Yale University
an institution of higher learning in New Haven, Conn.; founded in Saybrook in October, 1701, as the Collegiate School of the colony founded in Saybrook in October, 1701, ministers. The classes were taught, however, at Killingworth, now Clinton, an adjoining town, till 1707. The institution was permanently settled in New Haven in 1716, and in 1718 its name was changed to Yale College in honor of Elihu Yale. The name Yale College applied at first only to the new building. It was given formally to the institution in its charter of 1745. The chair of Divinity was added in 1755, and another of Mathematics, Physics, and Astronomy in 1771, though this was not permanently filled till 1794.
Occasional grants were made to it by the legislature before the Revolution, and $30,000 was voted by the State in 1792.
Schools of Medicine (1812), Theology legislature before the Revolution, and $30,000 was voted by the State in 1792. university possesses also departments of Philosophy and Arts, the latter including besides the classical course of "Yale College" proper, the Sheffield a Scientific School (begun 1847, endowed 1868), post-graduate courses, and School of Fine Arts (1864). A great YALE UNIVERSITY part of the studies in the third and fourth years is elective. The University bridge Reference Library of the Divinity Library, the Law Library, the Sheffield Scientific School Library, the Trowbridge Reference Library of the Divinity School, the Lowell-Mason Library of Music, the Library of Foreign Missions and Art, the Medical School and American Oriental Society Libraries, consists of over 1,000,000 volumes and pamphlets.
The numerous buildings cover about nine acres in the heart of the city, the oldest dating from 1752. The Trumbull ga lery consists of historical portraits and works numbering 54 pictures. The Jarvis Gallery of Italian Art has 122 paintings, wood carvings of the 16th century comturies. The Alden collection of Belgian wood carvings of the 16th century comprises about 150 feet of wainscoting in Ghent and a collection of about 50 paintings. are nine In March, 1887, an act passed the Genauthorizing eral Assembly of the State aut the use of the title Yale University by the president and fellows of Yale College.
The president is the presiding officer of the Board of Trustees and of every board of instruction. He has no required duties of teaching. There schools, each under a separate faculty: the College, the Sheffield Scientific School, the Graduate School, the School of Medicine, the School of Religion, the School of Law, the School of Fine Arts, the School of Music, and the School of Forestry.
The Library, the Peabody Museum of are severally organized independently of Natural History, and the Observatory the special departments, and are despheres, to the instruction and advancesigned to contribute, in their appropriate ment of the whole institution.
In recent years the university has developed in all departments. Several new university laboratories, including the Osborn Memorial Laboratories and the Sloane Physics Laboratory, have been erected. The Memorial Quadrangle, the gift of Mrs. Stephen H. Harkness of New York City, provides rooms for ap- New York City, provides rooms for apsaid to be the most beautiful group of college buildings in the United States.
On March 19, 1919, the Yale Corporation adopted a new scheme of university organization, which, among other things, called for the establishment of several new administrative offices, including the provost and dean of students; instituted lege and the Sheffield Scientific School; new administrative offices, including the provost and dean of students; instituted centralized in a Board of Admissions the YALU matter of entrance requirements; and extended the course in the Sheffield Scientific School from three to four years. There were in the fall of 1920 3,324 students and 532 members of the faculty.
The endowment amounted to $24,048,738.
In addition, the university is the beneficiary under the will of the late John W. Sterling of approximately $20,000,000, to be used for memorial buildings and for the foundation of scholarships, fellowships, or lectureships, and the endowment of new professorships. The following is a list of the presidents since its foundation: Abraham Pierson (1701-1707); Samuel Andrew (1707-1714); Timothy Cutler (1719- 1722); Elisha Williams (1726-1739); Thomas Clap (1740-1766); Napthali Daggett (1766-1777); Ezra Stiles (1777- 1795); Timothy Dwight (1795-1817); Jeremiah Day (1817-1846); Theodore D.
Woolsey (1846-1871); Noah Porter (1871-1886); Timothy Dwight (1886- 1899); Arthur T. Hadley (1899-1921); James R. Angell (1921-).