Yale University - Banner / Pot Pourri Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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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

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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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