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Coat of arms of the family of Elihu Yale, after whom the university was named in 1718. In 1718, at the behest of either Rector Samuel Andrew or the colony's Governor Gurdon Saltonstall, Cotton Mather contacted the Boston-born businessman Elihu Yale to ask for money to construct a new building for the college.
Adam Snow, polo player, played varsity hockey and lacrosse at Yale against Harvard University [112] John Spagnola (B.A. 1978), football player with the NFL's Eagles, Seahawks and Packers [113] Jeff Van Gundy (attended Yale College for his freshman year), head coach for the NBA's New York Knicks and Houston Rockets [114]
Tom Wolfe, who earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale, named the African-American Atlanta police chief in A Man in Full Elihu Yale. Yale College, a former college in Wrexham, Wales, which has since merged with Coleg Cambria, was also named after Elihu Yale. Theodore Roosevelt's son Quentin kept a hyacinth macaw named Eli Yale.
Woodbridge Hall, location of the university president's office. Yale University was founded in 1701 as a school for Congregationalist ministers. One of its ten founding ministers, Abraham Pierson, became its first Rector, the administrative and ecclesiastical head of the college.
Yale College is the undergraduate college of Yale 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 institution was renamed Yale University.
Linus Yale Jr. was born in Salisbury, New York. His ancestors were of the same family as Elihu Yale, the benefactor to and namesake of the well known Yale University.The Yale family of America were all descended from the same ancestor, Thomas Yale, Elihu's only uncle with the Yale name.
Jul. 13—NEW LONDON — A career administrator who has taken on ever greater responsibility during a 37-year career with Yale New Haven Health has been named president of the system's Lawrence ...
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").