Porter, Noah

D.D. (University of New-York City 1858, Edinb. 1886), LL.D, (Western Reserve College, O., 1870; Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., 1871), Congregation alist; b. at Farming ton, Conn., Dec. 14, 1811; graduated at Yale College, New Haven, Conn., 1831; was master of Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, 1831-33; tutor at Yale, 1833-35; pastor at New Milford, Conn., 1836-43; at Springfield, Ma ., 1843-46; Clark profe or of metaphysics and moral philosophy at Yale College, 1846-71; president of Yale College, 1871-86. He is the author of Historical Discourse at Farming ton, Nov. 4; 1840 (commemorating two-hundredth anniversary of its settlement), Hartford, 1841; The Educational Systems of the Puritans and Jesuits compared, New York, 1851; The Human Lntellect, 1868, 3d ed. 1876; Books and Reading, 1870, 6th ed. 1881; American Colleges and the American Public, 1870, 2d ed. 1878; Elements of Intellectual Science, 1871, 2d ed. 1876; Sciences of Nature versus the Science of Man, 1871; Evangeline: the Place, the Story, and the Poem, 1882; Science and Sentiment, 1882; The Elements of Moral Science, Theoretical and Practical, 1885; Bishop Berkeley, 1885; Kant's Ethics, a Critical Exposition, Chicago, 1886. He was the principal editor of the revised editions of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Ma ., 1864 and 1880.