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The Christ and the Samaritan Woman, a key item of Yale's collection, painted by Medici baroque painter Adriaen van der Werff [180] Coat of arms of Elihu, acquired by Yale College president Ezra Stiles in 1788, from the Yale family. Yale arrived in England with Indian artworks, and used his new wealth to build a large European art collection of ...
This is the larger of two versions at Yale, both presumably commissioned on the occasion of Yale's daughter Anne's betrothal to Lord James Cavendish. The work has been perceived as having been created to improve Yale's image amid criticism of his unjust enrichment with the East India Company and resultant aristocratic resentment at his wealth ...
Edward Alexander Bouchet (September 15, 1852 – October 28, 1918) was an American physicist and educator and was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from any American university, completing his dissertation in physics at Yale University in 1876.
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Durfee Hall was the first Yale College dormitory not situated on Old Brick Row, and was the first in the Old Campus' quadrangle arrangement. Battell Chapel: 1876 Russell Sturgis Replacing an earlier chapel for Yale College, the chapel was dedicated as a Civil War memorial. An 1893 expansion was designed by J. Cleaveland Cady, and an apse added ...
Nov. 6—EDITOR'S NOTE — This is the fourth in a five-part series on domestic violence. The topic may be too sensitive for some readers. Someone's life can be completely changed in eight short ...
Yale University has selected its first permanent female president after a long-search. Maurie McInnis became the 24th president of the Ivy League school, telling The New York Times she is ...
[7] [8] At Yale, he joined Delta Kappa Epsilon, of which he was from October 1965 until graduation, and the Skull and Bones secret society; Bush's father George H. W. Bush (1948) and grandfather Prescott S. Bush (1917) were also members of Skull and Bones. Bush was also in the Yale First XV rugby union team in 1968. [9]