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Last Saturday Yale University celebrated the 200th anniversary of the removal of that institution from Saybrook to New Haven. On October 17, 1716, the corporations voted to remove the college permanently, owing to the business and scholastic superiority of the larger town. On October 21, 1916, 8,000 persons participated in the largest pageant in the world--the "Pageant of the Town and Gown," symbolizing the bond of friendship between one of America's foremost educational institutions and its "home town...
Yale is planning an elaborate celebration for the 200th anniversary of the removal of Yale College from Saybrook, Conn., to New Haven, and of the 50th anniversary of the Yale School of Fine Arts next fall. A feature of the anniversary on Oct. 21 will be a pageant in the Yale Bowl in which 4000 persons will participate. The spectacle will be in charge of F. H. Markoe, of London, a graduate of Yale, who helped plan the last coronation pageant in London and who organized the recent South African pageant...
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...