Elihu Yale, whose name the budding institution took in 1718, bought himself a fair degree of immortality with a gift appraised at a little over 562 English pounds. He thought of the little Connecticut school, no doubt, as young and promising--as indeed it was.
It remains young today... --from a N.Y. Times editorial Oct. 19, 1951
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