The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-25
Educator of Strong Personality

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 One of the most attractive periodicals in this country is the Yale Review, pub lished quarterly. It Is quite up to the standard of the best British reviews The table of contents shows as rule an ad- mirable balance of subjects and the ar ticles are of high literary merit. In the current issue, among the striking papers contributed by a publicist is, "Why Can ada Rejected Reciprocity Lady Greg ory writes of The Irish Theatre and une People" Edwin Thorsten berg gives us an Illuminating article on The Historical Existence of Fairies and in biography Theodore S. Woolsey. at the head of the Yale law department. begins a sketch of his distinguished father, the late Theo- dore Dwight Woolsey, D. D., LL. D., who was professor of Greek in Yale col- lege in the thirties and who was presi- dent of Yale from 1S46 to 1871.
 Dr. Woolsey was born in New York city in 1901 and he died in New Haven in dency of Yale he lectured from time to time in the law school and was actively engaged in studies In political science. He was q great scholar and was distin- guished for his strength of character. The impresss he left on Yale was far reaching. Dr. Woolsey was never a pastor, but he frequently preached in the college chapel. He was graduated al Yale in 1920, at the head of his class, Here are some facts gleaned from the sons biographical essay.
 pr. WoolseY's father was an influential merchant in New York; his two brothers both graduates of the class of 1913, were engaged in active business. College train- ing was the custom of the family, fol both pr. Woolseys grandfather and great-grandfather had been nurtured with | at | ly imply clerical profession or the ides of an academic life. He had plentiful | clerical ancestry, however, which ma well have influenced his mind" Presiden Dwight was his uncle by marriage; Jon athan Edwards was his great grand father; James Pierpont was also an aE- cestor, a step further removed his own paternal great grandfather was a oler- gyman on Long Island. continuing to preach after he had retired from a charge to his own estate 'The influences. there fore, as to choice of profession to which my father was subject must have been various Perhaps it was the example of his closet friends rather than home ad- vice which for a time urged him to the ministry. This was not his first determi- nation, however. He did not profess re- llgious faith and connect himself with the church until his senior year, and the first
 
 law"
 The subject of this sketch entered the theological seminary at Princeton, where, according to the son. There presently developed tendency of mind from which he was rarely altogether free in after years and which at times darlSened his life. This was an extreme conscientious ness, an abnormal sense of moral re- sponsbllity and of sin"
 As a student at Yale he was member of the social and literary coterie known as the Borthers in Unity. This brother hood issued a weekly literary journal called The Talebearer," and Woolsey was one of the responsible editors. An anonymous correspondent writing in ''The Talebearer' had this 10 say: What is remarkable respecting the dress of the students now, is the facility and dispatch with which they obtain fashions. Having sometimes gone to New York to purchase goods, I have there observed the latest fashions; and returning to my native city. have found that after three months these selfsame fashions were introduced here. Is that fact. sir. which I hear reported, that the tailors of New York after run ming out the fashions there, send up hither all their unstable articles, and that thus our fashions are introduced"
 The elder Woolsey did not sem to nave been in favor of Theodore studying the-