YALE UNIVERSITY

YALE UNIVERSITY, a well-equipped university at New Haven, Connecticut, U.S., founded in 1701, which derives its name from Elihu
Yale, a Boston man, and which was given to it in recognition of his benefactions; it occupies a square in the heart of the city, has a large number of professors, besides tutors and lecturers, and students, and a library of 200,000 volumes; the faculties include arts, medicine, law, theology, fine arts, and music.