Word: saybrook
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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When Yale College first moved to New Haven in 1716 from Saybrook, the Students occupied one of the galleries of the First Church at Sunday morning service while week day prayers were held in one of the college buildings. In 1757 however a petition providing for a separate College church was addressed to the college authorities. This movement resulted in the erection in 1763 of Atheneum. The regular religious services of the College were held here till 1824, when a larger building was necessary owing to the increased number of students In that year the building now known...
Yale University started in Saybrook, Conn. in 1700. It did not move to New Haven till...