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Berkeley College is a residential college at Yale University, opened in 1934.The eighth of Yale's 14 residential colleges, it was named in honor of Bishop George Berkeley (1685–1753), dean of Derry and later bishop of Cloyne, in recognition of the assistance in land and books that he gave to Yale in the 18th century.
Other names are student senate, associated students (west coast institutions almost exclusively), or less commonly students' union. There was one instance of a government of the student body, at Iowa State University. [2] At Yale University, the undergraduate student government is known as the Yale College Council. [3]
Shirley Ann Dean (née Bryant; born 1935-36), considered moderate in Berkeley politics, [1] is an American politician who served as the Mayor of Berkeley, California (1994-2002). Before serving two terms as Berkeley's Mayor, Dean served on the Berkeley City Council for 15 years (1975–94) [2] and was a leader of the Berkeley Democratic Club.
Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, founded in 1854, is a seminary of The Episcopal Church in New Haven, Connecticut.Along with Andover Newton Theological School and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Berkeley is one of the three "Partners on the Quad," which are part of Yale Divinity School at Yale University.
He then went to Yale University where he studied with Robert Dahl. Some of his fellow students include Raymond Wolfinger and Aaron Wildavsky. [3] He got a master's degree and a doctoral degree from Yale in 1958 and 1961. [8] [4] Polsby later served on Yale University's council (1978-2000) and was the president from 1986-1993. [9]
Frank Seiler Butterworth (1895), member Connecticut State Senate, All-American football player and coach [36]: 30 Francis Burton Harrison (1895), US Representative from New York, Governor-General of the Philippines [4]: 166 Frank Augustus Hinkey (1895), zinc smelting business, College Football Hall of Fame player and coach [13]: 169–70
William Samuel Johnson (B.A. 1744, M.A. 1747), United States Founding Father, member of the Continental Congress (1785–1787), delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, president (1787–1800) of Columbia University (he was its first president under its new name of Columbia College; his father was the first president of the ...
Woodbridge Hall, location of the university president's office. Yale University was founded in 1701 as a school for Congregationalist ministers. One of its ten founding ministers, Abraham Pierson, became its first Rector, the administrative and ecclesiastical head of the college.