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Elihu Yale (5 April 1649 – 8 July 1721) was a British-American colonial administrator. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Yale lived in America only as a child, and spent the rest of his life in England, Wales, and India. He became a clerk for the East India Company at Fort St. George, later Madras, and eventually rose to the Presidency of the ...
The painting depicts Elihu Yale at its centre. The left foreground is occupied by Lord James Cavendish. [1] The man to the left of Yale is believed to be David Yale, Yale's chosen heir due to his lack of a son. He replaced a landscape part of the painting, being added at a later date than the others.
Elihu Yale of Wallingford was born in 1747, to Theophilus Yale and Azubah Wolf, members of the Yale family. [1] [2] [3] His grandfather, Capt. Theophilus Yale, was a magistrate of the city, while his great-grandfather, Capt. Thomas Yale, was one of the founders of Wallingford, Connecticut.
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, ... "Down the Field" by C.W. O'Conner, and "Bingo Eli Yale", also by Cole Porter, are still ...
The Harvard Glee Club (HGC), and more recently the Radcliffe Choral Society (RCS), perform Harvardiana as part of their annual Harvard-Yale Football Concert. This concert takes place the night before the iconic football game between the two schools and involves the performance of a series of fight songs accompanied by heckling from the other school's choir(s).
An accordion rendition is featured in the 1954 film Phffft, when Kim Novak's character leads patrons in a restaurant in singing the song, while she waves pom poms.. A brass-band arrangement of the "Boola Boola" tune accompanies the sequence in Peter Yates' 1969 film John and Mary in which Mary imagines herself sitting on a bench wrapped in a blanket, watching John (Dustin Hoffman) play tennis ...
"Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" is the most frequently performed of Harvard University's fight songs. [1] Composed by Murray Taylor and lyrics by A. Putnam of Harvard College's class of 1918, it is among the fight songs performed by the Harvard Glee Club at its annual joint concert with the Yale Glee Club the night before the annual Harvard-Yale football game, as well as at the game itself.
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