classical languages; and Jeremiah Day, professor of mathematics and future Yale president.
www.yaleslavery.org /WhoYaleHonors/dwight1.html   (521 words)

  
 Timothy Dwight
Benjamin Woolsey's son, Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, educator, born in New Haven, Connecticut, 5 April 1816, was graduated at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, in 1835, and at Yale theological seminary in 1838.
President Dwight's third son, James Dwight (1784 - 1863), was a successful merchant; and his son, Timothy Dwight, educator, born in Norwich, Connecticut, 16 November 1828, was graduated at Yale in 1849, studied theology there in 1850'3, was a tutor in the College in 1851'5, and studied at Bonnand Berlin, Germany, in 1856'8.
The elder President Dwight's fifth son, Sereno Edwards Dwight, educator, born in Greenfield Hill, Connecticut, 18 May 1786: died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 30 November 1850, was graduated at Yale in 1803, and after teaching in Litchfield, Connecticut, and acting as his father's amanuensis, was tutor at Yale in 1806'10.
www.famousamericans.net /timothydwight   (3012 words)

  
 Heath Anthology of American LiteratureTimothy Dwight - Author Page
From this dynamic lineage, Dwight inherited an intellectual enthusiasm befitting the eighteenth century: he was a poet, an essayist, a preacher, a politician, a teacher, a college president, and a travel writer.
Dwight was awarded his B.A. in 1769 and his M.A. in 1772, delivering the commencement address entitled “A Dissertation on the History, Eloquence, and Poetry of the Bible.” Despite an initial inclination to study law, he became a tutor at Yale from 1771 to 1777.
Dwight was apparently quite popular with the students and promoted a more congenial environment by abolishing a system of public punishments of undergraduates based upon fines and reinforced by physical abuse.
college.hmco.com /english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/eighteenth/dwight_ti.html   (1195 words)

  
 Timothy Dwight Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Timothy Dwight (1752-1817), an American Congregational minister, was president of Yale College and New England's leading religious politician.
Timothy Dwight was born in Northhampton, Mass., into one of New England's most extraordinary families on May 14, 1752.
Besides administering an exuberant college and giving counsel of weight in the affairs of state to visiting dignitaries, he taught the moral philosophy course to the seniors, supplied the college pulpit twice a Sabbath, and served as professor of divinity.
www.bookrags.com /biography/timothy-dwight   (528 words)

  
 Timothy Dwight - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
TIMOTHY DWIGHT (1752-1817), American divine, writer, and educationalist, was born at Northampton, Massachusetts, on the 14th of May 1752.
His father, Timothy Dwight, a graduate of Yale College (1744), was a merchant, and his mother was the third daughter of Jonathan Edwards.
President Dwight's grandson, TIMOTHY DWIGHT (1828-), a famous preacher and educationalist, was born at Norwich, Connecticut, on the 16th of November 1828.
www.1911ency.org /D/DW/DWIGHT_TIMOTHY.htm   (415 words)

  
 Fusco at Yale's Timothy Dwight Hall
Timothy Dwight the elder was the grandson of Jonathan Edwards, the Yale-educated, former president of Princeton.
The younger Timothy became known as the "Father of the University," for it was under his direction that Yale became a university rather than a college surrounded by separate graduate schools.
As a Timothy Dwighter pulls an all-nighter to finish a project, little will they know that a construction worker somewhere will remember back to when they pulled an all-nighter in order to for the college to be ready for the students.
high-profile.com /2002/nov/yale.html   (1258 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Timothy Dwight was then left with a newborn son, a young wife, twelve siblings, and his mother, all of whom needed his care.
Dwight completed many of his best-known writings and was bestowed some honors, some praise, and some criticism during his twelve years as pastor of Greenfield Hill.
Dwight's early writings such as The Conquest of Canaan were and are highly criticized, but Greenfield Hill, written with more experience and the wisdom of years of learning and pastoring, is truly a triumph of early American ideals.
www.hillsdale.edu /academics/downloads/greenbiotimothydwight.doc   (2156 words)

  
 Right sympathies
Timothy Dwight is the man most responsible for Yale’s transformation from a small regional college to a major national university.
Timothy Dwight is in many ways critical to the report’s argument about Yale’s involvement with slavery, for it credits him with fostering pro-slavery attitudes in his students and influencing the college climate on this subject long after his death.
Timothy Dwight, The Duty of Americans, at the Present Crisis, Illustrated in a Discourse, Preached on the Fourth of July, 1798, (New Haven, Thomas and Samuel Green, 1798), p.
www.yalestandard.org /Timothy_Dwight.htm   (3191 words)

  
 Yale and Medicine, 1701-1901: Founding of the Medical Institution of Yale College
Timothy Dwight, elected President of Yale in 1795, had a major role in the founding of the Medical Institution of Yale College.
Eli Ives, a graduate of Yale College in 1799, studied medicine with his father and with Eneas Munson and attended medical lectures under Benjamin Rush, Caspar Wistar, and Benjamin Smith Barton at the University of Pennsylvania.
Jonathan Knight, a graduate of Yale College in 1808, studied medicine in New Haven and attended courses at the University of Pennsylvania.
info.med.yale.edu /library/exhibits/yalemed1/medinstyalecoll.html   (2218 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Dwight saw the idea that man could get to this perfectly rational state apart from obedience to God and His salvation, as a threat to the way of life that he loved and wanted others to cherish as a gift from God.
As president of Yale, Dwight faced a college that had left its Biblical basis, and found in its stead a student body accepting of the European Enlightenment view of man. The place [Yale] was a hotbed of blatant Infidelity.
Dwight's immediate influence was beneficial and his emphasis on the necessity of a Christian moral government came out of his personal love and devotion to God and love for his country.
www.hillsdale.edu /academics/downloads/kirkbiotimothydwight.doc   (1790 words)

  
 Timothy Dwight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Timothy Dwight College is a residential college at Yale University, and is also the name shared by two presidents of Yale University.
Timothy Dwight IV (1752-1817) -- President of Yale University from 1795-1817.
Timothy Dwight V (1829-1916) -- President of Yale University from 1886-1899.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timothy_Dwight   (107 words)

  
 Timothy Dwight
Timothy Dwight was one of the more famous "Hartford Wits," a group of Connecticut men who were associated I literary work during and after the Revolution.
Dwight was born May 14, 1752 in the town of Northampton, Massachusetts.
In 1797, Dwight published a bitter verse satire called "The Triumph of Infidelity," which was probably drawn from his resistance to post-Revolutionary deism and infidelity.
www.texasfasola.org /biographies/timothydwight.html   (940 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Dwight, Timothy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Dwight, Timothy DWIGHT, TIMOTHY [Dwight, Timothy] 1828-1916, American educator, b.
Northampton, Mass.; brother of Timothy Dwight and grandson of Jonathan Edwards.
Timothy Dwight's American 'Dunciad': 'The Triumph of Infidelity' and the Universalist controversy.
www.encyclopedia.com /articles/03885.html   (510 words)

  
 Timothy Dwight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Timothy was educated both at home and in schools.
Dwight was now a fabulous scholar, who could not read.
Dwight accepted a call to pastor a community in Greenfield Hill.
dylee.keel.econ.ship.edu /ubf/leaders/dwight.htm   (2491 words)

  
 Connecticut's Heritage Gateway
Calvinist, poet, and educator, Dwight was graduated from Yale College in 1769 with highest honors.
After two years of teaching in a New Haven grammar school, he returned to Yale for six years as a tutor.
Timothy Dwight and the Origins of American Evangelical Orthodoxy.
www.ctheritage.org /encyclopedia/ct1763_1818/dwight.htm   (437 words)

  
 Rev. Dr. Timothy Dwight and Mary Woolsey
Timothy Dwight was married to the 1st cousin of Henry's wife, Sarah Welles.
He found the college with a narrow and pedantic curriculum, with the bitterest of feeling existing between the freshmen and the upper-class men, and between the students and the faculty, and with the burden of a primary system.
He was married in March, 1777, to Mary, daughter of Benjamin Woolsey of Long Island and they had eight sons, the eldest of whom, Timothy (1778-1884), was a merchant in New Haven and gave $5000 to endow the Dwight professorship of didactic theology at Yale.
www.iment.com /maida/familytree/henry/bios/timothydwight.htm   (679 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Timothy Dwight
Like the other Wits, Dwight was an especial admirer of the poets of the English Augustan period, and his own poems, which deal chiefly with the political, moral, and religious future of the new American nation, recall the particular Augustan sense of poetry as a means of political or ideological intervention.
Dwight was born on 14 May 1752 in Northhampton, Massachusetts, the son of Major Timothy Dwight, a merchant and judge, and Mary Edwards Dwight, daughter of the revivalist preacher and theologian, Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758).
Dwight also represented the town of Northampton in the first Massachusetts state legislature in 1781-1782, before settling in 1783 on a permanent career in the clergy as pastor of the Greenfield Hill Congregational Church in Fairfield, Connecticut.
www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1369   (650 words)

  
 Timothy Dwight College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Timothy Dwight College, commonly abbreviated and referred to as "TD", is a residential college at Yale University named after two university presidents, Timothy Dwight IV and Timothy Dwight V.
The college's official motto, appearing on the college crest, is a quotation from the Aeneid (I, 203), when Aeneas seeks to comfort his men as they embark upon an arduous journey to Italy : Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.
The arms were likely invented by Jacob Hurd, a Boston silversmith, who engraved them on a tankard which he made in 1725 for the grandparents of the elder Timothy Dwight.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timothy_Dwight_College   (412 words)

  
 The Timothy Dwight Page
Dwight, a grandson of Jonathan Edwards, followed in Edwards footsteps, both in intellectual capacity, and in their common Reformed Theological view of life.
Dwight's insights into his generations' responsibilities to freed slaves is most imposing, and his concepts should be read and applied now, globally.
Dwight explains the metaphysical process, and the consequences for those who are friends to Fallen Angels.
www.angelfire.com /nh/politicalscience/timothydwightpage.html   (586 words)

  
 PAL: The Connecticut Wits
The Prospect of Peace, 1778 (poem); Poem, Spoken at the Public Commencement at Yale College, 1781; The Conspiracy of Kings, 1792 (poem); The Hasty-Pudding, 1793 (poem); Advice to a Raven in Russia, 1812, pub.
The major poems of Timothy Dwight, 1752-1817, with a dissertation on the history, eloquence, and poetry of the Bible.
Sears, John F. "Timothy Dwight and the American Landscape: The Composing Eye in Dwight's Travels in New England and New York." Early American Literature 11 (1976-77): 311-21.
www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap2/connwits.html   (890 words)

  
 Timothy Dwight
Today, as Timothy Dwight embarks on a year-long top-to-bottom renovation, plans are in place to ensure that the TD Press will, like that of Branford, be completely restored and improved during the college’s overhaul in 2001-2002.
The Master of the College, as well as supportive alumni and friends, expect that the renovated Timothy Dwight Press will receive additional equipment and type as well as a photopolymer unit, and occupy a completely overhauled, OSHA-compliant print shop.
Timothy Dwight already is planning to sponsor a credit-bearing college seminar in the Art of the Book during the Fall Semester of 2002.
www.fiveroses.org /Presses/TDPress.htm   (317 words)

  
 Timothy Dwight (1752-1817)
Fuller contextualization of Dwight might assist students in their coming to terms with the complexity of the era called the Enlightenment.
The Dwight presented in the anthology is the same Timothy Dwight, but the representation given here cannot by any means present the whole canon of the writings, just as the long Georgic poem, Greenfield Hill, cannot necessarily be said to be fully representative of this complex man and poet.
Students might be asked to examine Dwight's social attitudes in light of the writings by Prince Hall, Samson Occom, Hendrick Aupaumut, Benjamin Franklin, and Joel Barlow.
college.hmco.com /english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/dwight.html   (740 words)

  
 January 11: Timothy Yale died in office, having sparked revival at Yale
When Dwight became President in l795, students and faculty had drifted far from the Christian faith upon which the college was founded.
The college church was neglected; the students were wild and skeptical.
If Yale President Timothy Dwight were living, he would likely insist that faculty members, administrators, and students must make a personal commitment to Jesus Christ and His commandments.
chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2003/01/daily-01-11-2003.shtml   (622 words)

  
 The Dwight School: Academics
The Dwight School was the 58th school in the world to offer the IB diploma.
The spirit that unifies the Dwight School is that of faculty and students together living the life of IB learners and doers.
Dwight is subdivided into four separate academic houses: Timothy House (K-4), Bentley House (5-8), Franklin House (9-10), and Anglo House (11-12), plus the Early Years Program at Woodside Preschool.
www.dwight.edu /academics/index.asp   (235 words)

  
 ARTS LIBRARY @ YALE
This pamphlet, a keepsake for the 30th Anniversary Wayzgoose held in Timothy Dwight College on May 10, 1967, is presented to the Company with the compliments of the Yale University Press.
Rogers and myself in our opinion that it was possible to stimulate an interest in the Colleges in good printing and that it was not unreasonable to hope for work of high quality from young men whose principal interests were engaged in regular college work.
Haggard's press of Timothy Dwight, with something more up-to-date, it has done good service, in spite of its fourscore years, and a sight of the almost human ingenuity with which it goes about its business will repay a visit to the printing office of Branford College.
www.library.yale.edu /aob/random.html   (1061 words)

  
 Welcome to School Designs
Timothy Dwight College, one of 12 residential colleges at Yale University, was the last building completed there by James Gamble Rogers in 1935.
The new library for Timothy Dwight College consists of three interconnected, light-filled floors overlooking the college quadrangle.
The library shares the “town hall” entrance with the commons, the expanded dining room and the new servery, and it connects to the basement level, which is dedicated to new student activity spaces.
www.schooldesigns.com /ResultsDetail.asp?id=2233   (226 words)

  
 The Yale Herald - Sep 26, 2003 - The new face of Yale conservatism
Her compatriots don't necessarily hail from the ranks of the Yale Political Union or even the College Republicans—in fact, they tend to lack the organization of their liberal counterparts—but they do exist, and they're far more inclusive than most liberals imagine them to be.
Indeed, the college's founding rectors were Congregationalist ministers who found Harvard too liberal for their tastes and who wanted to build a new college for the express purpose of training future clergymen.
College Democrats and liberal activists have found much to do in New Haven, like registering student voters, or working with the local chapter of Planned Parenthood.
www.yaleherald.com /article-p.php?Article=2340   (2584 words)

  
 Guide to the Charles Garside Jr. papers, 1953-1987
Rice University Baker College material, teaching and History Dept. records, academic and scholarly correspondence, notes and drafts of books, articles, and lectures, as well as a quantity of Renaissance-Reformation subject files document the faculty and scholarly activities of Charles Garside Jr.
In 1966, when Garside left Yale for Rice, he was honored with a lifetime appointment as Associate Fellow of Timothy Dwight College, and the undergraduates endowed in his honor the Garside Cup.
Baker College material, teaching and History Dept. records, academic and scholarly correspondence, notes and drafts of books, articles, and lectures, as well as a quantity of Renaissance-Reformation subject files document the faculty and scholarly activities of Charles Garside Jr.
www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/ricewrc/00066/00066-P.html   (1366 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.