Eleazar Wheelock
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Eleazar Wheelock was an American Congregational minister, orator, and educator in present-day Columbia, Connecticut, for 35 years before founding Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. He had tutored Sam
Portrait by Joseph Steward, 1793–1796
Yale College
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Yale College is the undergraduate college of Yale University. Founded in 1701, it is the original school of the university. Although other Yale schools were founded as early as 1810, all of Yale was o
Eleazar Wheelock
…of the first teacher of the first free school in the United States (see Dedham, Massachusetts), the Rev. Ralph Wheelock. In 1733, he graduated from Yale College, having won the first award of the Dean Berkeley Donation for distinction in classics. He continued his theological studies at Yale until he was licensed…
The coat of arms of the College is inspired by the coat of arms of Elihu Yale
Elihu Yale Memorial, St. Mary's Church, Madras
Harkness Tower at Yale
Sheffield–Sterling–Strathcona Hall, main administrative building of Yale College