Members of the Yale Precision Marching Band who act on the field are called " squids.

Both male and female college residents strip down to their underwear ( some brave seniors remove all their clothing during The Game ) to accompaniment by the Yale Precision Marching Band, which formerly played The Stripper or Sweet Child o ' Mine but now chooses different tunes from game to game.

It was subsequently under the control of the Yale Precision Marching Band which used it in the 2006 Princeton halftime show.

Magnificent Mugsy Rangoon, a Bulldog from Hamden, Connecticut, was picked by a five person panel for his gregarious personality, large size ( 69 pounds ), good health, and his ability to deal with the raucous Yale Precision Marching Band.

The Yale Precision Marching Band ( affectionately known as the YPMB, or more simply The Band, for short ) is the official marching band of Yale University.

In 1992, before the combined playing of the " Star-Spangled Banner ", the Harvard marching band attempted to " X-out " the Yale Precision Marching Band while the Yale band stood in its traditional Y formation ; however, the Yale band caught wind of this plan and, as the Harvard band marched onto the field, shifted its formation into a large H, thus making Harvard X itself out.

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He was also a distinguished orator and after-dinner speaker ; author: Orations and After Dinner Speeches ( 1890 ), Life and Later Speeches ( 1894 ), Orations, Addresses and Speeches ( eight volumes ) ( 1910 ), Speeches and Addresses on the threshold of Eighty ( 1912 ), Addresses and Literary Contributions on the Threshold of Eighty-two ( 1916 ), Speeches and Literary Contributions on the Threshold of Eighty-four ( 1918 ), My Memories of Eighty Years and Marching On ( 1922 ); Miscellaneous Speeches on the Threshold of Ninety-two ( 1925 ); contributed a " My Autobiography " in 1922, and an article to the 50th Anniversary Supplement of the Yale Daily News entitled " An Optimistic Survey " in 1928 ; member Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society of Colonial Wars, Connecticut Society of the Society of the Cincinnati, Holland Society, Huguenot Society, New England Society, France-America Society, New York Historical Society, St. Augustine ( Fla .) Historical Society, American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, National Horse Show, Lafayette Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, and St. Thomas ' ( Episcopal ) Church, New York ; made life member of Lawyers ' Club of New York in 1918 ; honorary member New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.

The drum major marched out by himself as the announcer gravely stated, " For the first time anywhere, the Yale University Invisible Marching band forms ...

(" At Yale, Wedding Band Takes On a New Meaning ", New York Times, October 10, 1992.

It was founded in 1829 by the Illinois Band, students from Yale University who traveled westward to found new colleges.

Band members refer to themselves as " The Members Of ", which is derived from their introduction at Yale events.

(" At Yale, Wedding Band Takes On a New Meaning ", New York Times, October 10, 1992.

Following his retirement, the Bexley High School Band is currently under the direction of Andrew Johnson with Assistant Director William Yale Manchester.

However much football has been over-emphasized, the public likes to measure its collegiate favorites by the scoreboard, so, while Yale need never give its record a thought again since outscoring its opponents 694 to 0 in the season of 1888, Dartmouth had to wait until its championship team of 1925 for national recognition.

According to the book Gender, Crime, and Punishment published by Yale University Press, " Under the Alford doctrine, a defendant does not admit guilt but admits that the state has sufficient evidence to find him or her guilty, should the case go to trial.

He has been invited to speak at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies at Yale University in 1979.

The Encyclopedia of New York City, ( Yale University Press and The New-York Historical Society, ( 1995 ) ISBN 0-300-05536-6 ), has entries, maps, illustrations, statistics and bibliographic references on almost all of the significant topics in this article, from the entire borough to individual neighborhoods, people, events and artistic works.

For more than a decade, Yale University neuropathologist Laura Manuelidis has been challenging this explanation for the disease.

Following the lead of Yale scholar John Boswell, it has been argued that a number of Early Christians entered into homosexual relationships, and that certain Biblical figures had homosexual relationships, despite Biblical injunctions against sexual relationships between members of the same sex.

The unnamed college attended by the main characters was later given the name " Walden College ", revealed to be in Connecticut ( the same state as Yale ), and depicted as devolving into a third-rate institution under the weight of grade inflation, slipping academic standards, and the end of tenure — issues that Trudeau has consistently revisited since the original characters graduated.

* Yale University has a program in the History of Science and Medicine.

He has also been educated at Morgan State University, The University of Iowa's Writers ' Workshop, and Yale Law School.

He has taught English at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Harvard University, and Yale University.

Within the United States he has conducted research at Yale, Baylor College of Medicine, and Harvard University.

She has also been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Yale University, Harvard University, Williams College, and Smith College.

United States political and finance industry leadership has recently been dominated by people associated with Harvard and Yale.

In another important example of the genre, a massive archive covering the oral history of American music has been compiled at the Yale School of Music.

John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ) wrote a textbook in logic or dialectic in Latin based on Ramus ' work, which has now been translated into English by Walter J. Ong and Charles J. Ermatinger in The Complete Prose Works of John Milton ( Yale University Press, 1982 ; 8: 206-407 ), with a lengthy introduction by Ong ( 144-205 ).

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

Building on the work of Yale political scientist Juan Linz, Paul C. Sondrol of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs has examined the characteristics of authoritarian and totalitarian dictators and organized them in a chart:

Yale University Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom ( no relation to Allan ) has also argued strongly in favor of the canon, and in general the canon remains as a represented idea in many institutions, though its implications continue to be debated.

Yale has produced many notable alumni, including five U. S. Presidents, 19 U. S. Supreme Court Justices, and several foreign heads of state.

Yale has a complicated relationship with its home city ; for example, thousands of students volunteer every year in a myriad of community organizations, but city officials, who decry Yale's exemption from local property taxes, have long pressed the university to do more to help.

Under President Levin, Yale has financially supported many of New Haven's efforts to reinvigorate the city.

Various sources note the spirit of campus activism that has existed at Yale since the 1960s, and the intellectual influence of Reverend William Sloane Coffin on many of the future candidates.

At Yale, Gibbs was also the mentor of Lee De Forest, who went on to invent to the triode amplifier and has been called the " father of radio.

Because housing assignments are made based on the preferences of the students themselves, diverse social atmospheres can be sustained in different living groups ; for example, according to the Yale Daily News Staff's The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, 2010, " The split between East Campus and West Campus is a significant characteristic of MIT.

Through the persuasion of Jeremiah Dummer, Yale, who had made a fortune through trade while living in India as a representative of the East India Company, donated nine bales of goods, which were sold for more than £ 560, a substantial sum at the time.

Also during the 1940s and 1950s, Wyoming millionaire William R. Coe made large contributions to the American studies programs at Yale University and at the University of Wyoming.

Other Yale alumni who made serious bids for the Presidency during this period include Hillary Rodham Clinton ( 2008 ), Howard Dean ( 2004 ), Gary Hart ( 1984 and 1988 ), Paul Tsongas ( 1992 ), Pat Robertson ( 1988 ) and Jerry Brown ( 1976, 1980, 1992 ).

Marsalis ' management had submitted a " revised version " of " Blood on the Fields " which was " premiered " at Yale University after the composer made seven small changes.

As President, Toledo made it a priority to try to recover ancient Incan artifacts from Yale University's Peabody Museum of Natural History.

George Bissell, a Yale University Chemistry professor, and Edwin L. Drake, a former railroad conductor, made the first successful use of a drilling rig on August 28, 1859 near Titusville, Pennsylvania.

He received a scholarship to Yale based on academic performance, but it has been suggested that Yale only made this offer in order to lure Rothko ’ s friend, Aaron Director, with a similar proposal.

A young Yale graduate of 19 when he made his first trip to New Connecticut ( Ohio ), Ellsworth went on to make several more trips to the west.

Historians John Boswell and Martin Duberman made Yale University a notable center of lesbian and gay studies in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Further shows have included taking part in the exhibition Eight Figurative Painters, held at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, USA, in 1981, alongside Michael Andrews, Francis Bacon, William Coldstream, Lucian Freud, Patrick George, Leon Kossoff and Euan Uglow ; and a retrospective exhibition at the Kunstverein, Hamburg, in 1986, comprising paintings and drawings made between 1977 and 1985 originally shown at the 42nd Venice Biennale also in 1986.

From 1965 – 70, Hersey was Master of Pierson College, one of twelve residential colleges at Yale University, where his outspoken activism and early opposition to the Vietnam War made him controversial with alumni, but admired by students.

He made it a high priority to professionalize the Forest Service ; to that end he initiated the Yale School of Forestry as a source of highly trained men.

The earliest mention of the term national security, however, was made in Yale University in 1790 wherein reference was made to its relation with domestic industries.

Before graduating from Yale ’ s Sheffield Scientific School in 1884, he showed a small collection he had made of Carboniferous fossils to George Jarvis Brush, who later introduced him to the paleontologist Othniel C. Marsh.

Harkness Tower, the Memorial Quadrangle that surrounds it, and the Harkness Memorial Chime were all part of a gift to Yale made by Anna M. Harkness in memory of her son, Charles William Harkness.

In 1741, two masters ' candidates at Yale were denied their degrees for their " disorderly and reckless endeavors to propagate " the Great Awakening, and the College made it an offence for a student to imply that the Rector, Trustees, or Tutors were " carnal or unconverted men " or " hypocrites ".

Yale was convinced that key holes in traditional locks made the locks susceptible to thieves who could use picks, gunpowder explosives, and heat to thwart the locks.

As described by Samuel Hammond, one of the bankers present at Yale ’ s demonstration, “ proved that the Hobbs lock is able to be picked and demonstrated it using a fake wooden key that he made .”

Its name is an echo of whiffenpoof, a nonsense word used as a cheer at Yale University made popular in The Whiffenpoof Song and The Whiffenpoofs.

He was a member of Yale Corporation 1888-1906 ; member of the Yale Alumni Association of New York at the time of its organization in 1868, its third president ( 1883 – 1892 ), and one of the incorporators of the Yale Club of New York City in 1897 ; a vice chairman of the $ 20, 000, 000 Yale Endowment Campaign ; made LL D. Yale 1887 ; elected an honorary member of Yale Class of 1889 in 1923 ; By the terms of his will, a bequest of $ 1, 000, 000 was left to Yale without restrictions as to its use.