Yale

[Yale]

English philanthropist who made contributions to a college in Connecticut that was renamed in his honor (1649-1721)

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Noun
a university in Connecticut

Noun
English philanthropist who made contributions to a college in Connecticut that was renamed in his honor (1649-1721)


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Usage Examples

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

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Other Usage Examples

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

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