Jonathan Edwards College, Winter 2004

Jonathan Edwards College is a residential college at Yale University. Established in 1932, it is the oldest of Yale's residential colleges and is generally called "J.E." J.E. is Yale's only residential college with an independent endowment, the Jonathan Edwards Trust. As a result, J.E. is able to support special initiatives and events related to student life and social activities, particularly within the arts. Furthermore, J.E. was the only college to finance its own renovation, predating university-wide residential college renovations by nearly a decade. 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... Harvard Colleges residential houses and Yales residential colleges have established sisterly relationships, much like the Oxbridge sister colleges. ... Eliot House is one of twelve upper-class residential houses at Harvard University. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x1824, 369 KB) Summary Jonathan Edwards College, Winter 2004 Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x1824, 369 KB) Summary Jonathan Edwards College, Winter 2004 Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... A residential college is an organisational pattern for a division of a university that places academic activity in a community setting of students and faculty, usually at a residence and with shared meals, the college having a degree of autonomy and a federated relationship with the overall university. ... Yale redirects here. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ...

History

In 1931, Yale University administration borrowed a housing idea from Oxford and Cambridge, the two leading British Universities. The result was a development plan that forever changed the face of Yale College: the Residential College System. The year 1932 saw the construction of Jonathan Edwards College as the first of the original seven residential quadrangles under the direction of architect James Gamble Rogers. 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... The University of Cambridge (often called Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... James Gamble Rogers is the architect who designed Butler Library at Columbia University and who also designed many of the gothic structures at Yale University in the 1910s and 1920s. ...

Jonathan Edwards College began during the academic year 1932-33 when Professor Robert Dudley French, the first Master, appointed eight members of the faculty to be the first fellows of the College. These men were chosen because they combined distinction in both teaching and scholarship, and because of their individuality and diversity of interests. As a corporate body they constituted the essential qualities of and intimate collegiate community, delighting in the pursuit of knowledge and in the vigorous exchange of ideas, not only among themselves, but with the undergraduates who joined them in the fall of 1933 when the college opened their doors. 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Together with the first Master they established a pattern for one of Yale's smallest Colleges, designed to encourage individuality and provide a forum where each could express ideas and beliefs in the company of Fellows and fellow students, both old and young.

Namesake

Yale's first and foremost child prodigy, Jonathan Edwards, matriculated at Yale (then Collegiate School of Connecticut) in 1716 just before reaching 13. This, at a time when entrance into college required fluency in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Four years and one intense conversion later, he graduated as valedictorian, received his Masters of Divinity from Yale in 1722 and went on to become one of America's most renowned theologians and philosophers,and a testimony to Yale's mind-altering powers. Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703- March 22, 1758) was a colonial American Congregational preacher and theologian. ...

Badge and Crest

Jonathan Edwards College Coat of Arms

The badge worn upon the College blazers is a red apple surrounded by a green serpent. It recalls the Reverend Jonathan Edwards's preoccupation with the doctrine of original sin. It is borne aloud and not upon a shield. It was devised by the first Master and Fellows, and designed by H. Dillington Palmer B.A. 1924. It forms the silver head of the ebony mace of the College, hanging in the Master's Office as the symbol of authority. When a more formal device is desired for use on a decorative shield, banner, a letterhead, or a title page, the coat of arms is preferred. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1008x1236, 468 KB) Summary The Jonathan Edwards College Coat of Arms Licensing This is a logo of a corporation, sports team, or other organization, and is protected by copyright and/or trademark. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1008x1236, 468 KB) Summary The Jonathan Edwards College Coat of Arms Licensing This is a logo of a corporation, sports team, or other organization, and is protected by copyright and/or trademark. ...

The coat of arms described in heraldic terms is: ermine, a lion rampant vert (green). This coat is a simplified form of the arms used by the Revered Jonathan Edwards himself. He had it engraved upon the most valuable piece of silver in his possession - a tankard purchased by him with money present by his congregation in Stockbridge. The tankard, now in the New Haven Historical Society, was made about 1757 by Zachariah Brigden, silversmith, of Boston, who had learned his art as apprentice to Jonathan's kinsman, Thomas Edwards, The arms which it beards do not indicate the color of the lion. In the arms of the College the lion is green, the color adopted by the College some years ago. - c. 1938

The green rearing lion symbolizes courage and purity of heart. Its crimson tongue and nails exhibit willingness to pursue its goals with passion both of speech and strength. The veil of white that surrounds the lion symbolizes the Grace of God, and the other eleven residential colleges are represented by the eleven black daggers (a later modification of the crest).

Mascot: The Spider

J.E.'s mascot is the Spider, derived from Jonathan Edwards's famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." One famous line reads: "The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked..." Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, one of the most famous of all fire and brimstone sermons, was first preached by Jonathan Edwards, a prominent Puritan minister, in Enfield, Connecticut, in 1741. ...

The mascot is also derived from the fact that Jonathan Edwards completed the pioneer study on spiders in the New World.

Miscellany

In 1932, upon the eve of Yale's fall semester, which residential College does the New York Times single out as the most beautiful, the most harmonious, the apotheosis of Universities? Jonathan Edwards.[1] The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

Apparently, JE Sux. This name came about because of an unfortunate bladderball mishap at Yale. The spiders claim this as their rallying cry. Yet, there is a subtle difference between SUCKS and SUX. The latter being an ironic, self-demeaning but promoting mantra. Bladderball was a game traditionally played by students of Yale University, between 1954 and 1982. ...

Yale's child prodigy Jonathan Edwards left quite a prodigious legacy indeed. Jonathan Edwards is the only residential college at Yale whose patriarch has graced the pages of Ripley's Believe It or Not.[2] Ripleys Believe It or Not! deals in the bizarre—events and items so strange and unusual that it is often hard to believe that they actually exist--but they do: believe it. ...

JE students celebrate the return of spring with Wet Monday. The freshmen storm the college with the intent of getting upperclassmen and the walls of the college wet. The upperclassmen pin their honor on preventing the onslaught. Dyngus Day or Wet Monday (Polish Śmigus-dyngus, lany poniedziałek or Oblewania) is the name for Easter Monday in Poland. ...

Notable alumni

• Wilbur Ross, 1959, financier, member of the Forbes 400
• John Kerry, 1966, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1983-85) U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1985-Present), U.S. Presidential Candidate (2004)
• Gary Locke, 1972, Governor of Washington (1997-2005)
• Donna Dubinsky, 1977, CEO of Palm, Inc., co-founder of Handspring, member of the Forbes 400
• Ellen Bork, 1983, lawyer, deputy director of the Project for the New American Century and daughter of failed U.S. Supreme Court Nominee Robert Bork

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External links

• Jonathan Edwards College, Yale
• "Why JE Sux" by Mark B. Ryan, Dean 1976-96