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Jeff Van Gundy (attended Yale College for his freshman year), head coach for the NBA's New York Knicks and Houston Rockets [115] Ben Wanger, American-Israeli baseball pitcher, Team Israel; Anne Warner (B.A. 1976), first Yale College female undergraduate to win an Olympic medal (bronze, rowing) [116] [117]
[27] [28] The Yale Daily News first appeared on January 28, 1878. A memoir of the first college daily's birth records its first year strategy to "rag" the societies. [29] The Class of 1884 unanimously agreed to support a new revolt against the society system by issuing a vote of no confidence to coincide with their graduation.
Rumpus was first published in fall 1992 by Yale Record contributor Ryan Craig, [1] Euny Hong, and other members of the Classes of 1994 and 1995. Rumpus claims to be the "Oldest College Tabloid," a play on both the Yale Daily News ("Oldest College Daily") [2] and the Yale Record ("Oldest College Humor Magazine").
In the start of the academic year in 1933, Branford College opened its doors. Clarence Whittlesey Mendell, Dean of Yale College , had been named Master in 1931 and he held the post until 1943. What impressed quite a few visitors to Branford was the calm and subdued character of the College.
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. On the basis of his academic record he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa society. In 1874, he ...
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The Ivy League nude posture photos were taken in the 1940s through the 1970s of all incoming freshmen at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania (which are members of the Ivy League) and Seven Sisters colleges (as well as Swarthmore), ostensibly to gauge the rate and severity of rickets, scoliosis, and lordosis in the population.
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 ...