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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.
At Yale University, the undergraduate student government is known as the Yale College Council. [3] High school student governments usually are known as Student Council. Student governments vary widely in their internal structure and degree of influence on institutional policy.
Wolf's Head is a senior secret society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The society is one of the reputed "Big Three" societies at Yale, along with Skull and Bones and Scroll and Key. [1] It was establihsed in 1883. [2] Originally an all-male organization, women have been tapped for membership since the spring of 1992. [3]
The Memorial Quadrangle, completed in 1920, was the colleges' residential template.. As undergraduate enrollment in Yale College surged in the early 20th century, alumni and administrators began to express concern that the college had lost its social cohesion and lacked residential facilities sufficient for its size.
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 ...
[49] [50] Past members were associated intimately with the: coeducation of Yale College, [51] establishment of the Yale residential college system and the Harvard house system, [52] founding of the Elizabethan Club, [53] and founding of the Yale Political Union. [54] This was Yale's last all-male society. Women have been tapped since the spring ...
Flags of the Ivy League. The Ivy Council is a non-profit organization of Ivy League student government leaders, student organization leaders, and students at-large. It was established in 1990 by members of the Ivy League student governments to facilitate communication among themselves and to speak with a unified voice.
Alanna Schepartz was born on January 9, 1962, in New York City and was raised in Rego Park, Queens.She graduated from Forest Hills High School in 1978 at the age of 16. She then earned a B.S. degree in chemistry from the State University of New York, Albany and a PhD degree in Organic Chemistry from Columbia University, where she worked under the supervision of Ronald Breslow.