president of Yale College, was, like Nathan Hale,
a descendant of Elder Strong who founded Northampton,
Massachusetts. Dwight graduated in
1769, the year Hale entered college. He then
became a tutor and was a personal friend of Hale's.
He was a teacher of extraordinary power and was
made president of Yale in 1795. He was one of the
most remarkable men of his time, molding the
moral and religious, as well as intellectual, character
of the college so that his influence extended
not only over the whole state but, to a great degree,
over the whole United States. He was a fine
illustration of the great abilities that centered in so
many of the leading families of the colonists. Such
connections as this man add even a higher luster
to the genealogy of Elizabeth Strong Hale, and
lessen our wonder that a son of hers, while hardly
more than a boy, could face the duty and calmly
accept the responsibility that he felt rested upon
him.

As may easily be inferred, the Hale boys, Enoch
and Nathan, were not forgotten by their home
friends while making honorable records in college,
and forming pleasant friendships outside the college
walls--then the happy lot of all the best men in
college--among the cultured families of what was
then a small New England city.

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