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.

Yale president Arthur Twining Hadley penned the inscription, which reads: " On Pemberton Hill, 255 Feet North of This Spot, Was Born on April Fifth 1649 Elihu Yale, Governor of Madras, Whose Permanent Memorial in His Native Land is the College That Bears His Name.

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.

* 1949 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.

Yale was swept up by the great intellectual movements of the period — the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment — thanks to the religious and scientific interests of presidents Thomas Clap and Ezra Stiles.

* February 19 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.

In the 1950s he began to receive more commissions from American universities for campus designs and individual buildings ; these include the Noyes dormitory at Vassar, as well as an ice rink, Ingalls Rink, and Ezra Stiles & Morse Colleges at Yale University.

* Ezra Stiles College, Morse College, and Ingalls Rink ( affectionately known as " The Whale ") at Yale University

Yale College diploma, Ezra Stiles, Class of 1746

Isaac Stiles in North Haven, Connecticut, Ezra Stiles graduated from Yale in 1746.

Stiles ' son Ezra Stiles, Esq., was educated first at Yale College, then at Harvard College, where he studied law, graduating in 1778.

Volume carries notation: " Given to the Library of Yale College by Ezra Stiles 1785.

Although fiercely opposed by religious moderates — most notably Yale president Ezra Stiles — he was elected to the presidency of Yale on Stiles's death in 1795.

Ezra Stiles, a president of Yale.

Ezra Stiles, later president of Yale University, was a strong influence in the young Nathanael's life.

Volume carries notation: " Given to the Library of Yale College by Ezra Stiles 1785.

* Ezra Stiles ( 1727 – 1795 )— President of Yale University.

Ezra Stiles at Yale was a prominent supporter of restoration of the Jews.

Letter from Ezra Stiles to George Washington announcing the awarding of an Honorary degree to Washington by President and Fellows of Yale College, 1781

Sarah told Ezra Stiles of Yale that she was born at East Haven and Dr. Blair Rudes confirmed that she was indeed Quinnipiac.

In 1764, John Brown joined his brothers Nicholas Brown and Moses Brown as well as William Ellery, the Baptist Reverend James Manning, the Baptist Reverend Isaac Backus, the Congregationalist Reverend and later Yale College president Ezra Stiles, former Chief Justice of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Stephen Hopkins and several others as an original fellow or trustee for the chartering of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ( the original name for Brown University ).

With arrival of British troops in Newport in late 1776, Stiles left Newport and became pastor of the Congregational Church at Portsmouth, New Hampshire from 1777 until 1778, when he became president of Yale until his death.

Letter from Stiles to George Washington announcing the awarding of an Honorary degree to Washington by President and Fellows of Yale College, 1781

As president of Yale, Stiles also became its first professor of Semitics, and required all students to study Hebrew ( as was also the case at Harvard ); his first commencement address in September, 1781 ( no ceremonies having been held during the American Revolutionary War ) was delivered in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic.

Yale's legacy from this interest of Stiles ' includes a portrait of Carigal by artist Samuel King, and the Hebrew words " Urim " and " Thummim " ( אורים ותמים ) on the Yale seal.

Yale ’ s best-known lock design, the cylinder pin-tumbler lock, utilized a key-operated lock concept first conceived in ancient Egypt over 4, 000 years ago.

CAS was conceived and developed by Shawn Bayern of Yale University Technology and Planning.

Bladderball was conceived by Yale student Philip Zeidman, owner of a six foot leather exercise ball, as a preliminary event before the Yale-Dartmouth game in 1954, according to Yale bladderball historian Sarah Hammond.