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Yale University

US university, founded in 1701 in New Haven, Connecticut. It was named after Elihu Yale (1648–1721), born in Boston, Massachusetts, one-time governor of Fort St George, Madras (now Chennai), India.

Yale is considered one of the preeminent US universities, attracting great numbers of foreign students as well as superior US high school graduates. Presidents George Bush and Gerald Ford, among many prominent Americans, attended Yale.



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