YALE UNIVERSITY

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YALE UNIVERSITY

Yale University is a clandestine Ivy League analysis university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the "Collegiate School" by a accumulation of Congregationalist ministers and accountant by the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest academy of academy apprenticeship in the United States. In 1718, the academy was renamed "Yale College" in acceptance of a allowance from Elihu Yale, a governor of the British East India Company. Established to alternation Connecticut ministers in canon and angelic languages, by 1777 the school's class began to absorb abstract and sciences. During the 19th aeon Yale gradually congenital alum and able instruction, application the aboriginal Ph.D. in the United States in 1861 and acclimation as a university in 1887.

Yale is organized into twelve basic schools: the aboriginal undergraduate college, the Alum Academy of Arts & Sciences, and ten able schools. While the university is absolute by the Yale Corporation, anniversary school's adroitness oversees its class and amount programs. In accession to a axial campus in city New Haven, the University owns able-bodied accessories in Western New Haven, including the Yale Bowl, a campus in West Haven, Connecticut, and backwoods and attributes preserves throughout New England. The University's assets cover an award admired at $23.9 billion as of September 27, 2014, the additional better of any educational academy in the world.
Yale Academy undergraduates chase a advanced arts class with authoritative majors and are organized into a arrangement of residential colleges. Almost all adroitness advise undergraduate courses, added than 2,000 of which are offered annually.The Yale University Library, confined all twelve schools, holds added than 15 actor volumes and is the third-largest bookish library in the United States. Besides bookish studies, acceptance attempt intercollegiately as the Yale Bulldogs in the NCAA Division I Ivy League.
Yale has accelerating abounding notable alumni, including 5 U.S. Presidents, 19 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 13 active billionaires, and abounding adopted active of state. In addition, Yale has accelerating hundreds of associates of Congress and abounding high-level U.S. diplomats, including above U.S. Secretary of Accompaniment Hillary Clinton and accepted Secretary of Accompaniment John Kerry. Fifty-two Nobel laureates accept been affiliated with the University as students, faculty, or staff, and 230 Rhodes Scholars accelerating from the University.
The university hosts a array of apprentice journals, magazines, and newspapers. Established in 1872, The Yale Record is the world's oldest amusement magazine. Newspapers cover the Yale Daily News, which was aboriginal appear in 1878, and the account Yale Herald, which was aboriginal appear in 1986. Dwight Hall, an independent, non-profit association account organization, oversees added than 2,000 Yale undergraduates alive on added than 70 association account initiatives in New Haven. The Yale Academy Council runs several agencies that baby-sit campus advanced activities and apprentice services. The Yale Dramatic Association and Bulldog Productions baby to the amphitheater and blur communities, respectively. In addition, the Yale Drama Coalition serves to alike amid and accommodate assets for the assorted Sudler Fund sponsored amphitheater productions which run anniversary weekend. WYBC Yale Radio[138] is the campus's radio station, endemic and operated by students. While acceptance acclimated to advertisement on AM & FM frequencies, they now accept an Internet-only stream.
The Yale Academy Council (YCC) serves as the campus's undergraduate apprentice government. All registered apprentice organizations are adapted and adjourned by a accessory alignment of the YCC, accepted as the Undergraduate Organizations Committee (UOC). The Alum and Able Apprentice Senate (GPSS) serves as Yale's alum and able apprentice government.
The Yale Political Union is brash by alumni political leaders such as John Kerry and George Pataki. The Yale International Relations Association functions as the awning alignment for the top-ranked Model UN team.
The campus includes several fraternities and sororities. The campus appearance at atomic 18 a cappella groups, the a lot of acclaimed of which is The Whiffenpoofs, who are abnormal a part of academy singing groups in getting fabricated up alone of chief men.
Yale's abstruse societies cover Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, Wolf's Head, Book and Snake, Elihu, Berzelius, St. Elmo, Manuscript, and Mace and Chain. The two oldest absolute account societies are the Aurelian (1910) and the Torch Account Society (1916).
The Elizabethan Club, a amusing club, has a associates of undergraduates, graduates, adroitness and agents with arcane or aesthetic interests. Associates is by invitation. Associates and their guests may access the "Lizzie's" bounds for chat and tea. The club owns aboriginal editions of a Shakespeare Folio, several Shakespeare Quartos, a aboriginal copy of Milton's Paradise Lost, a part of added important arcane texts.