Set on a Hill
Chad P. Abel-Kops
January 1, 1998
Graduate education at Yale started for me with an unlikely adjunct professor: the cab driver who took me from the airport to the Divinity School. "Ah, seminary," he said inquisitively. "You know, I subscribe to the Biblical Archeology Review." "Oh," I answered, not quite prepared for an examination yet, "I see." "I think," he continued, "that it's just a matter of time before they determine the Bible to be the greatest hoax. That's why I'm agnostic." "Hum," I replied, not ready to discuss my faith with this academic dropout, not ready to be given a reason to drop out myself. The cabbie got me there safe, there being Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut. YDS sits on the plateau of Prospect Hill, in the best part of town, the part where, at the turn of the century, factory owners had their mansions while their workers lived and worked below. yds' current home, the Sterling Divinity Quadrangle, was built in the 193os as a miniature replica of the University of Virginia. The structure has weathered many a storm, and like much of Yale, is in desperate need of repair. Still, community life was vibrant and motley, an invaluable addition to any graduate experience. Graduate school, indeed seminary, can become like a cemetery (pun intended). Everyone is together the first month, going regularly to chapel, discussing the meaning of life in the refectory. By the second month, however, anxiety hits. One person even called it "Sexual Frustration Week." Of course, seminary is no "Animal House." On the other hand, we don't become monks either, especially at Yale. That is evident with free condom distribution during aids Awareness Week. The anxiety hits of papers to write, recommendations to get, sermons to preach; ...
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