Yale University

The Université Yale (and not of Yale) is one of the establishments of the most prestigious higher education of the the United States of America and the world. Member of the Ivy League, just as his large rival Harvard, it is in particular famous for his Faculty of Law. It holds its name of its benefactor Elihu Yale.

History

It was founded in 1701, as Collegiate School by Abraham Pierson in Killingworth, Connecticut. In 1716, the institution moved with New Haven and was famous Yale College in 1718 in the honor of a benefactor of the name of Elihu Yale.

Its bonds with the congregationnalism guaranteed the puritanism of the teaching and the operating process of Yale.

The students and professors were to pronounce a profession of faith at their entry in the establishment, and could be returned if their sincerity is seriously questioned. To this puritanism was added an exaggerated elitism: the students was classified, as of their arrival with Yale, not according to their capacities, but of the social position their parents. At the head of class, wire or grandson of governors, vice-governors. Then the family members come from judges of the Supreme court. With low in the classification, one finds wire of pastors and former students.

In back of the pack, wire of farmers, merchants and craftsmen. This classification decided place allotted to each pupil in the classrooms, the vault and the canteen.

This classification of entry depended on the social status of the family of the pupil, current thing in much of universities at the XVIIIe century, moreover it did not evolve/move with the schooling. Thus Yale became the ideal-typical example of an institution reproducing the elites and their internal hierarchy. The downgrading was in general caused by a disciplinary failure, and sanctioned the fact that the pupil thus sullied the honor with his family.

List presidents of the Yale University

Benefactors

Elihu Yale
Edward S. Harkness
William Harkness
Paul Melon
John William Sterling
Payne Whitney
Edwin, Frederick, and Walter Beinecke
William K. Lanman

Today

Nowadays, Yale has a budget of more than 18 billion dollars US, which makes of Yale the second richer university of the world behind Harvard. It also has several libraries which gather on the whole more than 11 million books.

The Yale University gathers three courses:

Yale College
Graduate School off Arts and Science
10 vocational schools:

Architecture: School off Architecture (created in 1972), pupils: Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, teachers: Zaha Hadid, Cesar Pelli
Dramatic art: School off Drama (1955),
Beautiful arts: the School off Fine Arts (1869),
Trade (MBA): School off Management (1974),
Right: Law School (1843),
Environment: School off Forestry & Environmental Studies (1900),
Nurse: School off Nursing (1923),
Medicine: Medical Institution (1810),
Music: School off Music (1894),
Theology: Divinity School (1822).

On the whole, Yale accommodates 11.250 students roughly.

The university is also known for its famous secret society of students of the Skull and Bones. In September 2007, the department of archeology of Yale decides to restore more than 350 archaeological parts in Peru. The prestigious American university finances a great road show as well as the construction of a museum in the town of Cuzco.

Libraries

The library of the Yale university belongs to most important world, with nearly 11 million volumes. Its patrimonial section, the Bibliothèque Beinecke of rare and handwritten books has collections of an exceptional richness, including one Bible of Gutenberg.

Famous students with Yale

The Yale university counts among its former students (called Yalies) of very many personalities, in particular the last three presidents of the United States: George Walker Bush, Bill Clinton and George Bush (father) as well as the democratic candidate with the elections of 2004: John Kerry. All the three, except for Bill Clinton, are former members of the Skull and Bones.

William Howard Taft, President of the United States (1909-1913)
Prescott Bush, Senator of the Connecticut (1953-1963)
Gerald Ford (J.D.), President of the United States (1974-1977)
George H.W. Bush (B.A. 1948), President of the United States (1989-1993)
Bill Clinton (J.D.), President of the United States (1993-2001)
George W. Bush (B.A. 1968), President of the United States (2001-present)
John Kerry (B.A. 1966), Senator of the Massachusetts (1985-present)
Hillary Clinton (J.D. 1973), Sénatrice of the state of New York (2001-present)
Jonathan Littell, born in 1967, Price Goncourt 2006, Grand Prix of the novel of the French Academy 2006
Jodie Foster, of its true name Alicia Christian Foster, actress, director and producing American, born on November 19th, 1962 in Los Angeles (California, the United States)
Christopher Higgins, hockey player having already played for Yale
Claire Danes, actress

Sports

In the field Sport yew, the Yale Bulldogs defend the colors of the Yale University. The school mascot is " Handsome Dan" , the bulldog of Yale famous for the song of combat of Yale which contains the refrain, " Bulldog, bulldog, bow wow wow." The stage Yale Bowl, built in 1913, is the greatest American football stadium of all the university of Ivy League.

Life of the students

Yale has a system of 12 residential universities set up in 1933 by a granting of the graduate of the Université Edward S. Harkness which admired the residential system of the universities of Oxford and of Cambridge. Each residence has a structure of support carefully built for students, including a senior, the Master, the teaching body, and Comrades resident. The residences are:

1. Berkeley College

2. Branford College

3. Calhoun College

4. Davenport College

5. Ezra Stiles College

6. Jonathan Edwards College

7. Morse College

8. Pierson College

9. Saybrook College

10. Silliman College

11. Timothy Dwight College

12. Trumbull College

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