Ezra Stiles Gannett, an honorable representative of the sanhedrin, addressed himself frankly to the issue in 1845, insisting that Parker should not be persecuted or calumniated and that in this republic no power to restrain him by force could exist.

The Ezra Stiles copy of the Brown University Charter of 1764

At the same time, local Congregationalists, led by the theologist Ezra Stiles, were working toward a similar end.

He enrolled at Yale just shy of his 16th birthday, studying during his senior year with the learned Ezra Stiles, Yale's president.

Yale was swept up by the great intellectual movements of the period — the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment — thanks to the religious and scientific interests of presidents Thomas Clap and Ezra Stiles.

The Reverend Ezra Stiles, president of the College from 1778 to 1795, brought with him his interest in the Hebrew language as a vehicle for studying ancient Biblical texts in their original language ( as was common in other schools ), requiring all freshmen to study Hebrew ( in contrast to Harvard, where only upperclassmen were required to study the language ) and is responsible for the Hebrew phrase אורים ותמים ( Urim and Thummim ) on the Yale seal.

In the 1950s he began to receive more commissions from American universities for campus designs and individual buildings ; these include the Noyes dormitory at Vassar, as well as an ice rink, Ingalls Rink, and Ezra Stiles & Morse Colleges at Yale University.

* Ezra Stiles College, Morse College, and Ingalls Rink ( affectionately known as " The Whale ") at Yale University

Other key texts of this period included Ezra Stiles ' The United States elevated to Glory and Honor ( 1783 ) and the Chronicles of Eri ( 1822 ).

He became a professor of comparative literature at Yale University, an author, and master of Ezra Stiles College at Yale, a post to which he was appointed by his predecessor as Yale president, Kingman Brewster, Jr .. Giamatti taught briefly at Princeton but spent most of his academic life at Yale.

Ezra Stiles ( November 29, 1727 – May 12, 1795 ) was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian and author.

Yale College diploma, Ezra Stiles, Class of 1746

Isaac Stiles in North Haven, Connecticut, Ezra Stiles graduated from Yale in 1746.

The Ezra Stiles House in Newport is on the National Historic Register.

Stiles ' son Ezra Stiles, Esq., was educated first at Yale College, then at Harvard College, where he studied law, graduating in 1778.

Ezra Stiles Jr. subsequently settled in Vermont, and served to establish the boundaries between Vermont and New Hampshire.

Ezra Stiles was also a dedicated supporter of the American Revolutionary cause, and an avid amateur scientist who corresponded with Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin about scientific discoveries.

Ezra Stiles House in Newport, Rhode Island

Volume carries notation: " Given to the Library of Yale College by Ezra Stiles 1785.

Named in his honor is Ezra Stiles College, one of Yale's residential colleges.

Adjacent to Ezra Stiles College is its near architectural twin, Morse College, named for Samuel F. B.

* Ezra Stiles College

The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles ( Vol.

It is an otherwise defunct club except for a few activities like the organizing of Ezra Cup under the patronage of its president Keshav Bangur.

Reverend Ezra Keller was the principal founder and first president of the college.

Although fiercely opposed by religious moderates — most notably Yale president Ezra Stiles — he was elected to the presidency of Yale on Stiles's death in 1795.

Ezra Stiles, later president of Yale University, was a strong influence in the young Nathanael's life.

Following the death of Church President Spencer W. Kimball in 1985, newly selected church president Ezra Taft Benson asked Gordon B. Hinckley and Monson to serve as his first and second counselors, respectively.

Ezra Taft Benson ( August 4, 1899 – May 30, 1994 ) was the thirteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) from 1985 until his death and was United States Secretary of Agriculture for both terms of the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Benson is the grandson of former U. S. Secretary of Agriculture and former LDS Church president Ezra Taft Benson.

In 1764, John Brown joined his brothers Nicholas Brown and Moses Brown as well as William Ellery, the Baptist Reverend James Manning, the Baptist Reverend Isaac Backus, the Congregationalist Reverend and later Yale College president Ezra Stiles, former Chief Justice of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Stephen Hopkins and several others as an original fellow or trustee for the chartering of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ( the original name for Brown University ).

Zuckerman is one of the investors defrauded in a " Ponzi Scheme ," by way of investments with Fifth Avenue Synagogue president J. Ezra Merkin who staked roughly 10 % ($ 30 million ) of Zuckerman's charitable trust fund with convicted scammer Bernard Madoff.

Yale president Ezra Stiles conceived the idea of training physicians at Yale and ultimately, his successor Timothy Dwight IV helped to found the medical school.

Benson's great-grandson, also named Ezra Taft Benson, also became an apostle of the LDS Church ; the younger Benson served as U. S. Secretary of Agriculture in the 1950s and president of the LDS Church in the 1980s and 1990s.

* Ezra Brainerd, president of Middlebury College in Vermont

Ezra Taft Benson becomes the 13th president of the church.

* Ezra Stiles ( 1727-1795 ), American educator, president of Yale University

It was originally incorporated in 1886 as The E. B. Eddy Manufacturing Company with Ezra Butler Eddy as its president.

* 1949 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.

* February 19 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.

Volume carries notation: " Given to the Library of Yale College by Ezra Stiles 1785.

* Ezra Stiles ( 1727 – 1795 )— President of Yale University.

Ezra Stiles at Yale was a prominent supporter of restoration of the Jews.

Letter from Ezra Stiles to George Washington announcing the awarding of an Honorary degree to Washington by President and Fellows of Yale College, 1781

Sarah told Ezra Stiles of Yale that she was born at East Haven and Dr. Blair Rudes confirmed that she was indeed Quinnipiac.