DEC -9 1926 сх .Y16 PREFACE The Yale Divinity School was established in October, 1822. It has therefore rounded out one hundred years of honorable and useful history. During that period three thousand six hundred and eighteen men have studied in the Divinity School. They have come from all the various branches of the Protestant Church and they have gone out into all the states of the Union and into all the lands of earth to invest their training in unselfish service. The great majority of these men have engaged in the work of the pastorate in this country. Two hundred and fifty men have gone to the foreign field as missionaries; over six hundred have become college professors, and more than one hundred have been elected as presidents of colleges and universities. In all these varied fields of Christian activity the graduates of this School have been showing forth the results of the training received at Yale. In connection with the celebration of our One Hundredth Anniversary it has seemed fitting that the members of the Faculty should publish this Centennial Volume. The various chapters in this book have been written with the thought of indicating to the popular mind the particular contribution made in the courses offered by each chair to the work of "Education for Christian Service." We regret that Professor Kenneth S. Latourette of the Department of Missions was unable, because of absence |