Porter, Noah
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 14, 1811, in Farmington, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman of Connecticut, president of Yale college in 1871-85, and a metaphysician of distinction. He was the author of The Human Intellect; Books and Reading; Elements of Intellectual Science; Elements of Moral Science; The American Colleges and the American Public; Science and Sentiment; Bishop Berkeley; Fifteen Years in Yale College Chapel, a volume of sermons; and The Science of Nature and the Science of Man. He died March 4, 1892, in New Haven, Conn.