Yale University was founded on October 16, 1701 by Congregationalist ministers unhappy with the growing liberalism at Harvard. It wasn't called Yale then, but rather the Collegiate School.
The Congregationalist ministers donated forty books and declared their objective, that "Youth may be instructed in the Arts and Sciences who through the blessing of God may be fitted for Publick employment both in Church and Civil State."
The first diploma awarded by Yale College was granted to Nathaniel Chauncey in 1702.
It 1718 the Collegiate School was re-named Yale University after Boston-born Elihu Yale, (April 5, 1649 – July 8, 1721). Yale was a successful merchant and the President of the East India Company settlement in Fort St. George, at Madras, India. A benefactor of the Collegiate School, he donated books and goods worth $2,500 to the Collegiate School.
During the shaky founding years of the Collegiate College, colonial agent Jeremiah Dummer (1681 – May 19, 1739) was an important force in the solidification of the college's future. Dummer sought donations for the school in the form of money and books, eventually securing donations from several benefactors including Elihu Yale. In fact Jeremiah Dummer did more for Yale University than Elihu Yale, but the trustees didn't want the school known as "Dummer College."
Yale Daily News was the first daily college newspaper in the United States. The independent student newspaper was published by Yale University students on January 28, 1878.
Yale School of Medicine was established following passage of a bill in the Connecticut General Assembly in 1810. The school opened its doors three years later with four professors and 37 students and conferred its first degrees in 1814.
Sporting competition between universities dates back to August 3, 1852, when the Harvard-Yale rowing regatta first took place on Lake Winnepeasaukee, New Hampshire.
In 1861 Yale University started granting the PhD degree to younger students who, after having obtained the bachelor's degree, had completed a prescribed course of graduate study and successfully defended a thesis or dissertation containing original research in science or in the humanities. They were the first ever PhDs to be awarded in North America.
The first three earned PhDs in North America were awarded by Yale University to Eugene Schuyler, Arthur Williams Wright, and James Morris Whiton in 1861.
Yale football player and coach Walter Camp (April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925) is known as the "Father of American Football". Among the sport's most distinctive features he introduced, included the eleven-man team, a type of scrimmage in which a player snapped the ball back by kicking it to the quarterback and the system of downs.
In 1889 the bulldog Handsome Dan became Yale University's mascot. He was the first animal to hold such a position in American sports.
The Yale Bowl is a college football stadium located about 1½ miles (2½ km) west of the main campus of Yale University. It is the home of the Yale Bulldogs of the Ivy League. When it opened on November 21, 1914 with 70,896 seats, it was the first bowl-shaped stadium in the country. Its design was an modification of the old U-shape - it was U-shaped at both ends. The Yale Bowl inspired the design of such stadiums as the Rose Bowl, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and Michigan Stadium.
The frisbee was invented by Yale students in 1947. They played with aluminium pie plates supplied by a local baker, Joseph Frisbie, whose Frisbie Pie Company was a regular supplier to the University. They discovered his plates had amazing aerodynamic qualities when thrown to each other.
Hillary and Bill Clinton first met at the Yale Law School in 1971. She was a class year ahead of him.
The hospice movement arrived in the United States in 1975 after a lecture on the subject by its founder, Cicely Saunders at Yale University.
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The Congregationalist ministers donated forty books and declared their objective, that "Youth may be instructed in the Arts and Sciences who through the blessing of God may be fitted for Publick employment both in Church and Civil State."
The first diploma awarded by Yale College was granted to Nathaniel Chauncey in 1702.
It 1718 the Collegiate School was re-named Yale University after Boston-born Elihu Yale, (April 5, 1649 – July 8, 1721). Yale was a successful merchant and the President of the East India Company settlement in Fort St. George, at Madras, India. A benefactor of the Collegiate School, he donated books and goods worth $2,500 to the Collegiate School.
During the shaky founding years of the Collegiate College, colonial agent Jeremiah Dummer (1681 – May 19, 1739) was an important force in the solidification of the college's future. Dummer sought donations for the school in the form of money and books, eventually securing donations from several benefactors including Elihu Yale. In fact Jeremiah Dummer did more for Yale University than Elihu Yale, but the trustees didn't want the school known as "Dummer College."
Yale Daily News was the first daily college newspaper in the United States. The independent student newspaper was published by Yale University students on January 28, 1878.
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| A Front View of Yale-College and the College Chapel, Daniel Bowen, 1786. |
Yale School of Medicine was established following passage of a bill in the Connecticut General Assembly in 1810. The school opened its doors three years later with four professors and 37 students and conferred its first degrees in 1814.
Sporting competition between universities dates back to August 3, 1852, when the Harvard-Yale rowing regatta first took place on Lake Winnepeasaukee, New Hampshire.
In 1861 Yale University started granting the PhD degree to younger students who, after having obtained the bachelor's degree, had completed a prescribed course of graduate study and successfully defended a thesis or dissertation containing original research in science or in the humanities. They were the first ever PhDs to be awarded in North America.
The first three earned PhDs in North America were awarded by Yale University to Eugene Schuyler, Arthur Williams Wright, and James Morris Whiton in 1861.
Yale football player and coach Walter Camp (April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925) is known as the "Father of American Football". Among the sport's most distinctive features he introduced, included the eleven-man team, a type of scrimmage in which a player snapped the ball back by kicking it to the quarterback and the system of downs.
In 1889 the bulldog Handsome Dan became Yale University's mascot. He was the first animal to hold such a position in American sports.
The Yale Bowl is a college football stadium located about 1½ miles (2½ km) west of the main campus of Yale University. It is the home of the Yale Bulldogs of the Ivy League. When it opened on November 21, 1914 with 70,896 seats, it was the first bowl-shaped stadium in the country. Its design was an modification of the old U-shape - it was U-shaped at both ends. The Yale Bowl inspired the design of such stadiums as the Rose Bowl, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and Michigan Stadium.
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| Yale bowl. By ToddC4176, |
The frisbee was invented by Yale students in 1947. They played with aluminium pie plates supplied by a local baker, Joseph Frisbie, whose Frisbie Pie Company was a regular supplier to the University. They discovered his plates had amazing aerodynamic qualities when thrown to each other.
Hillary and Bill Clinton first met at the Yale Law School in 1971. She was a class year ahead of him.
The hospice movement arrived in the United States in 1975 after a lecture on the subject by its founder, Cicely Saunders at Yale University.
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