President Dwight's Decisions Of Questions Discussed By The Senior Class In Yale College, In 1813 And 1814 - Couverture rigide
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The notes from which die following work has been composed, were written in 1813 and 1814, in a stenographic character, from the lips of the late President Dwight, during his instructions to the Senior Class of Yale College, of which the author was a member. The record was made at the time merely for the authors private gratification; and the laborious I process of transcribing the original manuscripts has been pursued at occasional intervals of leisure during the years which have intervened, I though until recently without any design of publishing. The instructions given by President Dwight to the Senior, Class, I which was under his particular care, were extemporaneous; and the sermons which he preached in the college chapel on the sabbath, as Professor of Theology, were the only portion of his productions as a teacher which he committe to paper. On account of a weakness of the eyes, from which he suffered so great a part of his life, he was obliged to resort to the method of extemporaneous instruction, which he rendered at once so interesti Dgand so usehil, that it was generally more highly prized by the students than any other of the academic exercises. It was sometimes noticed, that those who had expressed least regard for the preceding studies were among the most regular and attentive at the recitations of their senior year; and it was no uncommon thing to hear regret expressed, that the tolling of the bell for dinner in the Commons Hall should interrupt a course of remarks, sometimes unconsciously prolonged for more than two hours. The high repute in which the extemporaneous instructions of the President were held by preceding classes, with a great reverence for his character, excited in the author a strong desire to make as faithful a record of them asp sible. He tlierefore began the collegiate year with the practice of a simple system of stenography,
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