timothy dwight

Timothy Dwight (May 14, 1752 – January 11, 1817) was an American academic and educator, a congregationalist minister, theologian, and author. He was the eight president of yale college (1795–1817).





Timothy Dwight was born in Northhampton, Mass., into one of New England's most extraordinary families on May 14, 1752. Timothy was ready for college at 8, but Yale did not enroll him until he was 13. Studying 14 hours a day, he earned highest honors at graduation in 1769 but also developed an eye ailment that plagued him all his life. On June 25, 1795, Dwight accepted the presidency of Yale, a few weeks after the death of Stiles. For almost 22 years "Pope Dwight" (as the unregenerate called him) administered the college with great ability, ushering it into its modern era..Jan. 11, 1817, Dwight ceased to reign. His stormy life had personified the contradictions and strengths of New England Puritanism wedded to Federalism.

Tolerance

tol·er·ance

ˈtäl(ə)rəns/

noun

1. 1.

   the ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with.

   "the tolerance of corruption"

the literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance fix the ambiguity in which we live

The term “toleration”—from the Latin tolerare: to put up with, countenance or suffer—generally refers to the conditional acceptance of or non-interference with beliefs, actions or practices that one considers to be wrong but still “tolerable,” such that they should not be prohibited or constrained. There are many contexts in which we speak of a person or an institution as being tolerant: parents tolerate certain behavior of their children, a friend tolerates the weaknesses of another, a monarch tolerates dissent, a church tolerates homosexuality, a state tolerates a minority religion, a society tolerates deviant behavior.