Word: elihu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Closed College was formed in 1718 by a group of clam-diggers and oystermen from Mystic, Conn., who were alarmed at the irresponsible radicalism exhibited by the other colleges of the day. Chief among the earlier contributions to the infant institution was one of 654 pounds from Elihu Closed, an affluent London merchant, who little realized that his modest gift would result in the naming of the college in his honor...
...Elihu Yale, whose name the budding institution took in 1718, bought himself a fair degree of immortality with a gift appraised at a little over 562 English pounds. He thought of the little Connecticut school, no doubt, as young and promising--as indeed...
Both Dummer and Mather, the two men who persuaded Elihu Yale to make his gift, were Harvard graduates. Dummer, in fact, was one reprimanded by a classmate for boasting that "in a little time that nursery Yale would exceed Harvard." As for Mather, he was president of Harvard at the time he was soliciting so strenuously for Yale. He never did quite get into the swing of things at Cambridge, however, once denouncing Harvard Commencements as "very expensive and the occasion of much...
...indication of this has been the move to make parietal rules more lenient. The fact that Yale now allows women in rooms until 11 p.m. over the weekends may, however, not be surprising to those who remember the school's founder: Elihu Yale, born in Scollay Square
...Elihu Yale, founder of the New Haven school that bears his name, would be a surprised man if he could see his birthplace today. On the exact spot where he was born in 1648 now stand an amusement gallery and a Waldorf Cafeteria...