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Connecticut Hall on the left and Welch Hall on the right. The Old Campus is the oldest area of the Yale University campus in New Haven, Connecticut.It is the principal residence of Yale College freshmen and also contains offices for the academic departments of Classics, English, History, Comparative Literature, and Philosophy.
The Hospital of Saint Raphael or Saint Raphael Hospital, located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, was a 511-bed community teaching hospital founded by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth in 1907. On September 12, 2012, Yale-New Haven Hospital acquired Saint Raphael and converted into the Yale-New Haven Hospital Saint Raphael ...
The oldest known settlement at the present-day site of the college was the farm of Robert Newman, whose barn hosted the meeting that incorporated the Colony of New Haven in 1639. [1] The tract later became one of the blocks of New Haven's original nine-square city plan. Yale's first buildings on the site were for the Sheffield Scientific School.
Dwight Hall at Yale is a student-run, staff supported public service and social action organization at Yale University. Founded in 1886, "The Hall" stands as one of the oldest and most storied collegiate public service institutions in the nation.
Elihu's house. Elihu Club is housed in a three-story white clapboard house built between 1762 and 1776 at 175 Elm Street. [14] [15] This house is the oldest of all of Yale's secret society buildings, and purportedly one of the oldest original structures in the United States still in regular use.
Sheffield Scientific School was founded in 1847 as a school of Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut, for instruction in science and engineering. 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.
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.
Theodore Dwight Woolsey was born 31 October 1801 in New York City. His mother was Elizabeth Dwight (1772–1813) and father was William Walton Woolsey (1766–1839). [2] At Yale, he served as President of the secret society, Brothers in Unity, and then graduated as valedictorian of his class from Yale College in 1820.