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YALE UNIVERSITY
, the third See also:oldest university in the See also:United States, at New Haven, See also:Connecticut
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The founders of the New Haven See also:colony, like those of See also:Massachusetts See also:Bay, cherished the See also:establishment of a See also:college as an essential See also:part of their ideal of a See also:Christian See also:state,, of which See also:education and See also:religion should be the basis and the See also:chief fruits
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New Haven since 1644 had contributed annually to the support of Harvard College, but the distance of the See also:Cambridge school from See also:southern New See also:England seemed in these days considerable; and a See also:separate educational establishment was also called for by a divergent development in politics and See also:theology
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Yale was founded by ministers selected by the churches of the colony, as See also:President See also:
This had been made possible by a See also:gift from Elihu Yale (1649-1721), a native of Boston and son of one of the See also:original settlers of New Haven; he had amassed See also:great See also:wealth in See also:India, where he was, See also:governor of the See also:East India See also:Company's See also:settlement at See also:Madras
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The trustees accordingly named it Yale College in his See also:honour
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The charter of 1701 stated that the end of the school was the instruction of youth " in the arts and sciences," that they might be fitted " for public employment, both in See also:
By a supplementary See also:act of 1723 the rector was made ex-officio a trustee
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By a second charter (1745) ample powers were conferred upon the president (rector) and See also:fellows, constituting together a governing See also:board or Corporation
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This charter is still in force
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In 1792 the governor and See also:lieutenant-governor of the state, and six state senators, were made ex-officio members of the Corporation
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In 1872 the six senators were replaced by six graduates, chosen by the alumni See also:body
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The clerical See also:element still constitutes one See also:half of the Corporation
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In the first half of the 19th See also:century, under the See also:lead of Nathaniel W
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See also: In 1803 a See also:chair was created for See also:Benjamin See also:Silliman, Sr . (1779-1864) in See also:chemistry and natural See also:history; See also:English grammar and See also:geography did not disappear from the curriculum until 1826, nor See also:arithmetic until 1830; See also:political See also:economy was introduced in 1825, and See also:modern See also:languages (See also:French) in the same year . Not until 1847 did modern history receive separate recognition . The Library had been given the status of an independent department in 1843 . Compulsory See also:commons were abolished in 1842, thus removing one feature of a private boarding school . See also:Corporal See also:punishment (" cuffing " of the offender's ears by the President) had disappeared before the See also:War of See also:Independence; and so also had the See also:custom of See also:printing the students' names according to their social See also:rank, and using a " degradation " in See also:precedence as punishment; while Dwight abolished the See also:ancient custom of See also:fagging, and the undemocratic See also:system of fines that enabled a See also:rich student to live as he pleased at the expense only of his See also:pocket . The School of See also:Law was established in 1843 . Instruction to graduates in non-professional courses seems to have been begun in 1826 . The See also:appointment of See also:Edward E . See also:Salisbury to the chair of Arabic and See also:Sanskrit (1841) was the first See also:provision at Yale for the instruction of graduates by professors independent of the College . About the same time See also:graduate instruction in chemistry became important . (In 1846 also a chair of agricultural chemistry was established—the first in the See also:country.) In 1846 an extra-College department of Philosophy and Arts was created, conferring degrees since 1852; and from this were separated in 1854 the sciences, which were entrusted to a separate Scientific School, the original See also:promoter of agricultural experiment stations in the United States . Since that time this school and the College have See also:developed much as complementary and co-See also:ordinate schools of undergraduates, Yale affording in this respect a very marked contrast with Harvard . Graduate instruction was concentrated in 1871 into a distinct Graduate School . This with the three traditional professional schools—the See also:Art School, established in 1866 (instruction since 1869), and the first university art school of the country, the See also:Music School, established in 1894 (instruction since 1890), and the See also:Forest School, established in 'goo—make up the University, around the College . For the See also:founding of the See also:Peabody Museum of @Natural History, George Peabody, of See also:London, contributed $150,000 in 1866 . The See also:Observatory, devoted exclusively to See also:research, was established in 1871 . In 1887 the name Yale " University " was adopted . The organic unity of the whole was then recognized by throwing open to students of any department the advantages of all . In 1886, for the first time, a president was chosen who was not of the College See also:faculty, but from the University faculty . Great as were the changes in the See also:metamorphosis of old Yale, none had more See also:influence upon its real and inner See also:life than the See also:gradual See also:extension of the freedom accorded the students inthe selection of their studies . In 1854 there was no See also:election permissible until See also:late in the Junior year . In 1876, 1884 and 1893 such freedom was greatly extended . In 1892 the work of the Graduate School was formally opened to See also:women (some professors having admitted them for years past by special consent) .
Yale was the first college in New England to take this step
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The buildings number sixty-four in all
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The University is organized in four departments—Philosophy and the Arts, Theology, See also:Medicine, and Law—each with a distinct faculty
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The first embraces the Academical Department (College), the Sheffield Scientific School,—named in honour of See also:Joseph See also:Earle Sheffield (1793–1882), a generous benefactor,—the School of the See also:Fine Arts, the Department of Music, the Graduate School and the Forest School, founded in 1900 by a gift of $150,000 from J
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Pinchot and his wife
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Other institutions organized independently of any one department are: the Library, the Peabody Museum of Natural History, the Astronomical Observatory and the Botanical See also:Garden, established in 1900 on the See also:estate of See also:Professor O
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The special treasures of the Library include the classical library of See also:Ernst See also:Curtius; the collection of See also:Oriental books and See also:manuscripts made by Edward E
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Salisbury (1814–1901); the See also:Chinese library of Samuel See also:Wells See also:Williams (1812–1884); a See also:Japanese collection of above 3000 volumes; the Scandinavian library of See also:Count Riant; the collection of Arabic manuscripts made by Count Landberg; the political See also:science collection of See also:Robert von See also:Mohl; a copy of See also:Newton's Principia presented to the College by the author; manuscripts of See also:Jonathan See also:Edwards; and large parts of a gift of nearly a thousand volumes given to Yale in 1733 by See also:Bishop George See also:Berkeley, who also gave to the College his See also:American See also:farm, as a basis of a scholarship, the first established in See also:America
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The Library is especially strong in the departments of American history, See also:medieval history and English dramatic literature
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Its See also:total number of volumes in 1910 was nearly 600,000, exclusive of many thousand See also:pamphlets
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The Peabody Museum contains an unrivalled collection of See also:Silurian See also:trilobites; a fine collection of pseudo-morphs; a beautiful collection of Chinese See also:artistic work in See also:
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The School of the Fine Arts possesses the Jarves See also:gallery of See also:Italian art, a remarkable collection of Italian " primitives " dating from the 11th to the 17th century; the Alden collection of Belgian See also:wood-carvings, of the 17th century; and a large collection of modern paintings among which are fifty-four pictures by See also: It confers the degree of See also:Master of Forestry . In the College the individual courses are arranged in twenty-six groups within three divisions, and each student must complete before See also:graduation both a See also:major and a See also:minor in some one of the three divisions and one minor in each of the other two divisions . In the Freshman and See also:Sophomore years the student's freedom of election is further restricted . In the Scientific School there is a somewhat different system of groups . The College confers only the degree of See also:Bachelor of Arts, but the Scientific School confers the degrees of Bachelor of Philosophy, Master of Science (requiring at least one year of See also:resident graduate study), and the engineering degrees . In the Divinity School the student has the choice of three courses—the See also:historical, the philosophical and the See also:practical—or, by the use of electives, he may combine the three; the study of See also:Hebrew is required only in the historical course . In the Law School there is one course for candidates for the degree of Bachelor of See also:Laws and another for candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law, the latter requiring the study of See also:Roman law and allowing the substitution of certain studies in political science for some of the law subjects . The Graduate School confers the degrees of Master of Arts and See also:Doctor of Philosophy; the School of Music,the degree of Bachelor of Music; and the School of Fine Arts, which is open to both sexes, the degree of Bachelor of the Fine Arts . In 1910 the body of See also:officers and instructors in all departments numbered 496, and the students 3312 . In addition to the See also:regular work of the departments there are several lecture courses open to all students of the University . Among them are: the See also:Dodge Lectures on the Responsibilities of Citizenship (1900); the See also:Bromley Lectures on Journalism, Literature and Public Affairs (1900); the Lyman See also:Beecher Lectures on Preaching (1871); the Silliman Memorial Lectures (1884) on subjects connected with " the natural and moral See also:world "; the See also:Stanley See also:Woodward Lectures (1907) by distinguished foreigners; the Harvard Lectures (1905) by members of the faculty of Harvard University; the Sheffield Lectures on scientific subjects; and the Medical Alumni Lectures . The See also:principal publications with which the University is more or less closely associated are: The Yale See also:Review, a Quarterly See also:Journal for the Scientific Discussion of Economic, Political and Social Questions, edited by Professors in Political Science and History; the Yale Law Journal, edited by a board of students; the Yale Medical Journal, edited by members of the Medical Faculty with the assistance of a board of students; the Yale Alumni Weekly; and the Yale See also:News, a daily See also:paper managed by the students . The Yale Bicentennial Publications contain reprints of Research Papers from the See also:Kent Chemical Laboratory, Studies in Physiological Chemistry and Contributions to See also:Mineralogy and Petrography . Numerous other publications of the Yale University See also:Press are issued only with the approval of the University . In addition to several million dollars invested in lands and buildings the University possessed at the end of 1909 productive funds amounting to $10,561,830 (in 1886, $2,111,000) . The income from all See also:sources for the year 1908-9, exclusive of benefactions ($1,469,515), was $1,240,208 . Up to 1908 more than three-fourths of all the University buildings had been erected as private gifts; the See also:rest were built with College funds, or from legislative grants . Yale shares with its See also:fellow colleges founded in colonial days the advantages of old traditions and social See also:prestige . In particular it shared these with Harvard so long as New England retained its See also:literary and intellectual dominance over the rest of the country . But the spirit of the two institutions has always been very different . Harvard has on the whole been See also:radical and progressive; Yale conservative . Yale could not draw, like Harvard, on the leaders of the New England schools of letters and philosophy to fill her professorial chairs . Her " See also:comparative poverty, the strength of college feelings and traditions (President See also:Hadley) united with the lesser stimulus of her intellectual environment to delay her development . Harvard's transformation into a modern university was more spontaneous and rapid; Yale remained much longer under the dominance of collegiate traditions .
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