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  Yale College Programs of Study | Yale College Publications | Yale College
Electronic versions of Yale University publications are provided as a convenience to online users.
However, should there be any conflict of information, only the printed version of the Bulletin of Yale University is the official document.
Yale College, Yale College Publications, 246 Church Street, New Haven, CT 06510 USA.
www.yale.edu /yalecollege/publications/ycps   (70 words)

  
  Yale University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut.
Yale supports 35 varsity athletic teams that compete in the Ivy League Conference and the Eastern College Athletic Conference, and Yale is an NCAA Division I member.
Yale's Central Campus in downtown New Haven is 260 acres.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yale_University   (3839 words)

  
 Yale-Template
Yale’s roots can be traced back to the 1640s, when colonial clergymen led an effort to establish a college in New Haven to preserve the tradition of European liberal education in the New World.
Yale College was also transformed, beginning in the early 1930s, by the establishment of residential colleges.
Yale was also at the forefront of welcoming foreign students: the first student from Latin America arrived in the 1830s, and the first Chinese national to matriculate at any U.S. college or university arrived at Yale in 1850.
world.yale.edu /about   (1341 words)

  
 Jewish Law - Legal Briefs ("Hack, et al. v. The President and Fellows of Yale College, et al.")   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Yale is required by fundamental principles of equity and fair dealing to return to the plaintiffs the payments made under duress for wholly useless dormitory rooms.
Yale College has twelve "Residential Colleges." All of Yale's residence halls are co-educational, and all common areas, including bathrooms, are easily accessible to members of the opposite sex.
Yale's refusal to accommodate the bona fide religious convictions of the plaintiffs by granting to them the same exemption from the housing requirement that it grants to thousands of other Yale students breaches Yale's contractual obligations to plaintiffs, as well as other applicants and registered students.
www.jlaw.com /Briefs/complnt.html   (5239 words)

  
 Yale and Medicine, 1701-1901: Founding of the Medical Institution of Yale College
After graduation from Yale, Munson studied divinity with Ezra Stiles but his career as a minister was short for he became ill and moreover, his reputation as a wit and prankster did not jibe well with the character of a minister.
Eli Ives, a graduate of Yale College in 1799, studied medicine with his father and with Eneas Munson and attended medical lectures under Benjamin Rush, Caspar Wistar, and Benjamin Smith Barton at the University of Pennsylvania.
Jonathan Knight, a graduate of Yale College in 1808, studied medicine in New Haven and attended courses at the University of Pennsylvania.
info.med.yale.edu /library/exhibits/yalemed1/medinstyalecoll.html   (2218 words)

  
 Bambooweb: Yale University
The rivalry between Yale and fellow Ivy League school Harvard is long and storied; from academics to rowing to college football, their historic rivalry is similar to that of Oxford and Cambridge in the UK (see Oxbridge rivalry).
Yale traces its beginnings to "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School" passed by the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut and dated October 9, 1701, which was furthered by a meeting in Branford, Connecticut by a group of ten Congregationalist ministers who pooled their books to form the school's first library.
Yale supports thirty-five varsity athletic teams that compete in the Ivy League Conference and the Eastern College Athletic Conference, and Yale is an NCAA Division I member.
www.bambooweb.com /articles/y/a/Yale_University.html   (2108 words)

  
 Yale University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Most famously, these have come out of Yale's English and literature departments, starting with New Criticism.
Residential colleges are named for important figures or places in university history or notable alumni; they are deliberately not named for benefactors.
Yale students claim to have invented Frisbee, by tossing around empty pie tins from the Frisbie Pie Company.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yale   (3839 words)

  
 Charles Seymour on the Yale Residential College Plan
In the strict educational sense the College Plan leaves control of requirements for the Bachelor’s degree in the hands of the undergraduate Faculties; control of formal courses of study is left, as at present, in the hands of the Departments under the supervision of those Faculties.
The function of the new Colleges is not to replace the old Faculties but to supplement their teaching: not to provide the student with a new taskmaster but with an ally.
Yale’s College Plan starts with the advantage that it is not cut out of whole cloth but has evolved naturally, almost inevitably, from Yale’s historical past.
collegiateway.org /reading/seymour-1933   (1518 words)

  
 Yale University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Yale is one of the eight members of the Ivy League.
Yale has numerous athletic facilities, including the Payne Whitney Gymnasium, which is one of the largest and most elaborate indoor athletic complexes in the world.
Rumors that her thesis advisor was a suspect led to the end of his career at Yale, and the crime remains unsolved.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/Y/Yale-University.htm   (3148 words)

  
 YAM April 2002 - A Fresh Look at the College
Yale offers such opportunities (which are detailed for prospective students at www.yale.edu/yser), but the biomedical working group will see how they can be offered more systematically.
The advisers-faculty and staff members who are fellows of the residential colleges-volunteer their time, and many are not well informed about the College as a whole and do not have a great deal of time to devote to their advisees-sometimes as many as eight per adviser.
The fall Association of Yale Alumni assembly will be devoted to a discussion of the review, and alumni are encouraged to submit their thoughts to the Committee's Web site.
www.yalealumnimagazine.com /issues/02_04/academicreview.html   (2527 words)

  
 Yale University | Admissions Facts and Statistics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
A total of approximately 11,400 students attend Yale University's three component parts – Yale College (which is the undergraduate institution), the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and ten professional schools (the Schools of Art, Architecture, Drama, Engineering, Music, Forestry and Environmental Studies, Law, Management, Medicine, and Nursing, and the Divinity School).
Yale University has a long tradition of public service, with faculty, officers, and alumni who have served (and continue to serve) in government, education, business, and non-profit ventures.
The Colleges are staffed by deans, masters, associated faculty, and fellows, and offer a rich variety of seminars, lectures, and social events.
www.admissionsconsultants.com /college/yale.asp   (396 words)

  
 Yale University - College Closeup
In 1716 it moved to New Haven; it was renamed Yale College in 1718 to honor a generous benefactor, Elihu Yale.
Yale's academic goal is to provide students with a liberal education by encouraging curiosity, inquiry, and the development of expressive and analytical intellectual skills.
Yale offers numerous galleries and special collections, among which are the Yale Art Gallery (the oldest college-affiliated gallery in the country), the Peabody Museum of Natural History, and the Yale Center for British Art, which houses the largest collection of British art outside the United Kingdom.
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 Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) - 14-19 Learning - Yale College
Yale is a tertiary college in Wrexham with over 3,000 full-time students and 10,000 part-time students during any 12-month period.
In line with government recommendations, Yale is keen to ‘strengthen provision and progress through the vocational pathway’ through its choice of alternative provision.
Yale is taking a department-by-department approach to the withdrawal from GNVQ, retaining most GNVQs for as long as possible.
www.qca.org.uk /14-19/11-16-schools/index_1180.htm   (776 words)

  
 Yale College Note - 1794
Yale University was founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School in the home of Abraham Pierson, its first rector, in Killingworth, Connecticut.
In 1716 the school moved to New Haven and, with the generous gift by Elihu Yale of nine bales of goods, 417 books, and a portrait and arms of King George I, was renamed Yale College in 1718.
Yale embarked on a steady expansion, establishing the Medical Institution (1810), Divinity School (1822), Law School (1843), Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1847), the School of Fine Arts (1869), and School of Music (1894).
www.antiqnet.com /detail,yale-college-note,345955.html   (138 words)

  
 Elihu Yale - Yale College
The instigator of Elihu Yale's gift to Connecticut College was Jeremiah Dummer, the London agent for the Massachusetts Bay Colony and a Graduate of Harvard.
In September 1717 Connecticut College was commenced in New Haven.
On 11 June 1718, Elihu Yale sent two trunks of textiles to be sold on behalf of the college, a collection of 417 books, a portrait and the arms of King George I. The total worth being about £1162, the largest donation made to the college in its first 122 years.
www.wrecsam.com /yale6.html   (654 words)

  
 Yale and Medicine, 1701-1901: Medicine at Yale in the Eighteenth Century
Medicine at Yale, 1701-1901, was on display in the rotunda of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library from October 20, 2000 until the end of December.
Yale College, founded in 1701, began to produce doctors almost from the beginning.
The leading physicians of the state in the eighteenth century were mostly graduates of Yale College who then acquired practical training in medicine through an apprenticeship to a practitioner.
info.med.yale.edu /library/exhibits/yalemed1   (1370 words)

  
 Pierson College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Yale was founded by colonial clergy, such as Abraham Pierson and Timothy Woodbridge.
Abraham Pierson was appointed by Yale's original trustees as the first rector (or president) of Yale college, from 1701-1707.
He served concurrently as the minister of the Killingworth (now Clinton) Congregational church, where Yale college was based during his tenure.
www.yaleslavery.org /WhoYaleHonors/pierson.html   (72 words)

  
 OCE FAQ
The faculty of Yale College voted to implement for the Fall 2002 semester a Web-based application that will permit students to evaluate their courses on line.
If a course has a Yale College number, it is included in the population of courses to be evaluated on line.
Graduate School or professional school students who are enrolled in courses that have a Yale College number will be permitted to evaluate these courses on line, but they will not be prevented from viewing their course grades on line if they choose not to participate in the online evaluation process.
classes.yale.edu /help/itg/oce/faq.htm   (2950 words)

  
 Revival - Yale College
Under his administration the whole moral and religious atmosphere of the college was changed for the better.
He met the students on their own ground and in a series of frank discussions in the classrooms treated subjects such as "The Nature and Danger of Infidel Philosophy," "Is the Bible the Word of God?" He gave a notable series of lectures in which he grappled with the principles of deism and materialism.
Soon he had the admiration of the students and in 1802 a revival began in which a third of the student body professed conversion, to be followed at frequent intervals by other awakenings.
www.forerunner.com /forerunner/X0610_Revival__Yale.html   (351 words)

  
 Welcome to Yale College, Office of Undergraduate Admissions
Learn more about Yale's partnership with QuestBridge, a non-profit group that puts high achieving, low income students in touch with educational opportunities across the nation.
A visit to campus is the most effective way for prospective students and their families to get a feel for Yale's community.
Yale College Web Services, 246 Church Street, New Haven, CT 06510 USA.
www.yale.edu /admit   (137 words)

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