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Elihu Yale (1648-1721) with his Black Servant painting by James Worsdale Elihu Yale ( 7 HE NEW BUILDING was named Yale College, for it was primarily as a result of the contributions of Elihu Yale that construction could be completed. Elihu Yale was born in Boston in 1648, but received his education and spent most of his life away from Amer- ica. As a governor in the East India Company he amased quite a sizable for- time, which he supplemented by marry- ing a wealthy widoAV. Prodded by Cotton Mather, colonial theologian and man of letters, and Jere- miah Dummer, a colonial agent, and other friends of the college, Elihu Yale made the college a gift of nine bales of goods, sold at auction in Boston for £562 12s. The gift, far surpassing any other received up to that date, greatly helped cement the position of the col- legiate school.

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blonial Antagonii iM ' osiTioN to the New Haven site was still quite vigorous, and removal of the library from Saybrook to the former city was forcibly opposed. Bridges were torn down and roads were blocked, but the books finally reached their destination, though almost one-quarter of the twelve himdred vol- imies and papers were lost in transit. Many of these have been recovered in subseqtient years. The Old Brick Row G??ONNECTicuT HALL, first building in the Old Brick Row, was completed in 1752. It still stands today, on the Old Campus, though it was called South Middle College for a large part of the time. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, the Old Brick Row, with [its] cin-ious aggregation of laboratory, mu- seum, and art gallery drawn up in its rear, represented the entire muster of . . . college buildings. The Administration N AGREEMENT in 1792, from which the college derived upwards of $40,000, resulted in the addition of the governor, the lieutenant-governor, and six senior state senators as Fellows or members of the Corporation of Yale. The Board of Trustees had formerly consisted of the successors of the original ten Congiegational ministers. In the early 1870s, the six senators were re- The Old Brick Row after 1870, with Connecticut Hall in the foreground