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This two-part bridge is best described by Rev. Timothy Dwight, president of Yale College, in his `` Travels In New-England And New-York '', published in New Haven in 1821.
) The theologically conservative future president of Yale, Timothy Dwight, opined that " the style was crude and vulgar, and the sentiments were coarser than the style.
The couple had five sons and one daughter: Abraham ( 1807 – 1873 ) a graduate of West Point and career military officer ; John ( 1810 – 1866 ), graduate of Yale and Attorney General of New York ; Martin, Jr. ( 1812 – 1855 ), secretary to his father and editor of his father's papers until a premature death from tuberculosis ; Winfield Scott ( born and died in 1814 ); and Smith Thompson ( 1817 – 1876 ), an editor and special assistant to his father while president.
He enrolled at Yale just shy of his 16th birthday, studying during his senior year with the learned Ezra Stiles, Yale's president.
He is Senior Adviser to the President of the United Nations Foundation, chair of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, and is past president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, past chairman of the United States Man and Biosphere Program, and past president of the Society for Conservation Biology.
The Reverend Ezra Stiles, president of the College from 1778 to 1795, brought with him his interest in the Hebrew language as a vehicle for studying ancient Biblical texts in their original language ( as was common in other schools ), requiring all freshmen to study Hebrew ( in contrast to Harvard, where only upperclassmen were required to study the language ) and is responsible for the Hebrew phrase אורים ותמים ( Urim and Thummim ) on the Yale seal.
Richard H. Brodhead, former dean of Yale College and now president of Duke University, stated: " We do give very significant attention to orientation to the community in our admissions, and there is a very strong tradition of volunteerism at Yale.
* June 26 – Thomas Clap, first president of Yale University ( d. 1767 )
* January 7 – Thomas Clap, first president of Yale University ( b. 1703 )
On April 15, 1997, Jared L. Cohon, former dean of Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, was elected president by Carnegie Mellon's Board of Trustees.
Meese served as president of the Yale Political Union, chairman of the Conservative Party, and chairman of the Yale Debating Association.
As head of Yale College, Thomas Clap was both the last to be called " rector " ( 1740 – 1745 ) and the first to be referred to as president ( 1745 – 1766 ).
Modern custom omits the use of the term " rector " and identifies Abraham Pierson as the first Yale president ( 1701 – 1707 ).
* A. Bartlett Giamatti ( 1938 – 1989 ) was the seventh commissioner of Major League Baseball and former president of Yale University.
Timothy Dwight, the Yale president who chronicled his travels, called the town "... one of the prettiest in New England.
Angelo Bartlett " Bart " Giamatti (; April 4, 1938 – September 1, 1989 ) was the president of Yale University and later the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
He became a professor of comparative literature at Yale University, an author, and master of Ezra Stiles College at Yale, a post to which he was appointed by his predecessor as Yale president, Kingman Brewster, Jr .. Giamatti taught briefly at Princeton but spent most of his academic life at Yale.

Yale and Arthur
In 1979, the Yale biologist Arthur Galston, who specialized in herbicide research, published a review of what was known at the time about the toxicity of TCDD.
Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.
President Arthur Hadley of Yale, A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, and Woodrow Wilson of Princeton worked to develop moderate changes to reduce injuries.
In 2001, Yale accepted a $ 1 million grant from his older brother, money manager Arthur Kramer, to establish the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies.
They included Simon Newcomb at Johns Hopkins, John Bates Clark at Columbia, James Laurence Laughlin at Chicago, Charles F Dunbar and Frank William Taussig at Harvard, Arthur T. Hadley and William Graham Sumner at Yale, and controlled the American university system in the East.
* Arthur Twining Hadley ( 1857 – 1930 )— Dean of Yale Graduate School when women were first admitted.
He enlisted Wolcott Gibbs of Harvard and Arthur Wright of Yale to design improved equipment.
Arthur A. Clarke: Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, Yale University Press, 1965 ISBN 0-300-09473-6
The experts were John Caronna ( chairman of neurology, Cornell ); Leo Dal Cortivo ( former president, U. S. Toxicology Association ); Ralph DeFronzo ( medicine, Yale ); Kurt Dubowski ( forensic pathology, University of Oklahoma ); Daniel Foster ( medicine, University of Texas ); Daniel Furst ( medicine, University of Iowa ); Harold Lebovitz ( director of clinical research, State University of New York ); Vincent Marks ( clinical biochemistry, Surrey, vice-president Royal College of Pathologists and president, Association of Clinical Biochemistry ); and Arthur Rubinstein ( medicine, University of Chicago ).
* Yale is mentioned in Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge.
Charles Arthur Moore, Jr. took a break between St Paul's School and Yale by joining Robert Peary's Arctic Expedition in the summer of 1897.
Arthur Goodhart was born in New York and educated at the Hotchkiss School, Yale University and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Brother " Dick " ( Arthur ) Watson had dropped out of Yale as a Major in Ordnance.
Robert Arthur Morton Stern, usually credited as Robert A. M. Stern, ( born May 23, 1939 ) is an American architect and Dean of the Yale University School of Architecture.
Arthur Twining Hadley ( April 23, 1856 – March 6, 1930 ) was an economist who served as President of Yale University from 1899 to 1921.
They became the parents of Arthur Twining Hadley, president of Yale University from 1899-1921.
GLT's artistic directors have included Arthur Lithgow, Lawrence Carra, Vincent Dowling, Gerald Freedman, James Bundy ( present Dean of the Yale School of Drama ) and Charles Fee, who engineered the company's production-sharing partnership with the Idaho Shakespeare Festival ).
Brownell Gage, Warren Seabury, Lawrence Thurston, and Arthur Williams, all graduates of Yale College in the 1890s, founded Yale-in-China, and brought the mission to Changsha between 1901 and 1905.
* 1896 – Arthur Wright produces first X-ray in the U. S. at Yale University
* 1927: This license was assigned to Dr. Arthur Wells Yale.
He moved in 1899 to The Standard as chief leader-writer and moved in 1900 to The Times, to act as co-editor with Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace and President Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale University on preparation of the eleven volumes forming the 10th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
During his time at the School of Drama, he also performed at the Yale Repertory Theatre, in the Yale cabaret with schoolmates Joe Grifasi and Meryl Streep, and studied film with Arthur Penn and Sidney Lumet at the Film School.

Yale and Twining
It has since been staged at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2004, at Yale Repertory Theatre, at Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, March – April 2008, at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, May 2008 ( with original live music by Toby Twining ), at ACT Theatre in Seattle, September – October 2008, in London at the Young Vic Theatre in May 2010., at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 2012, at the University of Victoria's Phoenix Theatre in 2012, at Ouachita Baptist University's Verser Theatre in 2012, and in Theatre Ink's 2010-2011 season.
Professor Alexander C. Twining of Yale University was hired to conduct a survey.

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