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Yale

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Yale  (yl), Elihu 1649-1721.
Colonial-born English merchant and philanthropist who made a series of contributions to the Collegiate School in Connecticut, which was renamed in Yale's honor (1718).
Yale, Mount
A peak, 4,329.8 m (14,196 ft) high, in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado.
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Noun1.YaleYale - a university in Connecticut          
Yale University
Ivy League - a league of universities and colleges in the northeastern United States that have a reputation for scholastic achievement and social prestige
New Haven - a city in southwestern Connecticut; site of Yale University
2.YaleYale - English philanthropist who made contributions to a college in Connecticut that was renamed in his honor (1649-1721)
Elihu Yale


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He remained at Yale two years, and then threw up the struggle.
Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context
At the time of which I write I was nineteen years old, a student at Yale.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
Like a mob of young collegians, they are full of fight, fun, and wickedness, tumbling round the world at such a reckless, rollicking rate, that no prudent underwriter would insure them any more than he would a riotous lad at Yale or Harvard.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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