The Evolution of the American College (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Evolution of the American College
Intermediate education began at seven, when the boy was registered as a prospective citizen and began to go to school. The school houses were public property and were rented to the schoolmasters, of whom there were two; one for gymnastic, and the other for music; and to both the pupil went every day.
Higher education began at about fourteen, and continued until the young man reached his majority. During this period the elegant gym nastic of the preceding period was continued, and was supplemented by athletic and military training.
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Biblical studies are a set of diverse di...)
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Biblical studies are a set of diverse disciplines that are concerned with a study of the Bible, i.e. the Tanach and the New Testament. There were four gospels comprising the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John), and these are the main sources of information about the life of Jesus. Bible studies itself draws on many disciplines ranging from archaeology, ancient history, cultural backgrounds, textual criticism, literary criticism, historical backgrounds, philology, and social science. As to philology for example, most of the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh, which formed the basis of the Christian Old Testament, was written in Biblical Hebrew, with a few chapters rendered in Biblical Aramaic. On the other hand, the New Testament was written in Koine Greek.
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John Bodine Thompson was an American educator and clergyman.
Background
Thompson was born at Readington, N. J. in 1830, the son of Joseph and Ann (Post) Thompson. He was the great-grandson of John Thomson, a Scotch emigrant who settled in Hunterdon County, N. J. , married Juda Bodin (Judith Bodine), a descendant of the early Huguenot settlers, and about 1777 joined a group that undertook settlement in the Shamokin country of Pennsylvania. When he was killed in an Indian attack of 1778, his widow accomplished the feat of walking back to New Jersey, wheeling their only son and the family Bible in a small cart. There she reared the boy, also called John, to a place of influence and responsibility. He changed the spelling of the family name. Her grandson, Joseph, was one of the leading citizens of central New Jersey, a teacher, surveyor, farmer, and for over thirty years county judge of either Hunterdon or Somerset county courts. John Bodine Thompson was his eldest son.
Education
When a mere boy he taught in a rural school and in 1851 was graduated from Rutgers College. He had entered the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in America at New Brunswick, was graduated in 1858, and was licensed to preach.
Career
He was active in the mid-century movement to improve the educational system of New Jersey, led by Richard S. Field. As agent of the New Jersey Teachers' Association from 1856 to 1859, he traveled up and down the state, delivering addresses and organizing teachers' institutes and urging the establishment of high schools and normal schools. He also advocated school libraries and the social use of school houses and libraries by the community, and he was among the first to urge summer schools.
He held pastorates at Metuchen, N. J. , 1859-66, and at Tarrytown, 1866-69, Saugerties, 1869-71, Peekskill, 1873-74, and Catskill, 1874-84, in New York. During a long vacation, 1871-73, he went to Europe, where he supplied the pulpit of the American Protestant Church at Florence and studied at Tübingen University, still at the height of its fame as a seat of liberal theology.
In company with Alessandro Gavazzi, the leader of the Free Italian Church and in his time one of the greatest of the Italian orators, he returned to the United States and was helpful in obtaining contributions for that movement. A large and dynamic man, he was an inspiration to those with whom he came in contact, and especially to young men and women in the formative years. Many of these later regarded his influence as the intellectual and moral background of their lives. From 1884 to 1888 he was minister of the First Presbyterian Church at Berkeley, Cal. , where he became a close friend of Joseph LeConte.
He was also professor in the Presbyterian Theological School at San Francisco. He published voluminously, addresses such as The Evolution of the American College (1894), bits of family description as John Thomson and Family (1889, also in J. F. Meginness, Otzinachson: A History of the . Susquehanna, 1889, vol. I), and such other contributions as the chapter on "The Middle of the Century" in David Murray's History of Education in New Jersey (1899). He was chairman of the committee responsible for Reformed Church . Hymns (1869). He died in Trenton, N. J.
Achievements
He is remembered as a clergyman of the Reformed church in America.
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Religion
Religiously he was a liberal, philosophically a Hegelian, and he believed that the doctrine of the Trinity ought to be formulated in more philosophical terms.
Connections
On April 5, 1859, he was married to Hannah Garrigues Reeve. They had two sons.
