| Organization name | Yale College |
| Date founded | 1701 |
| Org type | University or College |
| Bio notes | Founded in 1701 in Saybrook Colony as the Collegiate School, although renamed in 1718 in recognition of a gift from merchant Elihu Yale. Located in New Haven, Connecticut, it was originally founded to train Congregationalist ministers by the Connecticut Colonial Government, although a little later, Harvard President Increase Mather hoped Yale would foster an Orthodox Puritanism absent from his own school. |
| Citations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University; https://www.britannica.com/topic/Yale-University |
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