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Decision on Mount Hermon
To a generation resigned to an “every man for himself” approach to life, the immediate outcome of the Mount Hermon Conference may seem strange, though the actions taken were simple enough. By its close, 100 young men had decided to give their lives away in the bright New England summer of 1886.
The Long Difficult Birthing
If the New Haven colony were to prosper in faithful service to God, a college was needed, not simply to train ministers, but, in Davenport’s own words, “to fit youth . . . for the service of God in church and commonwealth.”
Yale’s History Shows Students Must Choose: Revival or Rebellion
An urgent choice confronts Yale: whether to continue in its present drift toward rebellion or to return to the foundation on which the college began and grew. The choice in short is: revival or rebellion. Yale’s amazing history is proof enough that the present course can be changed.
Freshmen Who Changed Yale
Over the years, thousands of freshmen have come to Yale. They have studied four years, graduated, and passed into obscurity. But others have left an indelible mark on the university.
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Yale’s History Shows Students Must Choose: Revival or Rebellion
An urgent choice confronts Yale: whether to continue in its present drift toward rebellion or to return to the foundation on which the college began and grew. The choice in short is: revival or rebellion. Yale’s amazing history is proof enough that the present course can be changed.
Decision on Mount Hermon
To a generation resigned to an “every man for himself” approach to life, the immediate outcome of the Mount Hermon Conference may seem strange, though the actions taken were simple enough. By its close, 100 young men had decided to give their lives away in the bright New England summer of 1886.
The Making of Paradise
Meet an orphaned Hawaiian, Henry Obookiah, who came to the doorstep of Yale, and wept. He never returned to Hawaii, but Hawaii would never be the same….
The Simplicity of the Gospel
In 1735, at Oxford, a young man of twenty lay collapsed on his bed. Too weak to get up, he asked the college scout to tell his tutor that he was ill. The local surgeon-barber was sent to bleed him, but the scholar’s sickness continued. He had fallen ill through fasting and rigorous religious observances.
Banner of Faith, Fountain of Service
From the day it was dedicated, October 17, 1886, the original Dwight Hall building was a central meeting place—a home—for Yale students intent on transforming their campus, New Haven and beyond in the name of Jesus Christ.
Spiritual Highlights from Yale’s History
1638—John Davenport founds New Haven Colony intending to “drive things in the first assay as near to the precept and pattern of Scripture as they can be driven.” Land is set aside for a college “to fit youth… for the service of God in Church and Commonwealth.”
Yale: A Campus Like No Other
In your time at Yale, you will be taken on many tours of the campus. The buildings will perhaps seem impressively large and beautiful and their number forbidding. But the towers and ramparts of Yale have an order to them. Yale isn’t Zion, and her buildings aren’t holy, but they are reminders of Yale’s inheritance.
Frequent Revivals Mark Yale’s History
Today the average Yale undergraduate goes through his four years of college thinking that Yale has always been more or less what it is now. He would be confirmed in this belief by every aspect of his undergraduate life. Yale’s history will show that for the great majority of its 300+ years, Yale was thoroughly different from what it is today.
Amistad and Yale: The Untold Story
One morning late in August 1839, a strange ship appeared off Culloden Point, Long Island. She was long, low, and weather-beaten, her sails battered and torn. A troop of blacks, outlandishly dressed and armed with long knives and muskets, seemed to be her crew.
When Moody Thrilled Yale
Dwight L. Moody and Ira Sankey were well-known revivalists, seeking to bring the gospel of Jesus Christ to New Haven. The college took full part in the effort to bring the evangelists to the area.
Slavery Report Unjustly Accuses Timothy Dwight, Historical Record Vindicates Him
Right sympathies, and bad scholarship, have disfigured and falsified Timothy Dwight’s stance on slavery. The record, freed of arbitrary truncation and misplaced persons, makes this plain.
Pioneers of Missions and Telecommunications: Yale’s Amazing Morse Legacy
After the first line was completed, Morse wrote to his brother: “You will see by the papers how great success has attended the first efforts of the Telegraph… ‘What hath God wrought!’ It is his work, and He alone could have carried me thus far through all my trials and enabled me to triumph over the obstacles, physical and moral, which opposed me.”
The Long Difficult Birthing
If the New Haven colony were to prosper in faithful service to God, a college was needed, not simply to train ministers, but, in Davenport’s own words, “to fit youth . . . for the service of God in church and commonwealth.”
Timothy Dwight and Yale: The Making of a University
Few men have poured out as much for Yale as did Timothy Dwight. He was a prodigious scholar, a brilliant educator, and an educational reformer far ahead of his time. He was the chief architect of Yale as a university.
Good News from Yale, Faculty Impressed – Timothy Dwight on the Revival of 1802
Various reports have been circulated, in several parts of the country, concerning the attention to religion which for a short time past has prevailed among the students of Yale-College. Some persons have expressed a wish for a correct account of this subject.
Freshmen Who Changed Yale
Over the years, thousands of freshmen have come to Yale. They have studied four years, graduated, and passed into obscurity. But others have left an indelible mark on the university.
A Surprising Account – Revival in New York City
The first seven years of the 1850’s brought booming prosperity to the American economy, but in 1857, the boom collapsed in a nationwide financial crisis. Banks failed on every hand, and business slumped badly.
A Deeper Look At Yale’s Past: What Did Timothy Dwight, Edwards Have in Common?
A freshman’s first glimpse of Yale is by nature shallow—there is simply too much here to take in at once. Buildings from the last decade, the last century and the century before bear traces of thousands of students and faculty who at one time or another passed through; sidewalks, stairsteps and shortcuts were all well broken in before you first laid eyes on them.