Talk:Log College

I was interested in the origins of the Log College as William Tennent is one of my forefathers and John Witherspoon is my wife's 4th greatgrandfather.

T. Harrell

Claim is not correct
"The Log College was, as a physical structure, very plain according to George Whitefield's journal; it was a purely a private institution and had no charter, though as a ministers' training college it was innovative, insofar as its founding was at a time when there were few college-educated ministers in North America." The claim that "it was innovative" is incorrect, as well as lacking a citation. Almost all the ministers in British Colonial America had BA degrees, and many (a majority) had MA degrees, from what we would now call "accredited" colleges. That is why Harvard, Yale, Princeton, William and Mary, King's College, etc. were founded; the Anglicans also imported ministers from Cambridge and Oxford, and the Presbyterians from Scottish Universities. If anything its "innovation" was in creating ministers without a credited degree - something that I think was common at dissenting academies in England.

I think it best to cut the latter two clauses from the sentence.Harrycroswell (talk) 10:17, 26 July 2018 (UTC)


 * That claim has been corrected, and then modified. Your information is also somewhat inaccurate.
 * As noted currently in another section of the article, the founding of Princeton University was at least partly inspired by Log College members, several of whom served on the first Board of Trustees of the future university. There is even a plaque outside the main door of Nassau Hall that proclaims the new name Princeton University by indicating (also somewhat inaccurately) Log College and College of New Jersey as its direct antecedents. I can't find the reference at present, but when I researched this topic for the history section of the university's web site a decade or so ago, there were clear indications that ordination actually required a college degree, and it had to be from Harvard, Yale, or an established college in Britain. The innovation refers to the New Side of the Presbyterian controversy during the First Great Awakening, which could not get ministers ordained in the Colonies. Martindo (talk) 02:06, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

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