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John Trumbull
John Trumbull 1750-1831, American poet, b. Westbury (now Watertown), Conn. He passed the entrance examinations to Yale when he was seven, but did not enter until he was thirteen. While tutoring at Yale he wrote The Progress of Dulness (1772-73), a satire on educational follies. In 1773 he... Read more |
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Simeon Eben Baldwin
Simeon Eben Baldwin 1840-1927, American jurist and politician, b. New Haven, Conn., grad. Yale, 1861. He taught at Yale from 1869 to 1919, serving as a professor of law after 1872. His teaching and financial aid helped to increase the prestige and quality of the law school. He was appointed (1893)... Read more |
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James Gamble Rogers
James Gamble Rogers 1867-1947, American architect, b. Kentucky. He designed many buildings for Yale, his alma mater. Among them are the Sterling Memorial Library, the Sterling School of Graduate Studies, Pierson College, and the Harkness Memorial Quadrangle. For 10 years he was architectural... Read more |
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Cornel West
Cornel West 1953family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">– Scholar,... Read more |
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Paul Marvin Rudolph
Paul Marvin Rudolph 1918-97, American modernist architect, b. Elkton, Ky. Rudolph taught at several universities and served as chair of the Yale Univ. architecture department from 1958-65. He was one of the most influential American architects of the mid-20th cent., creating buildings that were... Read more |
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Henry Putzel Jr
PUTZEL, HENRY, JR. Henry Putzel Jr. served as the reporter of decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1964 to 1979. Before becoming reporter, Putzel practiced law and served in a variety of important positions in the federal government. As an attorney with the justice department's civil rights... Read more |
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Walter Chauncey Camp
Walter Chauncey Camp 1859-1925, American athlete, football coach, administrator, b. New Britain, Conn. In his three years as captain at Yale Univ. in the 1880s, Camp shaped the rules that transformed rugby football into American football, including playing with 11 men, using a line of scrimmage, a... Read more |
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Ming Cho Lee
Ming Cho Lee Called the "dean" of American scene design, Ming Cho Lee (born 1930) shaped the face and future of design in professional theater and opera in America beginning in the late 1960s through his work on Broadway, the New York Shakespeare Festival, and the Metropolitan Opera and by... Read more |
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Robert Maynard Hutchins
Robert Maynard Hutchins 1899-1977, American educator, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., studied at Oberlin College, grad. Yale, 1921, taught in the Yale law school (1925-27), and served as dean (1927-29). He became president of the Univ. of Chicago in 1929 at the age of 30 and held that position until 1945; he... Read more |
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