Noah Porter
President of Yale University | |
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| In office 1871–1886 | |
| Preceded by | Theodore Dwight Woolsey |
| Succeeded by | Timothy Dwight V |
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| Born | Noah Porter Jr. December 14, 1811 Farmington, Connecticut |
| Died | March 4, 1892 (aged 80) New Haven, Connecticut |
| Alma mater | Yale College |
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Noah Thomas Porter III (December 14, 1811 – March 4, 1892)
Biography
He was born to Noah Porter Jr. (1781–1866) (one of the first ministers of First Church of Christ, Congregational in
He was ordained as a
Porter was inaugurated as President of Yale College on Wednesday, October 11, 1871.[5] He continued to serve as head of the college until 1886.
Porter edited several editions of Webster's Dictionary, and wrote on education.[6]
Influenced by the German refugee writer and philosopher Francis Lieber, Porter opposed slavery and integrated an antislavery position with religious liberalism.
He was a frequent visitor to the Adirondack Mountains of New York, and in 1875 was among the first recorded to make an ascent of the peak later named Porter Mountain in his honor.
His best-known work is The Human Intellect, with an Introduction upon Psychology and the Human Soul (1868), comprehending a general history of philosophy, and following in part the "common-sense" philosophy of the
He died on March 4, 1892, in New Haven,[1] and was buried in the Grove Street Cemetery there.
Notes
- ^ a b c Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, Yale University, 1891-2, New Haven, pp. 82-83.
- ^ Welch, Lewis et al. (1899). Yale, Her Campus, Class-rooms, and Athletics, p. 445.
- ^ "First Church 1652 Farmington - History in Brief".
- ^ "Noah Porter".
- ^ Addresses at the Inauguration of Professor Noah Porter, D.D., LL.D., as President of Yale College,p. 3.
- ^ An American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster, LL.D. Thoroughly Revised, and Greatly Enlarged and Improved, by Chauncey A. Goodrich, D.D., and Noah Porter, D.D. Springfield, MASS: G.& S. Merriam. 1865. Retrieved February 16, 2018 – via Internet Archive.
References
- Kelley, Brooks Mather. (1999). Yale: A History. New Haven: ISBN 978-0-300-07843-5; OCLC 810552
- Levesque, George. “Noah Porter Revisited,” History of Higher Education Annual, 26 (2007), 29–66.
- Welch, Lewis Sheldon and Walter Camp. (1899). Yale, Her Campus, Class-rooms, and Athletics. Boston: L. C. Page and Co. OCLC 2191518
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Porter, Noah". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 116.
External links
- Civil Liberty: A Sermon, from the Antislavery Literature Project
- The Human Intellect: With an Introduction upon Psychology and the Soul via Google Books.
- Peirce, C. S. (1869), "Professor Porter's Human Intellect" (review), The Nation 8, 211–13 (March 18, 1869). Peirce Edition Project Eprint.
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