YAKIMA 



YALE UNIVERSITY 



few are true Yakimas. Originally the Yakimas 

 were active fishers, hunters and traders. 



YAKIMA, WASH., a city formerly known us 

 North Yakima (which see). 



YALE, ELIHU (1648-1721), an English phi- 

 lanthropist, one of the first patrons of Yale 

 University, was born near Boston, where his 

 parents, natives of Wales, were living tem- 

 porarily. At the age of three the boy returned 

 with his parents to London and was educated 

 there in private schools. He became an agent 

 for the East India Company of London, and 

 rose rapidly in this service until in 1687 he was 

 appointed governor of the important station at 

 Fort Saint George, at Madras. He returned to 

 London in 1692 with a large fortune acquired 

 through private trade, and was considered so 

 influential that in 1699 he was chosen governor 

 of the East India Company. 



At that time he began to give liberally to 

 educational and religious institutions, among 

 them the Collegiate School, founded in 1700 

 at Saybrook, Conn. Between 1715 and 1721 he 

 presented its trustees with money and property 

 amounting to 900, or nearly $4,500 in Ameri- 

 can money. In 1718 the school was removed to 

 New Haven, Conn., and his name applied to its 

 building, and in 1745 was formally given the 

 name of Yale College. Yale spent his last days 

 in North Wales, and was buried there in the 

 famous church at Wrexham. His gifts to the 

 American school were given more through a 

 desire to aid the efforts of New England clergy 

 in educating young men for the ministry than 

 through any hope that a great institution of 

 learning should ultimately result ; but his dona- 

 tion, small as it may seem, was the foundation 

 of a vast educational enterprise. 



YALE UNIVERSITY, one of the largest and 

 most influential universities in the United 

 States, located at New Haven, Conn. Though 

 it was established more than sixty years after 

 the founding of Harvard, the oldest American 

 college, the first New Haven settlers (1638) 

 hoped from the beginning of their settlement 

 to found a college in their town. It was only 

 because Massachusetts asked that their support 

 be given to the newly-founded Harvard Col- 

 lege that the New Haven colonists agreed to 

 wait for a more auspicious time. 



An examination of the roster of Yale gradu- 

 ates shows that this institution has taken its 

 part in shaping the history of the United States 

 by training leaders in many fields of activity. 

 Nathan Hale, the Revolutionary hero, was a 

 member of the class of 1773. Four signers of 



the Declaration of Independence and three 

 members of the Constitutional Convention 

 were Yale men. In theology Yale furnished 

 Jonathan Edwards and Timothy Dwight. The 

 temperance and antislavery leader, Lyman 

 Beecher, was a Yale graduate, and so, too, were 

 James Kent, the famous jurist; John C. Cal- 

 houn, Vice-President of the United States; Eli 

 Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin; Samuel 

 F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph; Noah 

 Webster, Donald G. Mitchell and Edmund 

 Clarence Stedman, of literary fame; and Wil- 

 liam H. Taft, twenty-seventh President of the 

 United States. 



Development of Yale. The movement which 

 resulted definitely in the founding of the insti- 

 tution dates from 1701, when ten of the princi- 

 pal clergymen of Connecticut Colony donated 

 a collection of books for a college. Later in 

 the year the colonial legislature passed an act 

 to permit the erection of a ''Collegiate School 

 wherein youth might be instructed in the arts 

 and sciences and be fitted for public employ- 

 ment both in church and civil state." An or- 

 ganization was then perfected, and the school 

 was established at Saybrook. In 1716 it was 

 permanently located in New Haven. The 

 name Yale College was adopted in 1718, in 

 honor of Elihu Yale, who had made generous 

 donations to the school. At commencement 

 time in that year a wooden building, on the 

 site of the present Osborn Hall, was formally 

 dedicated. 



In 1795 Timothy Dwight became president, 

 and the college entered upon a period of pros- 

 perity. There were then about a hundred stu- 

 dents and a faculty consisting of the president, 

 one professor and three tutors. President 

 Dwight enlarged the campus, established per- 

 manent professorships and planned the organi- 

 zation of professional schools under special 

 faculties, but he lived to see only the estab- 

 lishment of the school of medicine. Under 

 Jeremiah Day's administration, beginning in 

 1817, schools of law and theology were or- 

 ganized, and when President Day resigned, in 

 1846, the student enrolment had increased to 

 587. Under President Theodore D. Woolsey 

 (1846-1871) the college advanced in standards 

 of scholarship and in number of instructors, the 

 scientific school and the school of fine arts were 

 established, and plans were laid for graduate 

 work. The student enrolment increased to 809. 



Under President Noah Porter (1871-1886) the 

 elective system was adopted. The college ex- 

 perienced great prosperity during this adminis- 



