Yale

(yāl), 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).

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yale

(jeɪl)

a mythical beast with the body of an antelope or goat and swivelling horns

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Yale

(yeɪl)

n.

Elihu, 1648–1721, English colonial official, born in America: governor of Madras 1687–92.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	Yale - 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.	Yale - English philanthropist who made contributions to a college in Connecticut that was renamed in his honor (1649-1721) Elihu Yale

Translations

Yale

® [jeɪl] CPD Yale key N → llave f de seguridad
Yale lock N → cerradura f de cilindro

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This went on till he was nineteen, then he was sent to Yale. He went handsomely equipped with "conditions," but otherwise he was not an object of distinction there.

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At the time of which I write I was nineteen years old, a student at Yale. One day I received a telegram from my father of such urgency that in compliance with its unexplained demand I left at once for home.

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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.

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At Andover, and later at Yale, I had pitched on winning ball teams.

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"I suppose you don't remember if it was a Yale on the front door as well?"

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John, the oldest, in Yale, had elected to become a man of letters, and, in the meantime, ran his own automobile with the corresponding standard of living such ownership connoted in the college town of New Haven.

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When Professor Marsh was out here hunting bones for the chapel of Yale University he found skeletons of horses no bigger than a fox, bedded in the rocks, and he said they were ancestors of my father.

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in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honor and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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She would be perfectly safe, he said, as he had just put a new Yale lock on the front door.

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It was an ordinary key of the Yale type, with a bit of twisted wire through the handle.

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And at a fifth, in New Haven, Bell stood sixteen Yale professors in line, hand in hand, and talked through their bodies--a feat which was then, and is to-day, almost too wonderful to believe.

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In 1909, barely fourteen years of age, he was ready--"more than ready" the headmaster of the academy said--to enter Yale or Harvard.

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