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After the Penn Club of New York (est. 1901) became the first alumni clubhouse to join Clubhouse Row for inter-club events at 30 West 44th Street [3] after Harvard Club of New York City (est. 1888) at 27 West 44th, then New York Yacht Club (est. 1899) at 37 West 44th, and Yale Club of New York City (est. 1915) on East 44th (and Vanderbilt) and ...
There are two "common rooms" in addition to the primary common room (located underneath the Dining Hall). Located between Linonia and Branford Courts is the Fellows' Lounge, where the Fellows of the College meet. This room is called the Trumbull Room, in memory of the first art gallery at Yale, which was built to house the paintings of John ...
The Yale Club of New York City, founded in 1897, the world's largest gentlemen's club. The following is a list of notable traditional gentlemen's clubs in the United States, including those that are now defunct. Historically, these clubs were exclusively for men, [1] but most (though not all) now admit women.
The Yale Club sold an option on the building in April 1916 to another club, which the Yale Club's president declined to identify. [61] A holding company, operated by Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) fraternity, bought 30 West 44th Street in July 1916. [62] [63] At the time, the building was valued at $390,000. [63]
Yale originally planned to name the college after John C. Calhoun, a Yale graduate, U.S. vice president, and secessionist. In deference to Sterling being a Civil War veteran from Connecticut, the university agreed to name the college after Jonathan Trumbull and gave the name Calhoun to another residential college (now re-named Hopper College). [1]
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.
Model of the Memorial Quadrangle. The Memorial Quadrangle is a residential quadrangle at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.Commissioned in 1917 to supply much-needed student housing for Yale College, it was Yale's first Collegiate Gothic building and its first project by James Gamble Rogers, who later designed ten other major buildings for the university.
[3] [4] Eventually, the Colony Club started using the name Berzelius. BZ, as the society is called often, is the third oldest society at Yale and the oldest of those of the now-defunct Sheffield Scientific School , the institution which from 1854 to 1956 was the sciences and engineering college of Yale University.