An American-born British merchant, Yale has been accused of racism and slavery in India, most famously by two of his paintings that used to hang inside Yale University - both featuring its founder prosperous founder Yale along with a brown boy, seemingly an Indian slave, wearing a collar like an animal. While historians remain mixed about his slave trading links, historical evidence suggests that Yale not only practices in and benefitted from the practice of buying and selling slaves but also mandated that European ships carry back at least ten slaves on board while returning from colonies like India.
Wales-based ITV News reported. With the debate on Yale, Twitter and other social media platforms were filled with criticism for both the Boston-born Elihu Yale as well as institutions that refused to identify racist leaders as who they really were. Author Ann Coulter, known for her right-wing views, also took to Twitter and wrote, " years of celebrating a racist, genocidal slave trader is enough.
Several others including TV presenter Jesse Kelly,. Yale University was named for Elihu Yale. The same cannot be said for Woodrow Wilson, Robert E. Lee, or John C. Calhoun, whose name was removed from a Yale dormitory in Wilson was not a casual bigot. He should be judged harshly as a politician.
Lee is known for being a traitor—an even easier case. Calhoun, I think, was more complicated. He was a Yale graduate and a United States senator, a secretary of war and of state, and a vice president, and he is one of very few American political theorists of the 19th century whose work repays reading today. He was also a raging racist who worked tirelessly to ensure and prolong the enslavement of millions of Black Americans. Given that he is known now mostly for the last of these distinctions, the balance does not favor him, and Yale has renamed Calhoun College accordingly, after the computer scientist and the Navy admiral Grace Murray Hopper.
But this conversation is a distraction—not because the legacy of injustice at institutions such as Yale and the U. The university has tried to make students, staff, and faculty from underrepresented backgrounds feel like they are full members of its community. Some other goals would be served splendidly. Nitwits will always be ready to assist by pushing the controversy well beyond its defensible limits: ripping down or defacing statues of, say, Abraham Lincoln or Ulysses S.
Purchases and plans for a college library date back to but were suspended when King Charles II forced the colony to unite with Connecticut in According to the early histories of Yale, a group of ten ministers led by the Reverend James Pierpont of New Haven met in nearby Branford in to found a college.
In New Haven was designated a co-capital of the colony with Hartford. However, the college operated in his home until his death in , when it moved to Saybrook. Over time the out-of-the-way location proved to be unpopular. In , the site was moved to New Haven, whose citizens had outbid all other communities in both land and money to support the college.
In , when wealthy London merchant Elihu Yale—step grandson of Theophilus Eaton, co-founder of the New Haven colony—donated over books, a portrait of King George I, and cloth goods that sold for pounds, the college was named Yale College. Connecticut Hall, a fine brick structure now the oldest standing Yale and New Haven building , was constructed in the early s.
Students and alumni of the s so actively supported the American revolutionary cause that the British looked upon Yale as a hotbed of sedition. On July 4, Yale President Ezra Stiles — first spied the British fleet approaching New Haven harbor through his telescope from the steeple of the college chapel. The student militia helped defend the town the following day. Yale led the way in graduate and specialized school education, creating in the same year the first professorships in agricultural and applied chemistry.
In the engineering school and the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy science were instituted. Graduate education in America advanced when Yale awarded the first doctor of philosophy degrees in America in In the s the divinity and law schools were established, and by mid-century Yale was the largest college in the United States. In the s, the Peabody Museum opened to exhibit the dinosaur and other bones and fossils collected by Professor O.
Women were admitted to the graduate school in , and seven of the group received doctor of philosophy degrees in Later that year the music department was ranked as a separate school. From to , the faculty grew from 64 to , and the student body from to Gifford Pinchot Class of , chief of the U. Forest Service, established the forestry school in with funds given by his family.
In the first quarter of the twentieth century, Yale made further advances in the education of women, admitting them to the medical school in and to the law school in , and establishing a school of nursing in
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