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Harkness Tower seen from Hotel Taft, with Connecticut Hall in the foreground Alumni Dinner in June, 1909, welcomed back alumni from 1844 on

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Military Training (j7 URiNG WORLD WAR I, Yale partially became a training camp for the armed services. Again, during World War II, Yale contributed its facilities and personnel to the war effort, so that over 20,000 men were trained. Military training in the Reserve Offi- cers Training Corps was first made pos- sible to Yale undergraduates in the 1860 ' s when Sheff received a land grant from the state of Connecticut, in return for which a professor of military science was permitted to join the Yale faculty. The ROTC program still exists at Yak- today, and its Naval counterpart is now also an active organization. University Expansion (j7 EVELOPMENT of the University ' s ex- ternal featiues has been pheno- menal throughout the past half-century, and only sizable gifts from generous philanthropists in addition to the faith- ful donations of coimtless aliniini have allowed many expansive changes. Frederick W. Vanderbilt, 1876, Ed- ward Harkness, 1897, and John Ster- ling, 1864, are the names of only a few of the men Avho have provided vast sums of money in order to perpetuate and improve this center of learning. The Coat of Arms (jT ' nY. ARMS of Yale University come from the design at the center of the seal which has been used since the early days of the college. The characters on the book form the words Urim and Thiunmin, names of an ancient de- vice used to ascertain the divine will. Written across an open book they sug- gest that the book contains divine oracles or revelations. In the Latin Old Testament they are translated doctrina et Veritas. For the Yale seal-legend the deviser of the seal retained the Veritas (truth), but substituted lux (light) for doctrina (learning). The seal is the property of the Presi- dent and Fellows of the University. It is used by them to authenticate signa- tures on documents and for other offi- cial purposes of the university as the Corporation ' s symbol of authority. The distinctive Yale decoration used by mem- bers and graduates of the university is not the seal but the coat of arms. , ' n Memory of Iril ,M£Nof YalE who. true l.o Her fradilions vo Their i.ivf5 ihai Freedom miOhl nol perish fr(im ihe Earth ■iomanno DoMiNrigis- Alumni War Memorial Alumni Organizations N ALUMNI BOARD was formed in 1904, its original adherents claim- ing that annual elections would provide a group representative of the alumni ' s true feelings. The Alumni Association, a separate organization, was first formed in 1827, though the first alumni reimion was probably that of the Class of 1821, held in 1824. The Cincinnati Yale Club, founded in 1864, is the oldest alumni organization extant, not only among Yale giaduates, but of any college or

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university in the United States, and the alumni in general have proven staunch supporters of Yale, both financially and inspirationally. Because of the great number of men Yale has prepared for the presidency of other institutions of learning, a record unmatched by any other university, she is often called the mother of colleges. An Illustrious Alumni s FOR the other famous men of Yale, the ninnber -who deserve rec- ognition is astounding. So it is that this statement by another must suffice: If one could name ... all the grad- uates of Yale, he would find so great a list of men that it voidd form a roll of honor all its o vn. Presidents and states- men, business men and doctors— every stepping-stone of life is starred by men who went to Yale. And So It Grows . . . (: ALE UNIVERSITY has grown — and grown — and grown. So has the indi- vidual once he, too, has been able to say proudly, I am a Yale man. For if ... he does not grow stronger through the associations and subtle influences that surround him, it will not be be- cause Yale has not offered him what any right-minded young man is eager to have,— the opportvmity to make some- thing out of himself. John L. Geismar