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Yale University

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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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When Professor Marsh was out here hunting bones for the chapel of Yale University he found skeletons of horses no bigger than a fox, bedded in the rocks, and he said they were ancestors of my father.
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