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The name "yale" is believed to be derived from the Hebrew word יָעֵל (yael), meaning "ibex".Other common names are "eale" or "centicore". The Septuagint translation of Job 39:1 rendered the word יָעֵל as τραγελάφων, which referred to the mythical tragelaphus, a half-goat half-stag, which in 1816 gave its name to a genus of antelope Tragelaphus.
Official seal used by the college and the university. Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.
Harkness Tower was the first couronne ("crown") tower in English Perpendicular Gothic style built in the modern era. [1] [4] James Gamble Rogers, who designed the tower and many of Yale's Collegiate Gothic structures, said it was inspired by the 15th-century Boston Stump, the 272-foot (83 m) tower of the parish church of St Botolph in Boston, Lincolnshire [1] and tallest parish church tower in ...
Originally named the Yale Scientific School, it was renamed in 1861 in honor of Joseph E. Sheffield, a railroad executive. The school was incorporated in 1871. The school was incorporated in 1871. The Sheffield Scientific School helped establish the model for the transition of U.S. higher education from a classical model to one which ...
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Skull and Bones entry from the 1948 Yale Banner. Skull and Bones, a secret society at Yale University, was founded in 1832. Until 1971, the organization published annual membership rosters, which were kept at Yale's library. In this list of notable Bonesmen, the number in parentheses represents the cohort year of Skull and Bones, as well as ...
Rafael Pérez-Escamilla Costas is a Mexican-American public health nutritionist. He is a Full professor in the division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology and director of the Office of Public Health Practice, the Global Health Concentration, and the Maternal Child Health Promotion program at Yale School of Public Health.
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