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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.
Yale College is the undergraduate college of Yale University. Founded in 1701, it is the original school of the university. Founded in 1701, it is the original school of the university. Although other Yale schools were founded as early as 1810, all of Yale was officially known as Yale College until 1887, when its schools were confederated and ...
The Humanities Quadrangle (HQ), originally the Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS), is an academic quadrangle at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.First opened in 1932, the building was designed as a Collegiate Gothic structure by architect James Gamble Rogers.
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 Elihu Club was founded by eleven students in 1903 as an "open senior society", rather than a secret society. [6] [7] [5] [8] At the time, this was considered in "variance with accepted traditions" at Yale and "an interesting democratic innovation". [8] its name from Elihu Yale who was the primary benefactor of Yale College. [3]
The Bicentennial Buildings–University Commons, the Memorial Rotunda, and Woolsey Hall–were the first buildings constructed for Yale University as opposed to one of its constituent entities (Yale College, Sheffield Scientific School, or others), reflecting a greater emphasis on central administration initiated by Presidents Timothy Dwight and Arthur Twining Hadley. [1]
Main entrance to Jonathan Edwards College. In 1930, Yale President James Rowland Angell announced a "Quadrangle Plan" for Yale College, establishing small collegiate communities in the style of Oxford and Cambridge in order to foster more social intimacy among students and faculty, relieve dormitory overcrowding, and reduce the influence of on-campus fraternities and societies.
The Yale School of Medicine is the medical school of Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was founded in 1810 as the Medical Institution of Yale College and formally opened in 1813. [1] It is the sixth-oldest medical school in the United States. [2] The school’s faculty clinical practice is Yale Medicine.