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Morse College is one of the fourteen residential colleges at Yale University, built in 1961 and designed by Eero Saarinen. It is adjacent to Ezra Stiles College and the two colleges share many facilities. The current Head of College is Catherine Panter-Brick. [1] The Associate Head of College is Mark Eggerman. [2] Blake Trimble is the Dean of ...
Ezra Stiles College is one of the fourteen residential colleges at Yale University, built in 1961 and designed by Eero Saarinen. [1] The college is named after Ezra Stiles, the seventh President of Yale. Architecturally, it is known for its lack of right angles between walls in the living areas. It sits next to Morse College.
In 1962, another gift from Mellon allowed Yale to build Morse College and Ezra Stiles College on the former site of James Hillhouse High School. Yale attempted to build two more residential colleges in 1972 on Whitney Avenue designed by Mitchell/Giurgola , but aborted the plan after the New Haven municipal government rejected an increase in ...
Adam Snow, polo player, played varsity hockey and lacrosse at Yale against Harvard University [109] John Spagnola (B.A. 1978), football player with the NFL's Eagles, Seahawks and Packers [110] Jeff Van Gundy (attended Yale College for his freshman year), head coach for the NBA's New York Knicks and Houston Rockets [111]
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.
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Ezra Stiles (10 December [O.S. 29 November] 1727 – May 12, 1795) [1] [2] was an American educator, academic, Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author. He is noted as the seventh president of Yale College (1778–1795) and one of the founders of Brown University.
He was acting dean of Morse College (1982) and dean of Calhoun College (1982–85), and then became associate dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1985–90). His book, The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth-Century Britain , was published by Yale University Press in 1990, [ 2 ] and was included in the Outstanding Academic Books List ...