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Newest feature is the long-awaited division of Yale college into residential quadrangles. Numbering eleven, these will be known not as "houses" (as at Harvard; but as "colleges." They will be given names celebrated in Yale history. Five of them?Berkeley, Saybrook, Branford, Pierson, Davenport???have already been projected, three in existent buildings, two in lavish Gothic piles now abuilding. Each college will have a "master" and about ten assistant or associate "fellows." Last year the first master was appointed: popular young Professor French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yale into Eleven | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

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