* 1703 – Thomas Clap, American minister and academic ( d. 1767 )

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.

* June 26 – Thomas Clap, first president of Yale University ( d. 1767 )

* January 7 – Thomas Clap, first president of Yale University ( b. 1703 )

As head of Yale College, Thomas Clap was both the last to be called " rector " ( 1740 – 1745 ) and the first to be referred to as president ( 1745 – 1766 ).

Book frontispiece | Frontispiece, The Annals or History of Yale College in New Haven, in the Colony of Connecticut, by Yale President Thomas Clap, 1766.

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Book frontispiece | Frontispiece, The Annals or History of Yale College in New Haven, in the Colony of Connecticut, by Yale President Thomas Clap, 1766.

Puritan Protagonist: President Thomas Clap of Yale College.

* Thomas Clap ( 1703 – 1767 )— Rector & President of Yale College

Thomas Clap, Jonathan Edwards, Burr, and Jonathan Dickinson founded the College of New Jersey ( now Princeton University ) at Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1746.

" The donation was used in 1756 by President Thomas Clap to establish the Livingstonian Professorship of Divinity.

* Thomas Clap or Thomas Clapp ( 1703 – 1767 ), President of Yale College

His paternal grandfather, Nathan Perkins Seymour, was the great-great grandson of Thomas Clap, who was President of Yale in the 1740s.

In 1753, President Thomas Clap began holding separate Sunday worship services for students in the college instead of at First Church, because he felt that the minister, Joseph Noyes, was theologically suspect.

Timothy Pitkin ( Yale 1747 ), great-granddaughter Governor William Pitkin and the Reverend Thomas Clap, who was the fifth President of Yale College ; and a descendant of Governors George Wyllys and John Haynes of Connecticut and Governor Thomas Dudley of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony.

One of the early humorists already mentioned, Thomas Bangs Thorpe, can be used to illustrate another point where Faulkner touches authentic Southern materials and also earlier literary treatment of those materials.

Thomas also presents a simple equation for deriving an index of persistence, which weights not only the number of stems ( ' roots ' ) per meaning, but their relative frequency.

Averroes, Avicenna and Alpharabius, who wrote on Aristotle in great depth, also influenced Thomas Aquinas and other Western Christian scholastic philosophers.

" Through Methodism, Wesley's teachings also inspire a large scholarly following, with vocal proponents including J. Kenneth Grider, Stanley Hauerwas, Thomas Oden, Thomas Jay Oord, and William Willimon.

She answered her accusers that she received tuition from Thomas Reid, a former barony officer who had died at the Battle of Pinkie some 30 years before and also from the Queen of the Elfhame which lay nearby.

The poem is quoted by Sue Bridehead in Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel, Jude the Obscure and also by Edward Ashburnham in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier.

Due to mutual agreements with foreign clubs, the youth academy has also signed foreign players as teenagers before making first team debuts, such as Belgian defensive trio Jan Vertonghen, Toby Alderweireld and Thomas Vermaelen ( now with Arsenal ) and winger Tom de Mul ( now with Sevilla ), all of whom are full internationals as well as Dutch youth international Javier Martina and Vurnon Anita of the Netherlands Antilles.

Hill also recounted an instance in which Thomas examined a can of Coke on his desk and asked, " Who has put pubic hair on my Coke?

Maj. Gen. Thomas C. Hindman also charged Pike with mishandling of money and material, ordering his arrest.

John Wesley consecrated Thomas Coke a " General Superintendent ," and directed that Francis Asbury also be consecrated for the United States of America in 1784, where the Methodist Episcopal Church first became a separate denomination apart from the Church of England.

Olson, who had also worked under Thomas at the EEOC and was a close friend of Thomas, spoke out on his behalf during his contentious Senate confirmation hearings.

William Fitzstephen ( d. about 1190 ), in his biography of Thomas Becket, gives a graphic sketch of the London of his day and, writing of the summer amusements of the young men, says that on holidays they were " exercised in Leaping, Shooting, Wrestling, Casting of Stones jactu lapidum, and Throwing of Javelins fitted with Loops for the Purpose, which they strive to fling before the Mark ; they also use Bucklers, like fighting Men.

Sir Thomas Felton fought not only at Poitiers but also the Battle of Crécy.

Chaplin has also been the subject of a musical, Limelight – The Story of Charlie Chaplin by Christopher Curtis and Thomas Meehan, which was performed at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2010.

See also Thomas Jefferson's letter to Thomas Cooper.

It also gave support to the Cornish language, and commemorated Thomas Flamank, a leader of the Cornish Rebellion in 1497, at an annual ceremony at Bodmin on 27 June each year.

She also trained for the mission STS-83 to be the backup for Donald A. Thomas ; however, as he recovered on time, she did not fly that mission.

The term " Cheer Leader " had been used as early as 1897, with Princeton's football officials having named three students as Cheer Leaders: Thomas, Easton and Guerin from Princeton's classes of 1898, 1898 and 1899, respectively, on October 26, 1897 ; these students would cheer for the team also at football practices, and special cheering sections were designated in the stands for the games themselves for both the home and visiting teams.

She was also a patron of Renaissance humanism, and a friend of the great scholars Erasmus of Rotterdam and Saint Thomas More.

In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.

Bondi and Thomas Gold used the Copernican principle to argue for the perfect cosmological principle which maintains that the universe is also homogeneous in time, and is the basis for the steady-state cosmology.

The famous literary opium addicts Thomas De Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Wilkie Collins also took it for its pleasurable effects.

A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

Thomas Nagel spelled out this point of view in an influential essay titled What Is it Like to Be a Bat ?.

The term took on its present meaning from a group of ministers of King Charles II of England ( Sir Thomas Clifford, Lord Arlington, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Ashley, and Lord Lauderdale ), whose initial letters coincidentally spelled CABAL, and who were the signatories of the public Treaty of Dover that allied England to France in a prospective war against the Netherlands.

A brief word about spelling and pronunciation: Thomas Abell ( spelled correctly with the double " l '" and pronounced as " A bell " ( rhymes with " day bell "), not as " able.

The title of Sir Thomas More's 1516 fictional work Utopia is a double entendre because of the pun between two Greek-derived words that would have identical pronunciation: with his spelling, it means " no place " ( as echoed later in Samuel Butler's later Erewhon ); spelled as the rare word Eutopia, it is pronounced the same by English-speaking readers, but has the meaning " good place ".

According to Worcester, about the year 1775, town records started appearing with the town's name spelled as " Hollis " ( after Thomas Hollis ), and both names were used until about 1815, after which, only the name " Hollis " appears "... while Holles, the name of the Duke of Newcastle, has passed into merited oblivion.

Le Morte d ' Arthur ( originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for " the death of Arthur ") is a compilation by Sir Thomas Malory of Romance tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, and the Knights of the Round Table.

The earlier names of the island were São Tomás ( after Thomas Becket of Canterbury, not to be confused with Saint Thomas, which in Portuguese is spelled Tomé ) and Santa Iria ().

Sir Thomas Moulson ( sometimes spelled " Mowlson ") ( 1582 – 1638 ), an alderman and member of the Grocers ' Company, was a Sheriff of London in 1624 and Lord Mayor of London in 1634.

Van Mander's list was Crispin van den Broeck, Joris van Ghent ( who served Philip II of Spain ), Marten ( and his brother Hendrick ) van Cleve, Lucas de Heere, Anthonie Blocklandt van Montfoort, Thomas van Zirickzee, Simon van Amsterdam, Isaac Claesz van Swanenburg ( spelled Isaack Claessen Cloeck ), Frans Menton, George Boba, the 3 Francken brothers Jeroen, Frans and Ambrosius, Joos de Beer, Hans de Maier van Herentals, Apert Francen van Delft, Lois van Brussel, Thomas van Coelen, Hans Daelmans van Antwerpen, Evert van Amersfoort, Herman van der Mast, Damiaen van der Goude, Jeroen van Vissenaken, Steven Croonenborgh uyt den Hage, and Dirck Verlaen van Haerlem.

Probably the most famous of the lighthouse keepers was also the last one, Thomas Jefferson Steinhice ( also spelled Steinhise and Steinheiss on various family documents ).

Thomas Helliker ( sometimes spelled Hilliker ) ( 23 March 1784 – 22 March 1803 ) was a figure in early English trade union history who was hanged, aged 19, for his alleged role in machine-breaking at a Wiltshire woollen mill.

Thomas Underdown, also spelled Underdowne ( fl.

Edward Darcy Esquire v Thomas Allin of London Haberdasher ( 1599 ) 74 ER 1131 ( also spelled as " Allain " or " Allen " and " Allein " but most widely known as the Case of Monopolies ), was an early landmark case in English law, establishing that the grant of exclusive rights to produce any article was improper ( monopoly ).

Thomas Stukley ( surname also spelled as Stucley,

The name Yaghan ( originally spelled Yahgan ), was first used by Lucas's father Thomas Bridges as a shortened form of Yahgashagalumoala ( meaning people from mountain valley channel ), the name of the inhabitants of the Murray Channel ( Yahgashaga ), from whom Thomas Bridges first learned the language.