New Haven, CONNECTICUT - Yale University - Woodbridge Hall - LINEN - Sepia

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New Haven, CONNECTICUT - Yale University - Woodbridge Hall - LINEN: Woodbridge Hall was completed for Yale’s bicentennial in 1901 by the gift of Olivia Egleston Phelps Stokes and Caroline Phelps Stokes and named for Rev. Timothy Woodbridge, one of the founders of Yale College. The heart of the “power center of the university,” it houses the Office of the President, the Office of the Secretary, and the Corporation Room. Yale University is a private Ivy League research university located in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Originally chartered as the "Collegiate School", the institution traces its roots to 17th-century clergymen who sought to establish a college to train clergy and political leaders for the colony. In 1718, the College was renamed "Yale College" to honor a gift from Elihu Yale, a governor of the British East India Company. In 1861, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences became the first U.S. institution to award the Ph.D. Yale became a founding member of the Association of American Universities in 1900. Yale College was transformed, beginning in the 1930s, through the establishment of residential colleges: 12 now exist and two more are planned. The card is in good condition. The Edward P. Judd Co., New Haven, Conn.