Several asked about Lutherans at Yale when I was there. Tuition was $2,000 for the whole year in 1972-73. Now room, board, and tuition is $45,000 and climbing.
Bethesda Lutheran Church was at the bottom of the hill below Yale Divinity School.
The YDS Lutheran professors were members and Jaroslav Pelikan attended there (though officially LCMS at the time). Pelikan eventually became a member of ELCA but joined the Eastern Orthodox Church.
We saw Pelikan every Sunday at Bethesda. He was then known as the editor of Luther's Works. He was working on his series about early church history when we were there.
He told his doctoral students, "All the best students are in math and the hard sciences, chemistry and physics."
Pelikan Obituary
