Yale Sentence Examples

He at first taught mathematics at Yale; but in 1895 was made assistant professor of political economy, and in 1898 professor.

William Livingston graduated at Yale College in 1741, studied law in the city of New York, and was admitted to the bar in 1748.

He was editor of the Yale Review, 1896-1910.

His father, Alphonso Taft (1810-1891), born in Townshend, Vermont, graduated at Yale College in 1833, became a tutor there, studied law at the Yale Law School, was admitted to the Connecticut bar in 1838, removed to Cincinnati in 1839, and became one of the most influential citizens of Ohio.

He graduated at Yale in 1758 and in 1761 was admitted to the bar, but instead of practising became a merchant at Wethersfield, Conn.

He graduated at Yale in 1767, studied theology under the Rev. John Smalley (1734-1820) at Berlin, Connecticut, and was licensed to preach in 1769.

Another son, John (1810-1866), graduated at Yale in 1828, was admitted to the bar at Albany in 1830 and was attorney-general of New York in 1845-1846.

His half-brother, Lewis Morris (1726-1798), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was educated at Yale, served in the Continental Congress from 1775 until early in 1777, and went on a mission to the western frontier in 1775 to win over the Indians from the British to the American side.

Among the prominent men who have lived in Fairfield are Roger Sherman, the first President Dwight of Yale (who described Fairfield in his Travels and in his poem Greenfield Hill), Chancellor James Kent, and Joseph Earle Sheffield.

In 1907 he delivered the Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching at Yale University, published as Positive Preaching and Modern Mind.

He graduated at Yale College in 1807, studied theology under Timothy Dwight, anfl in 1812 became pastor of the First Church of New Haven.

From 1822 until his death in New Haven on the 10th of March 1858 he was Dwight professor of didactic theology at Yale.

In the Yale Divinity School his influence was powerful, and in 1833 one of his foremost opponents, Bennet Tyler (1783-1858), founded in East Windsor a Theological Institute to offset Taylor's teaching at Yale.

The formation during recent years of such lectureships as the "Lyman Beecher" course at Yale University has resulted in increased attention being given to homiletics, and the published volumes of this series are the best contribution to the subject.

William Howard Taft attended the public schools of Cincinnati, graduated at the Woodward High School of that city in 1874, and in the autumn entered Yale College, where he took high rank as a student and was prominent in athletics and in the social life of the institution.

A movement to elect Mr Taft president of Yale University gained some strength in 1898-99, but was promptly checked by him, on the ground that the head of a great university should be primarily an educationalist.

Mr Taft delivered the Dodge lectures at Yale University in 1906 on the Responsibilities of Citizenship, published as Four Aspects of Civic Duty (1906).

Entering Yale College in 1854 he graduated in 1858, and continuing his studies there was appointed tutor in 1863.

Returning to New Haven in 1869, he was appointed professor of mathematical physics in Yale College in 1871, and held that position till his death, which occurred at New Haven on the 28th of April 1903.

At New Haven also are published several weekly English, German and Italian papers, and a number of periodicals, including the American Journal of Science (1818), the Yale Law Journal (1890) and the Yale Review (1892), a quarterly.

One of the most important events in the history of New Haven was the removal hither in October 1716 from Saybrook of the Collegiate School of Connecticut, which developed into Yale University.

He studied at Phillips Andover Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and entered Yale, but left in his junior year (1857) to accept a position as a teacher of shorthand in the St Louis, Missouri, public schools.

In America public laboratory instruction was first instituted at Yale College during the professorship of Benjamin Silliman.

At the age of fourteen he entered Yale College, where he graduated in 1810 and where under the instruction of Jeremiah Day and Benjamin Silliman he received the first impulse towards electrical studies.

He graduated at Western Reserve College in 1864 and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1869; preached in Edinburg, Ohio, in 1869-1871, and in the Spring Street Congregational Church of Milwaukee in 5875-5879; and was professor of philosophy at Bowdoin College in 58 791881, and Clark professor of metaphysics and moral philosophy at Yale from 1881 till 5905, when he took charge of the graduate department of philosophy and psychology; he became professor emeritus in 1905.

He was much influenced by Lotze, whose Outlines of Philosophy he translated (6 vols., 1877), and was one of the first to introduce (1879) the study of experi mental psychology into America, the Yale psychological laboratory being founded by him.

He studied at Yale and Princeton, graduating from the latter in 1766, studied theology for a year, then law, and began to practise at Hartford in 1771.

The Yale Literary Magazine dated from 1836.

He was a descendant of one of the founders of the New Haven colony, worked as a boy in an uncle's blacksmith shop and on his farm, and in 1797 graduated from Yale, having studied theology under Timothy Dwight.

His son, Edward Beecher (1803-1895), was born at East Hampton, Long Island, on the 27th of August 1803, graduated at Yale in 1822, studied theology at Andover, and in 1826 became pastor of the Park Street church in Boston.

Still more recently the Repsolds have completed a new heliometer for Yale College, New Haven, United States.

To remedy drawback (2) Repsolds provided for the Yale heliometer an additional handle for motion in position angle, intermediate in velocity between the original quick and slow motions.

In 1834 he entered Yale University, but soon withdrew on account of ill health, and later studied in the University of the City of New York.

He had been made a Master of Arts at Harvard and at Yale in 1753, and at the college of William and Mary in 1756; and in 1762 he received the degree of D.C.L.

The principal manufactures are builders' hardware, locks and keys (the works of the Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company are here), woollen goods, dye stuffs, &c. The township of Stamford, known until 1642 by the Indian name of Rippowam, was settled in 1641 by twenty-nine persons who for religious reasons seceded from the Wethersfield church and joined the colony of New Haven.

As early as 1636 they founded Harvard College, and in 1701 Yale College was established.

In 1822 a special theological department was organized at Yale.

He graduated at Yale in 1863, studied law at Harvard, and practised with success in New York City.

At its May session in 1742 the General Court of Massachusetts forbade itinerant preaching save with full consent from the resident pastor; in May 1743 the annual ministerial convention, by a small plurality, declared against "several errors in doctrine and disorders in practice which have of late obtained in various parts of the land," against lay preachers and disorderly revival meetings; in the same year Charles Chauncy, who disapproved of the revival, published Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New England; and in 1744-1745 Whitefield, upon his second tour in New England, found that the faculties of Harvard and Yale had officially "testified" and "declared" against him and that most pulpits were closed to him.

In 1896 he was Lyman Beecher lecturer at Yale University, and in 1900 he was moderator of the synod of the English Presbyterian church.

In America there are at Yale University a modern copy of the same recension, taken from the same original as the Cairo copy, and a MS. of Persian origin, dated 1657, presenting a text identical with the Vienna codex.

Above Yale, in the drier part of the Fraser valley, the absence of rain results in the same character of flora, while in the rainy districts of the lower Fraser the vegetation is so luxuriant that it resembles that of the tropics.

Although Governor Brown represented the poorer class of white citizens he had taken a course in law at Yale College, had practised law, and at the time of his election was judge of a superior court; although he had never held slaves he believed that the abolition of slavery would soon result in the ruin of the South, and he was a man of strong convictions.

He was once more a member of the Connecticut Assembly in 1764-1766, was one of the governor's assistants in 1766-1785, a judge of the Connecticut superior court in 1766-1789, treasurer of Yale College in 1765-1776, a delegate to the Continental Congress in1774-1781and again in 1783-1784, a member of the Connecticut Committee of Safety in1777-1779and in 1782, mayor of New Haven in 1784-1793, a delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention of 1787 and to the Connecticut Ratification Convention of the same year, and a member of the Federal House of Representatives in 1789-1791 and of the United States Senate in 1791-1793.

In 1877 he published a course of lectures upon preaching, which he had delivered at the theological school of Yale University, and which are an expression of his own experience.

The son graduated at Yale in 1748; studied theology with his father; studied medicine at Edinburgh in 1752-1753; was ordained deacon by the bishop of Lincoln and priest by the bishop of Carlisle in 1753; was missionary in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1754-1757, and was rector in Jamaica, New York, in 1757-1766; and of St.

After graduating at Yale in 1839, he taught for a time at Greenfield, Mass., and also edited The Greenfield Gazette.

In 1904 it was stated that the system was gaining favour in the east,' and that it had been adopted more or less by all the eastern colleges and universities with the exception of Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia.

Illinois College (Presbyterian), founded in 1829 through the efforts of the Rev. John Millot Ellis (1793-1855), a missionary of the American Home Missionary Society and of the so-called Yale Band (seven Yale graduates devoted to higher education in the Middle West), is one of the oldest colleges in the Central States of the United States.

John Jay's son, William Jay (1789-1858), was born in New York City on the 16th of June 1789, graduated from Yale in 1807, and soon afterwards assumed the management of his father's large estate in Westchester county, N.Y.

The stars chosen were those with centennial proper motions greater than 40", observable at Yale, and not hitherto attacked.

After 1818 his parents lived in Charleston, South Carolina, and he went to Yale in 1825 for his education, but left without taking a degree, and entered an attorney's office in New Orleans.

In 1802 Calhoun entered the junior class in Yale College, and graduated with distinction in 1804.

He graduated at Yale in 1856, entered politics as a Whig - his father had been a Democrat - was admitted to the bar in 1858, was a member of the New York Assembly in 1861-1862, and was secretary of state of New York state in 1864-1865.

He worked with might and main for the continuation of the old theocracy, but before he died it had given way before an increasing Liberalism - even Yale was infected with the Episcopalianism that he hated.

He graduated at Yale in 1815, and in 1819 began to practise law at Dover, Delaware, 'where for a time he was associated with his cousin, Thomas Clayton (1778-1854), subsequently a United States senator and chief-justice of the state.

The Liberal party, which now came into control in the college repeatedly disappointed the hopes of Cotton Mather that he might be chosen president, and by its ecclesiastical laxness and its broader views of Church polity forced the Mathers to turn from Harvard to Yale as a truer school of the prophets.

It was given (with Bromfield and Yale, or Idl) by Edward I.

He graduated at Yale in 1827, was associate editor of the New York Journal of Commerce in 1828-1829, and in 1829 became a tutor at Yale.

Here he at first took up the study of law, but in 1831 he entered the theological department of Yale College, and in 1833 was ordained pastor of the North Congregational church in Hartford, Conn., where he remained until 1859, when on account of long-continued ill-health he resigned his pastorate.

In1722-1723he was for eight months stated supply of a small Presbyterian church in New York city, which invited him to remain, but he declined the call, spent two months in study at home, and then in1724-1726was one of the two tutors at Yale, earning for himself the name of a " pillar tutor " by his steadfast loyalty to the college and its orthodox teaching at the time when Yale's rector (Cutler) and one of her tutors had gone over to the Episcopal Church.

In the same year he married Sarah Pierrepont, then aged seventeen, daughter of James Pierrepont (1659-1714), a founder of Yale, and through her mother great-granddaughter of Thomas Hooker.

Park, the entire collection of Edwards's manuscripts loaned to him by Tryon Edwards was transferred to Yale University.

He graduated at Yale in 1746; studied there for the three years following; was licensed to preach in 1749 and was a tutor at Yale in 1749-1755.

In 1778 he became president of Yale College and professor of ecclesiastical history there, having insisted that no theological statement be required of him except assent to the Saybrook platform of 1708; in 1780--1782 he was professor of divinity, and he lectured besides on astronomy and philosophy.

His wise administration as president made possible the speedy recovery of Yale College after the War of Independence, and his intellectual and theological breadth helped to secularize and strengthen the college.

He experimented successfully with the electrical apparatus presented to Yale by Benjamin Franklin, whose intimate friend he became.

He graduated at Yale in 1837, was admitted to the bar in New York in 1841, and soon took high rank in his profession.

He studied in1849-1852at Yale, from which he received' the honorary degree of A.M.

Reared in the wild country round Otsego Lake, N.Y., on the yet unsettled estates of his father, a judge and member of Congress, he was sent to school at Albany and at New Haven, and entered Yale College in his fourteenth year, remaining for some time the youngest student on the rolls.

He studied theology at Union Theological Seminary, at the Yale Divinity School, and at Andover, and was licensed to preach in 1840 by the Third Presbytery of Philadelphia.

On the Hudson here is the course for the intercollegiate boat-races in which the American college crews (save those of Yale and Harvard, which row on the Thames at New London) have rowed annually, beginning in 1895, except in 1896, when the race was rowed at Saratoga.

This chair he exchanged for that of mathematics and physics at Yale in 1825; in 1836, when this professorship was divided, he retained that of astronomy and natural philosophy.

Supplementing the educative influence of the schools are the public libraries (161 in number in 1907); the state appropriates $200 to establish, and $100 per annum to maintain, a public library (provided the town in which the library is to be established contributes an equal amount), and the Public Library Committee has for its duty the study of library problems. Higher education is provided by Yale University; by Trinity College, at Hartford (nonsectarian), founded in 1823; by Wesleyan University, at Middletown, the oldest college of the Methodist Church in the United States, founded in 1831; by the Hartford Theological Seminary (1834); by the Connecticut Agricultural College, at Storrs (founded 1881), which has a two years' course of preparation for rural teachers and has an experiment station; by the Connecticut Experiment Station at New Haven, which was established in 1875 at Middletown and was the first in the United States; and by normal schools at New Britain (established 1881), Willimantic (1890), New Haven (1894) and Danbury (1903).

He was also given the degrees of doctor of divinity of Edinburgh and Yale, and doctor of laws of Aberdeen.

He delivered the Muir lectures at Edinburgh University (1878-1882), the Gifford lectures at Aberdeen (1892-1894), the Lyman Beecher lectures at Yale (1891-1892), and the Haskell lectures in India (1898-1899).

Winston, the son of a Connecticut congressman, admitted modestly after some prod­ding he was educated at Yale on a sports scholarship and had played both baseball and football for four years.

Mention should also be made of the wooden columns that divide the chancel from the Yale Chapel.

A rim latch (Yale) lock will not suffice on its own.

He has taught at Yale and provides training courses in cutting-edge development macroeconomics tools for several central banks.

She is the former provost of Yale, part of the US Ivy League market-based system.

He was a wrestler and gridiron football quarterback at high school, and enrolled at Yale to study medicine before transferring to art.

He graduated from Yale in 1735, studied theology for a time under Jonathan Edwards, was licensed to preach when scarcely eighteen years old, and from 1740 until his death, on the 6th of March 1790, was pastor of the Congregational church at Bethlehem, Connecticut.

The hoax was finally exposed by Professor Othniel C. Marsh of Yale; and George Hall of Binghamton, N.Y., confessed to the fraud, his object having been to discredit belief in the "giants" of Genesis vi.

Graduating at the top of her class at Yale Law School was a formidable accomplishment for Anna.

A few of the participating higher institutions include Yale, Southern Illinois, University of Chicago, Virginia Tech, Oklahoma State and Cornell.

Yale alums Stephen Kahn and Chris Edgar began talking about their ideas for selling clothing for teens in 1993, and the first Delia's mail-order catalog was available the next year.

In 1989, he graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in political science.

He attended Yale University and even worked for the CIA for a short time before diving into television journalism.

LaBeouf was accepted to Yale University in 2003, but decided to further pursue his acting career rather than majoring in psychology.

After attending the prestigious Collegiate School for Boys in New York (he was class valedictorian), he graduated from Princeton University and later from Yale University with bachelor and master's degrees in English Literature.

While in college he played both basketball and baseball.He began acting while attending Yale, performing in several college plays.

While the movie was not a hit, David Duchovny did get noticed and soon dropped out of the doctorate program at Yale.

Yale University was founded in 1701 in New Haven, Connecticut.

Slightly over 11,000 students attend Yale's undergraduate programs, ten professional schools and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

For instance, in U.S. News and World Report's America's Best Colleges 2006, Harvard and Princeton are tied for first, followed by Yale and University of Pennsylvania.

The same U.S. News and World Report rankings list Yale, Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton as the schools with the lowest acceptance rates, ranging from 10 to 13 percent.

Yale University is located in New Haven, Connecticut.

Slightly over 11,000 students attend Yale's undergraduate programs, 10 professional schools and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

For instance, in U.S. News and World Report's America's Best Colleges, Harvard and Princeton are tied for first, followed by Yale and University of Pennsylvania.

Harvard now provides full financial aid to students with family incomes of less than $41,000 per year, while Yale has a similar policy for students with family incomes of less than $45,000 per year.

Coupling an entry process similar to Juliard's (requiring entry exams, auditions and other tests), Yale has now become known for its music program.

Private universities like New York University, Columbia University and Yale are included in this average.

Yale college tuition can look pricey on the page, but a commitment to financial aid ensures that an Ivy League education is accessible to as many students as possible.

For instance, the Yale School of Drama lists tuition as $26,250 per year.

In the Yale School of Drama, the Technical Internship Program and Special Research Fellows program carried a yearly cost of $13,125 for students attending in 2009.

Although the cost of tuition may seem outside of your price range, Yale is committed to meeting 100% of the financial need of all admitted students.

For more information about up-to-date tuition costs and financial aid opportunities, visit the websites of the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Yale University Financial Aid.

Many small- to medium-sized institutions offer distance learning programs, but large universities with hefty reputations to uphold, including Harvard and Yale, also offer programs.

Studies sponsored or reviewed by organizations like, the American Association for Cancer Research and the Yale University School of Medicine, are finding that green tea really is good for you.

According to an article published in Yale Scientific, tannins send serotonin levels soaring, triggering migraines in some.

One prospective study done at Yale reported in 2004 that new GABHS infections do not appear to cause a worsening of tics in children diagnosed with OCD or Tourette syndrome.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, home-schooled students have gained admission and scholarships to such prestigious universities as Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and MIT.

Gesell, who founded the Clinic of Child Development at Yale University in 1911.

Mark is a lawyer with Masters Degrees in American Studies from NYU and Yale.

And nothing seems more collegiate than cotton, unless you're going to Yale where leather briefcases are mandatory.

Or, perhaps, you want to fool the world into believing that your "Yale Alumni" bumper sticker didn't come straight off the rack of a petrol station somewhere in rural Tennessee?

Blair continues working on her Yale admission, so Serena takes the opportunity to volunteer her friend to hang out with the daughter of a Yale donor, to score some points.

She wants to lose her virginity, and if Blair doesn't help her, she'll make sure Blair never darkens the doors of Yale.

Blair later discovers Emma's mom making out with a strange man in the corner, a man who isn't her Yale donor husband.

Blair entertains a call from the Yale dean, and finds out Emma put in a good word for her.

Though the latter helped move her one step closer to attending Yale.

Yale University School of Medicine research into yoga and cardiovascular health reports that a control group notably lowered their blood pressure in just six weeks by practicing yoga for 90 minutes per day three times a week.

The Yale University Office of Public Affairs discusses a Yale study that found that people with pervasive developmental disorders see faces as objects, possibly creating a disinterest in people.

Yale College graduate Dan Olmsted is an investigative reporter who focuses his research on autism and related pervasive developmental disorders.

Eric Friedman boasts undergraduate and graduate computer science degrees from Yale and his partner, James Park, never even bothered to finish his computer science degree at Harvard.

Britney Spears got her start in The Mickey Mouse Club; that well known group that churns out pop stars the way Yale's Skull and Bone society churns out world leaders.

Dr. Leffell developed the Yale Skin Cancer Detection Program.

In addition, the doctor serves as Director of the Yale Medical Group.

After only a month of this exclusivity, Facebook opened up to students at Stanford, Columbia and Yale as well.