History of Yale University

During my trip to New York in 2006, I visited Yale University in New Haven. Below, together with a few of my pictures, find the history of the university for your amusement.

"Yale’s roots can be traced back to the 1640s, when colonial clergymen led an effort to establish a college in New Haven to preserve the tradition of European liberal education in the New World. This vision was fulfilled in 1701, when the charter was granted for a school wherein youth may be instructed in the Arts and Sciences and through the blessing of Almighty God may be fitted for Publick employment both in Church and Civil State. In 1718 the school was renamed Yale College in gratitude to the Welsh merchant Elihu Yale, who had donated the proceeds from the sale of nine bales of goods together with 417 books and a portrait of King George I." (http://www.yale.edu/about/history.html)

"Yale College survived the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) intact and, by the end of its first hundred years, had grown rapidly. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries brought the establishment of the graduate and professional schools that would make Yale a true university. The Yale School of Medicine was chartered in 1810, followed by the Divinity School in 1822, the Law School in 1824, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1847 (which, in 1861, awarded the first Ph.D. in the United States), followed by the schools of Art in 1869, Music in 1894, Forestry & Environmental Studies in 1900, Nursing in 1923, Drama in 1955, Architecture in 1972, and Management in 1974." (http://www.yale.edu/about/history.html)

(Fotography: Daphne Rosas, 2006)

IRON AND THE BRIDGES OF NEW YORK

The bridges of New York are just beautiful, a vivid representation of the growth of iron as a building material ....and while I show you my pictures taken during my trip to New York in 2006 of several bridges found along the Hudson River, I'll give a little history to nourish your intellect...just a tiny bit not to bore you. What the hell, right! I'll give you IRON, the birth of steel reinforcement, of huge spans and of incredible buildings made glass and steel.

"With iron, an artificial building material appeared for the first time in history of architecture. It went through development whose tempo accelerated during the course of the century. This received its decesive impulse when it turned out that the locomotive, with which experiments had been made since the end of the twenties, could only be utilized on iron rails. The rail was the first unit of construction, the forerunner fo the girder. Iron was avoided for dwelling-houses, and made use of for arcades, exhibition halls, railway stations, buildings which served transitory purposes. Simultaneously the architectonic areas in which glass was employed were extended. But the social conditions for its increased use only came into being a hundred years later. In Scheerbart's 'Glasarchitektur' (1914) it still appeared in the context of a Utopia"

(Benjamin,Walter. Paris:Capital of The 19th Century. 1030)

Bridge along the Hudson River

Aerial View of New York

(Note: The famous Brooklyn Bridge was completed in 1883)

(Photos: Daphne Rosas)