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In 1961, the entities were legally merged and adopted the new name Hartford Seminary Foundation, which was used until 1981, when the simpler name "Hartford Seminary" came into use. [ 2 ] The Hartford Seminary Foundation published the Hartford Quarterly (originally named Bulletin – Hartford Seminary Foundation ) from 1960 to 1968.
Hartford Female Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut was established in 1823, by Catharine Beecher, making it one of the first major educational institutions for women in the United States. By 1826 it had enrolled nearly 100 students. It implemented then-radical programs such as physical education courses for women. [2]
The Bible Normal College of Hartford, Connecticut was a training school for Sunday school teachers. It started in 1885 as part of the School for Christian Workers in Springfield, Massachusetts; [1] in 1889, it became the first American seminary to accept women.
In the early nineteenth century the word seminary began to replace the word academy. The new word connoted a certain seriousness. The seminary saw its task primarily as professional preparation. The male seminary prepared men for the ministry; the female seminary took as its earnest job the training of women for teaching and for Republican ...
William John Samarin (February 7, 1926 - January 16, 2020) [1] was an American-born linguist and academic who was Professor at the Hartford Seminary and the University of Toronto. He is best known for his work on the language of religion, on the two central African languages Sango and Gbeya, on pidginization, and on ideophones in African ...
When Walter returned to the US, he studied at Hartford Seminary, was ordained a Congregationalist minister, and was an assistant minister in Asylum Hill, Connecticut, for three years. [1] Walter married Marguerite B. Darlington [3] on November 21, 1910, in a Brooklyn, New York, service officiated by James Henry Darlington. [2]
1823: Hartford Female Seminary: Beecher co-founded the Hartford Female Seminary, which was a school to train women to be mothers and teachers. It began with one room and seven students; within three years, it grew to almost 100 students, with 10 rooms and 8 teachers. The school had small class sizes, where advanced students taught other students.
Gleason began studying at Hartford Seminary in 1938 and received his PhD in 1946. [1] His 1961 text "Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics" (with an accompanying workbook) [2] was described in the journal Language as a suitable update to Leonard Bloomfield's well-known textbook Language. [3] Gleason retired in 1982. [4]