Theodore Dwight Woolsey ... Memorial Address Before The Graduates Of Yale University, June 24, 1890
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Timothy Dwight was an American clergyman and educator. He became a president of Yale University. During his professional career, Dwight was also editing and translating some books.
Background
Timothy Dwight was born on November 16, 1828, in Norwich, Connecticut, of a family noted for its achievements in literary and academic fields. His grandfather, Timothy, one of the "Hartford Wits, " and himself president of Yale for twenty-two years, was a grandson of Jonathan Edwards. The younger Timothy's father, James Dwight, although a successful businessman, had the family taste for study. To his mother, however, Susan Breed, a woman of unusual intellectual power, Timothy felt himself above all indebted. "I owed more to her, " he says, "in the matter of the awakening of my mental enthusiasm than to any or all the teachers of my childhood and youth". She was a descendant of Allen Breed, who came to this country and settled at Lynn, Massachussets, about 1630, and the daughter of John McLaren and Rebecca (Walker) Breed, the former a lawyer, mayor of Norwich, and noted for enterprise, benevolence, and public spirit.
Education
Because his mother believed in home education, Timothy did not attend school until he was eleven years old, when he entered the academy in Norwich conducted by Calvin Tracy. He finished his preparation for college at the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, where his mother had gone that she might be with her sons during their period of study; entered Yale at the age of seventeen, although he was sufficiently prepared a year earlier; and graduated in 1849. From boyhood he had looked forward to the life of a Congregational minister, and he was licensed to preach, May 22, 1855, and ordained, September 15, 1861. It was to be his fortune, however, to spend his days in academic surroundings. His sermons were chiefly occasional. A volume of these, most of them preached to Yale students, was published in 1899, under the title, Thoughts of and for the Inner Life. From 1849 to 1851, having won the Clark Scholarship for the student who passed the best examination on the studies of the college course, he did graduate work at Yale.
He was also enrolled in the Divinity School, where, after study at Bonn and Berlin (1856 - 1858).
Career
From boyhood he had looked forward to the life of a Congregational minister, and he was licensed to preach, May 22, 1855, and ordained, September 15, 1861. It was to be his fortune, however, to spend his days in academic surroundings. His sermons were chiefly occasional. A volume of these, most of them preached to Yale students, was published in 1899, under the title, Thoughts of and for the Inner Life.
From 1849 to 1851, having won the Clark Scholarship for the student who passed the best examination on the studies of the college course, he did graduate work at Yale.
He then filled the office of tutor for four years, his fair-mindedness, tact, and humor making him extraordinarily popular. For the first two years of this period he was also enrolled in the Divinity School, where, after study at Bonn and Berlin (1856 - 58), he was appointed assistant professor of sacred literature, becoming full professor in 1861.
He was an excellent New Testament scholar according to the standards of the time, and his accuracy and good sense were of much service to the American committee on the revision of the Bible, of which he was a member from 1873 to 1885.
He also edited (1884 - 87) several volumes of the English translation of H. A. W. Meyer’s commentaries on the books of the New Testament, and published in 18S6 a translation with additional notes of Godet’s Commentary on the Gospel of John. During his professorship the Divinity School was practically refounded. It was a task requiring great faith, wisdom, courage, and hard work. To all these Dwight contributed more perhaps than any one else.
In 1886 he succeeded Noah Porter as president of the college. From 1866 he had been one of the editors of the New Englander, and in 1870-71 had published in it a series of five articles on “Yale College - Some Thoughts Respecting its Future. ”
The recommendations he had there made, he now proceeded to put into execution. An act was secured from the legislature authorizing the title “University”; the various schools were reconstructed and coordinated; and the college became a university in fact. The institution needed more money and buildings. The president did not personally solicit funds, but made clear the opportunity that was offered. He himself turned back his salary into the treasury, and from his inherited fortune contributed more, until the total amounted to over $100, 000. He also undertook the duties of treasurer for a period, and supplied tire college pulpit. The needed funds came, and the University had great expansion.
At the age of seventy he resigned with the remark that he “proposed to do so while he still knew enough to know that he ought to. ” Besides a number of addresses he published Memories of Yale Life and Men, 1845-1899 (1903), which contains much autobiographical material.
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Membership
Dwight was a member of the Linonian Society, Phi Beta Kappa, and Skull and Bones. He was also an associate member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an honorary member of the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati in 1895.
Personality
Dwight's fair-mindedness, tact, and humor were making him extraordinarily popular. He was a genial, lovable, modest man, thoroughly human, capable of delightful flashes of humor, intensely practical, and displaying throughout his career indomitable faith and devotion to duty.
Connections
On December 31, 1866, Dwight married Jane Wakeman Skinner of New Haven.