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James Tinkham Babb Librarian David Horace Clift Associate Librarian Donald Goddard Wing Associate Librarian Dirk Brouwer Director, University Observatory Reverend Sidney Loveti . . .Chaplain, Church of Christ in Yale Reverend Burton MacLean . . . .Associate Chaplain, Church of Christ in Yale Albert Beecher Crawford . . . .Director, Student .A jjpointment Bureau Stuart Holmes Clement Associate Director, Student Appointment Bureau Paul Sylvester Burnham Associate Director, Studetit Appoiutme7if Bureau Robert Andrew Hali Chairman of the Board of Control, Athletic .Association Orviile Forrest Rogers . . . .Director, Department of University Health A. Mar(;aret Bowers Director, Unii ' ersity Dijiing Halls THE CORPORATION Alfred Whitney Griswold President The Governor of Connecticut . . . .ex-officio The Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut ex-officio ALUMNI BOARD Edwin Foster Blair, ' 24 Chairinan Francis Day Rogers, ' 35 .First Vice-Cfiairman Otis L. Hubbard, ' 24 . .Second Vice-Chairman C. Hamilton Sanford jr., ' 28S . . . .Secretary Fellows Rev. Arthur Bradford. Ir ing Olds, Lewis ' eed, Robert Tatt. Rt. Rev. Henry Shenill. George Van Sant oord. Rev. Morgan Noyes, Dean Acheson, Charles Dickey, Morris Hadley, Trubee Davison, Wilmarth Lewis, Juan Irippe, Robert Stevens, Edwin Blair, and Jonathan Bingham. Executive Committee Irving Olds, ' 07, William Proctor, ' 16, Arthur Milliken, ' 26, James Black jr., ' SOS, Henry Lovejoy, ' 07, Charles Paul, ' 12, Victor Larson. ' 27S, William Bascom, ' 32. George Flinn jr., 26S, A. Varick Stout jr., ' 26, AValter Williams jr., •32S, Donald Rich jr., ' 36. Dean Carroll Dean Hax ' enie ( -

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YALE 1701-1951 Ten Ministers and Forty Books T WAS late in 1701 when ten of the principal ministers of Connecticut, from as many different towns, met for the purpose of sponsoring a new college. As a group they presented a number of books, popularly accepted as being forty, and under these humble conditions was a university born. I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony, each minister said, in effect, as he laid his books on the table. On October 9, 1701, an act for liberty to erect a collegiate school was ratified by the Colonial Assembly, who voted sixty poinids sterling in support of the collegiate school. Yale ' s First President NE MONTH LATER, the appointment of Reverend Abraham Pierson of Killingworth (now Clinton) as first rec- tor was announced. He had graduated from Harvard in 1688. After considerable controversy about the most suitable location for the col- lege, it was decided that Saybrook should be the site. But the Reverend Mr. Pierson ' s congregation temporarily resolved the dispute by insisting that he remain in Killingworth. The college, consisting only of his private home, was situated there until the death of Rector Pierson in 1707. Yale ' s First Student (j URiNG THOSE five ycars at Killing- worth, only thirteen students made use of their limited opportunities for educating themselves, and the future of the college was still quite questionable. Jacob Heminway, of East Haven, was the first student, studying alone with the rector until late in 1702, when seven more students joined him. The first commencement, however, was held in that same year, at Saybrook, when four men who had graduated from Harvard and a fifth who had been privately tutored received degrees of either Mas- ter or Bachelor of Arts.