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The Yale University coat of arms is the primary emblem of Yale University. It has a field of the color Yale Blue with an open book and the Hebrew words Urim and Thummim inscribed upon it in Hebrew letters. [1] Below the shield on a scroll appears Yale's official motto, Lux et Veritas (Latin for "Light and Truth").
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In heraldic language, the coat of arms may be described as Argent, a lion passant above a cross crosslet fitchy gules; in a chief gules a crescent silver. The arms were likely invented by Jacob Hurd, [ 11 ] a Boston silversmith, who engraved them on a tankard which he made in 1725 for the grandparents of the elder Timothy Dwight.
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.
The bowl was made and presented to Brattle in 1695 by his Harvard students, as the original inscription "Ex dono Pupillorum" indicates. The Brattle coat of arms is engraved on the rim. The bowl bears Dummer's mark, a heart-shaped device within which are his initials, with a small pellet between the initial, and a fleur-de-lis.
The U.S. Army establishes a heraldry office and a system of unit coats of arms in 1919. An early example of an English grant of honorary arms to a US citizen descended from a pre-1783 colonist: Alain C. White, in 1920. [4] The 51st Artillery Regiment is the first army unit to adopt a coat of arms, in 1922. President Calvin Coolidge has a coat ...
The painting is now at Yale University Gallery, while about 214 of the books are at Yale Library. [140] Yale's will included donations to the poor of Wrexham in Wales, to Christ's Hospital in London, St Bartholomew's Hospital, St Thomas' Hospital, various workhouse and poorhouses, and to Connecticut College, later known as Yale. [141]
The compartment of the coat of arms of Michigan is similar. [4] A rare instance in which the supporters stand on the motto scroll is in the arms of New Jersey. [5] The coat of arms of the Netherlands, likewise, features the two lion supporters standing on the motto scroll. Usually when arms are augmented by supporters, a compartment will be ...