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category-yale-history"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/upcoming-lectures-on-the-coeducation-and-the-yale-campus-exhibit/" rel="bookmark">Upcoming Lectures on the Coeducation and the Yale Campus Exhibit</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="sep">Posted on </span><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/upcoming-lectures-on-the-coeducation-and-the-yale-campus-exhibit/" title="3:12 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2021-10-08T15:12:47+00:00">October 8, 2021</time></a><span class="by-author"> <span class="sep"> by </span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/author/bl326/" title="View all posts by bl326" rel="author">bl326</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p><em>The following post was authored by Michael Lotstein, university archivist in Manuscripts and Archives.</em></p> <p>The Yale University Archives, in collaboration with the Yale Alumni Association, are pleased to announce a pair of lectures for the fall semester on the exhibit, <a href="https://onlineexhibits.library.yale.edu/s/-we-thought-of-ourselves-as-architects-coeducation-and-the-yale-campus/page/welcome">“We thought of ourselves as architects”: Coeducation and the Yale Campus, 1968-1973</a>.</p> <div id="attachment_1699" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2021/10/ru_0690_Proposed-Campus_overview1.jpg"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1699" class="size-medium wp-image-1699" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2021/10/ru_0690_Proposed-Campus_overview1-300x169.jpg" alt="Image of an aerial view of the two new residential colleges proposed by the Brewster administration in 1972 that were not built due to opposition from the city of New Haven and Yale students." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2021/10/ru_0690_Proposed-Campus_overview1-300x169.jpg 300w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2021/10/ru_0690_Proposed-Campus_overview1-500x281.jpg 500w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2021/10/ru_0690_Proposed-Campus_overview1.jpg 720w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1699" class="wp-caption-text">An aerial view of the two new residential colleges proposed by the Brewster administration in 1972 that were not built due to opposition from the city of New Haven and Yale students. Yale Events and Activities Photographs (RU 690), Box 17, Folder 267.</p></div> <p>Hosted by co-curators Michael Lotstein, university archivist, and Charlotte Keathley, Class of 2022 (Ezra Stiles College), the lectures will delve into the history of coeducation in Yale College through the lens of the buildings and physical spaces of the Yale campus, which were an integral part of this important period in Yale history.</p> <p>The lectures will be offered on Zoom and scheduled for Thursday, October 14, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., and Wednesday, November 17, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. RSVPs are not required to attend.</p> <p>Please send any questions to the University Archives at <a href="mailto:archives@yale.edu">archives@yale.edu</a>.</p> <p>Zoom link for October 14<sup>th</sup>:</p> <p><a href="https://yalelibrary.zoom.us/j/91796381847?pwd=QVArUFRKZGR1Vzd1SVQraGE2VHdXZz09">https://yalelibrary.zoom.us/j/91796381847?pwd=QVArUFRKZGR1Vzd1SVQraGE2VHdXZz09</a><br /> Passcode: 055595</p> <p>Zoom link for November 17th:</p> <p><a href="https://yalelibrary.zoom.us/j/97966310424?pwd=TTQ2ZllDcUZtMGZMM0RoNjgvb0VrZz09">https://yalelibrary.zoom.us/j/97966310424?pwd=TTQ2ZllDcUZtMGZMM0RoNjgvb0VrZz09</a><br /> Passcode: 128150</p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta"> <span class="cat-links"> <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-cat-links">Posted in</span> <a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/category/collections/" rel="category tag">Collections</a>, <a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/category/events/" rel="category tag">Events</a>, <a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/category/current-exhibits/" rel="category tag">Exhibits</a>, <a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/category/new-haven-history/" rel="category tag">New Haven History</a>, <a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/category/yale-history/" rel="category tag">Yale History</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-1680" class="post-1680 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-current-exhibits category-yale-history"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/new-online-exhibit-on-coeducation-at-yale-1968-1973/" rel="bookmark">New Online Exhibit on Coeducation at Yale, 1968-1973</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="sep">Posted on </span><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/new-online-exhibit-on-coeducation-at-yale-1968-1973/" title="8:13 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2021-09-14T20:13:05+00:00">September 14, 2021</time></a><span class="by-author"> <span class="sep"> by </span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/author/bl326/" title="View all posts by bl326" rel="author">bl326</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p><em>The following post was authored by Michael Lotstein, university archivist in Manuscripts and Archives.</em></p> <p><div id="attachment_1682" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2021/09/ru_0821_ACCN_19ND_A_086_b28_f965_Stiles-housing-petition_1_2.jpg"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1682" id="longdesc-return-1682" class="size-medium wp-image-1682" tabindex="-1" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2021/09/ru_0821_ACCN_19ND_A_086_b28_f965_Stiles-housing-petition_1_2-300x262.jpg" alt="Image of Ezra Stiles College petition against housing women in the tower, February 1969" width="300" height="262" longdesc="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa?longdesc=1682&referrer=1680" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2021/09/ru_0821_ACCN_19ND_A_086_b28_f965_Stiles-housing-petition_1_2-300x262.jpg 300w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2021/09/ru_0821_ACCN_19ND_A_086_b28_f965_Stiles-housing-petition_1_2-1024x895.jpg 1024w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2021/09/ru_0821_ACCN_19ND_A_086_b28_f965_Stiles-housing-petition_1_2-768x672.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2021/09/ru_0821_ACCN_19ND_A_086_b28_f965_Stiles-housing-petition_1_2-1536x1343.jpg 1536w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2021/09/ru_0821_ACCN_19ND_A_086_b28_f965_Stiles-housing-petition_1_2-343x300.jpg 343w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2021/09/ru_0821_ACCN_19ND_A_086_b28_f965_Stiles-housing-petition_1_2.jpg 1673w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1682" class="wp-caption-text">Ezra Stiles College petition against housing women in the tower, February 1969. [RU 821, Accession 19ND-A-086, Box 28, Folder 965]</p></div>This month the University Archives posted a new online exhibit entitled, <a href="https://onlineexhibits.library.yale.edu/s/-we-thought-of-ourselves-as-architects-coeducation-and-the-yale-campus/page/welcome">“We thought of ourselves as architects”: Coeducation and the Yale Campus, 1968-1973</a>. Co-curated by University Archivist Michael Lotstein and Charlotte Keathley, Class of 2022 (Ezra Stiles College), this exhibit explores how the sudden decision to bring coeducation to Yale College in 1969 impacted the buildings and spaces of the Yale campus, which had been conceived and built to house and educate men for the previous 250 years.</p> <p>Included in the exhibit are university records, photographs, and digitized audio-visual materials which document how in a few short months university administration planned and reconfigured both Vanderbilt Hall and the residential colleges to safely and comfortably house the incoming women; how the implementation of coeducation impacted student life on campus; how the women, through sheer force of will, successfully carved out spaces for themselves on this previously all-male campus; and how the male and female students united in the face of the mounting social and political changes of the late 1960s and early 1970s.</p> <p>For more information about the exhibit, please contact the University Archives at: <a href="mailto:archives@yale.edu">archives@yale.edu</a>.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta"> <span class="cat-links"> <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-cat-links">Posted in</span> <a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/category/current-exhibits/" rel="category tag">Exhibits</a>, <a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/category/yale-history/" rel="category tag">Yale History</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-1658" class="post-1658 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-collections category-yale-history"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/new-virtual-bookshelf-of-undergraduate-publications-yours-to-explore/" rel="bookmark">New “Virtual Bookshelf of Undergraduate Publications” – Yours to Explore!</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="sep">Posted on </span><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/new-virtual-bookshelf-of-undergraduate-publications-yours-to-explore/" title="3:00 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2021-01-27T15:00:00+00:00">January 27, 2021</time></a><span class="by-author"> <span class="sep"> by </span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/author/bl326/" title="View all posts by bl326" rel="author">bl326</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p><em>The following post was authored by Michael Lotstein, University Archivist, Manuscripts and Archives.</em></p> <p><strong>T</strong>his week the University Archives has updated the <a href="https://guides.library.yale.edu/c.php?g=296060&p=1973540">undergraduate publications</a> section of the <a href="https://guides.library.yale.edu/yalepubs">Yale Publications</a> research guide to include a new website called <a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fyale.edu%2Fundergraduate-publications%2Fbookshelf&data=04%7C01%7Cbill.landis%40yale.edu%7Cc91db92d1dec45d4cc3a08d8bedaed9d%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C637469194787260092%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=%2BX2HEaWVuJDpSYeNGOPx1g3IQVxqgAMBlRgU7N1gKn0%3D&reserved=0">Virtual Bookshelf of Undergraduate Publications</a>. The Virtual Bookshelf is the brainchild of Jarron Long, Class of 2023 (Grace Hopper College) and contains links and information on dozens of current undergraduate publications featuring a wide variety of topics and interests. Jarron tackled this project single-handed, mostly over the 2020 holiday break, and aims to promote and celebrate the hard work and dedication that goes into the production of these important publications. Jarron’s admitted favorites are the <a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fissuu.com%2Fyaleepicurean&data=04%7C01%7Cbill.landis%40yale.edu%7Cc91db92d1dec45d4cc3a08d8bedaed9d%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C637469194787270051%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=1oNGpvpINmevsN5waLkOzDtAn5CVCPHdN2vWyLcfD%2Fo%3D&reserved=0">Yale Epicurean</a> because, who doesn’t love food(!) and the <a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyujc.org%2Fthe-turnaround&data=04%7C01%7Cbill.landis%40yale.edu%7Cc91db92d1dec45d4cc3a08d8bedaed9d%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C637469194787270051%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=O9wa9vCtg%2FqhDgujXqkAtPvTRQatlSIOZtnXQcSjdgA%3D&reserved=0">Turnaround</a>, which is the official magazine of the Yale Undergraduate Jazz Collective.</p> <div id="attachment_1661" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2021/01/VBUP.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1661" id="longdesc-return-1661" class="size-medium wp-image-1661" tabindex="-1" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2021/01/VBUP-300x86.jpg" alt="Screen shot of the Virtual Bookshelf of Undergraduate Publications home page" width="300" height="86" longdesc="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa?longdesc=1661&referrer=1658" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2021/01/VBUP-300x86.jpg 300w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2021/01/VBUP-1024x293.jpg 1024w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2021/01/VBUP-768x220.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2021/01/VBUP-1536x439.jpg 1536w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2021/01/VBUP-1000x288.jpg 1000w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2021/01/VBUP-500x143.jpg 500w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2021/01/VBUP.jpg 1791w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1661" class="wp-caption-text">Screen shot of the Virtual Bookshelf of Undergraduate Publications home page</p></div> <p>So take a moment and visit this amazing new site to learn more about the multitude of journals, ‘zines and publications the Yale undergraduate community is hard at work creating!</p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta"> <span class="cat-links"> <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-cat-links">Posted in</span> <a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/category/collections/" rel="category tag">Collections</a>, <a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/category/yale-history/" rel="category tag">Yale History</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-1644" class="post-1644 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-yale-history"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/1924-silent-films-from-the-yale-university-press/" rel="bookmark">1924 Silent Films from the Yale University Press</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="sep">Posted on </span><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/1924-silent-films-from-the-yale-university-press/" title="6:48 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2020-10-09T18:48:54+00:00">October 9, 2020</time></a><span class="by-author"> <span class="sep"> by </span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/author/bl326/" title="View all posts by bl326" rel="author">bl326</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p><em>The following post was authored by Michael Lotstein, University Archivist, Manuscripts and Archives.</em></p> <div id="attachment_1646" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/10/1920s-chronicles-of-america-yale-university-press-books-set-of-49-0606.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1646" id="longdesc-return-1646" class="size-medium wp-image-1646" tabindex="-1" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/10/1920s-chronicles-of-america-yale-university-press-books-set-of-49-0606-300x300.jpeg" alt="Image of volumes of the Chronicles of America volumes" width="300" height="300" longdesc="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa?longdesc=1646&referrer=1644" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/10/1920s-chronicles-of-america-yale-university-press-books-set-of-49-0606-300x300.jpeg 300w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/10/1920s-chronicles-of-america-yale-university-press-books-set-of-49-0606-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/10/1920s-chronicles-of-america-yale-university-press-books-set-of-49-0606-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/10/1920s-chronicles-of-america-yale-university-press-books-set-of-49-0606-768x768.jpeg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/10/1920s-chronicles-of-america-yale-university-press-books-set-of-49-0606-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/10/1920s-chronicles-of-america-yale-university-press-books-set-of-49-0606.jpeg 1600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1646" class="wp-caption-text">Chronicles of America volumes published by Yale University Press. Image source: chairish.com</p></div> <p>In 1918, the Yale University Press published a fifty-volume book series on American history entitled <em>Chronicles of America</em>. The series included contributions from Yale faculty, including Ellsworth Huntington, Charles Seymour, and Charles McLean Andrews. In 1923, the Yale University Press commissioned the production of historical films based on the series. Ultimately, fifteen films were made at a cost of $1.25 million dollars ($15.2 million dollars today) that proved to be a financial failure. The films not only proved to be theatrically impractical, but unusable in schools that at the time lacked the means to incorporate films into the classroom. Two of these films—“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bBVaQKxNG0&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Puritans</a>” and “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2_cdedYo-U&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Pilgrims</a>,” both produced in 1924, provide instructive glimpses into how academic historians of a century ago envisioned the shared heritage of the America and New England. <em>Note: The films are posted on YouTube, so there may be commercials included that are unaffiliated with the films or with Yale University Press.</em></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta"> <span class="cat-links"> <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-cat-links">Posted in</span> <a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/category/yale-history/" rel="category tag">Yale History</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-1596" class="post-1596 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-collections category-yale-history"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/help-us-make-history-at-the-yale-university-archives/" rel="bookmark">“Help Us Make History” at the Yale University Archives</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="sep">Posted on </span><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/help-us-make-history-at-the-yale-university-archives/" title="9:05 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2020-06-15T21:05:42+00:00">June 15, 2020</time></a><span class="by-author"> <span class="sep"> by </span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/author/bl326/" title="View all posts by bl326" rel="author">bl326</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Through the <a href="https://makehistory.library.yale.edu/">Help Us Make History</a> project, the University Archives has documented the stories of Yale undergraduates during the 2020 Spring Semester. The first prompt “Share a picture of your study space” was a great success. See some examples of how Yale undergraduate students finished out their semester. If you would like to participate, there is still time to visit the site and send us a pic of your study space from the past semester. Otherwise, stay tuned for more prompts coming soon!</p> <p><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/06/room1-1.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1603" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/06/room1-1-225x300.jpg" alt="Image of a Yale student's COVID-19 isolation work space" width="225" height="300" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/06/room1-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/06/room1-1-769x1024.jpg 769w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/06/room1-1-768x1023.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/06/room1-1-1153x1536.jpg 1153w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/06/room1-1.jpg 1441w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a>“Desk in my brother’s room at home. Around me were childhood stuffed animals, a turtle tank and a full-size bed. Important to me is the sunlight filtering in. Lighting has had a drastic influence on my mood, motivation and study habits. The same is what occurs in my brain, the logical connections, the development of claims, the cranking out of problems. But nothing outside my mind has continued the same. I miss the intellectual generosity that the Yale space fosters and that my peers bring into my life.”</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/06/room2.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1601" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/06/room2-300x169.jpg" alt="Image of a Yale student's COVID-19 isolation work space" width="300" height="169" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/06/room2-300x169.jpg 300w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/06/room2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/06/room2-768x432.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/06/room2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/06/room2-500x281.jpg 500w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/06/room2.jpg 1920w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>“I lived in Baker Hall, my work-space was the desk next to my bed. I had a nice view of the trees from my window. In had everything I needed in my small work-space: a small pot to warm water for tea, my computer for attending my online classes, a lamp, a calendar, and pictures to remind me of my family and home (Mexico). I played the ukulele to relax, each post-it was a new ukulele song. I had three boards on the walls to write down my ideas, a section of my one of my boards can be seen in the reflection on the mirror.”</p> <p><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/06/room3.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1600" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/06/room3-300x225.jpg" alt="Image of a Yale student's COVID-19 isolation work space" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/06/room3-300x225.jpg 300w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/06/room3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/06/room3-768x576.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/06/room3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/06/room3-400x300.jpg 400w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/06/room3.jpg 1920w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>“My family and I moved from CT to NJ during our spring break. Due to the quarantine, we weren’t able to buy a lot of the furniture we were planning to and I built myself a makeshift desk out of boxes and totes. The desk is in my room and was definitely a huge improvement from sitting on my bed for hours on end.”</p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta"> <span class="cat-links"> <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-cat-links">Posted in</span> <a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/category/collections/" rel="category tag">Collections</a>, <a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/category/yale-history/" rel="category tag">Yale History</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-1553" class="post-1553 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-collections category-yale-history"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/kingman-brewster-personal-papers-are-now-available-for-research/" rel="bookmark">Kingman Brewster Personal Papers Are Now Available for Research</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="sep">Posted on </span><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/kingman-brewster-personal-papers-are-now-available-for-research/" title="4:27 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2020-02-07T16:27:31+00:00">February 7, 2020</time></a><span class="by-author"> <span class="sep"> by </span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/author/ac2254/" title="View all posts by Alison" rel="author">Alison</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The Kingman Brewster Personal Papers (<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0572">Finding aid</a>) are now open to research. Brewster (1919-1988) was a noted American educator, who became especially well-known when he served as president of Yale University from 1964 to 1977.</p> <p>Brewster was born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts on June 17, 1919, the son of Kingman Brewster Sr. and Florence Foster. His parents divorced in 1923 and he and his sister settled with their mother in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His mother married Edward Ballantine, a Harvard University music professor. Brewster attended the Belmont Hill School, where he participated in debate and drama. Before entering Yale University as an undergraduate student, Brewster traveled to Europe with his family. He attended Yale College from 1937 to 1941, where he was chairman of the <em>Yale Daily News</em> and was involved in the America First campaign, protesting America’s involvement in World War II.</p> <div id="attachment_1573" style="width: 243px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/019.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1573" class="wp-image-1573 size-medium" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/019-233x300.jpg" alt="Beginning of Brewster's Yale College class oration, 1941." width="233" height="300" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/019-233x300.jpg 233w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/019-795x1024.jpg 795w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/019-768x989.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/019-1193x1536.jpg 1193w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/019.jpg 1491w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1573" class="wp-caption-text">Beginning of Brewster’s Yale College class oration, 1941.</p></div> <p>After the attacks on Pearl Harbor, Brewster enlisted. He served as a Naval aviator and flew anti-submarine patrols in South America for three years.</p> <div id="attachment_1561" style="width: 239px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/012.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1561" class="wp-image-1561 size-medium" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/012-229x300.jpg" alt="Page 1 of a letter from Kingman Brewster to Mary Louise Phillips Brewster, written from Paris and regarding his social engagements during a break from his military service." width="229" height="300" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/012-229x300.jpg 229w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/012-780x1024.jpg 780w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/012-768x1008.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/012-1170x1536.jpg 1170w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/012.jpg 1463w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1561" class="wp-caption-text">Page 1 of a letter from Kingman Brewster to Mary Louise Phillips Brewster, written from Paris and regarding his social engagements during a break from his military service.</p></div> <div id="attachment_1562" style="width: 238px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/013.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1562" class="wp-image-1562 size-medium" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/013-228x300.jpg" alt="Page 2 of a letter from Kingman Brewster to Mary Louise Phillips Brewster, written from Paris and regarding his social engagements during a break from his military service." width="228" height="300" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/013-228x300.jpg 228w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/013-778x1024.jpg 778w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/013-768x1011.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/013-1167x1536.jpg 1167w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/013.jpg 1459w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1562" class="wp-caption-text">Page 2 of a letter from Kingman Brewster to Mary Louise Phillips Brewster, written from Paris and regarding his social engagements during a break from his military service.</p></div> <div id="attachment_1563" style="width: 238px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/014.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1563" class="wp-image-1563 size-medium" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/014-228x300.jpg" alt="Page 3 of a letter from Kingman Brewster to Mary Louise Phillips Brewster, written from Paris and regarding his social engagements during a break from his military service." width="228" height="300" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/014-228x300.jpg 228w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/014-778x1024.jpg 778w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/014-768x1011.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/014-1167x1536.jpg 1167w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/014.jpg 1459w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1563" class="wp-caption-text">Page 3 of a letter from Kingman Brewster to Mary Louise Phillips Brewster, written from Paris and regarding his social engagements during a break from his military service.</p></div> <p>After the war ended, he attended Harvard Law School, where he served on the <em>Harvard Law Review</em>. He graduated magna cum laude in 1948. Following graduation, he went to Paris and served as assistant general counsel to Milton Katz, the United States Special Representative in Europe for the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA). The ECA was responsible for administering the Marshall Plan, and his work with Katz in Paris marked the start of a long-term professional relationship and personal friendship. Thereafter he accepted a position in the economics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1950, Brewster was appointed assistant professor at Harvard Law School. He was promoted to full professor in 1953. While at Harvard, he became a noted expert on antitrust matters and international commerce and relations. His well-received publications included <em>Antitrust and American Business Abroad</em>, published in 1958, and <em>The Law of International Transactions and Relations: Cases and Materials</em>, co-authored with Milton Katz and published in 1960.</p> <div id="attachment_1560" style="width: 240px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/006.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1560" class="size-medium wp-image-1560" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/006-230x300.jpg" alt="Letter from Brewster to his colleagues regarding a survey of the "behavioural sciences" at Harvard University." width="230" height="300" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/006-230x300.jpg 230w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/006-786x1024.jpg 786w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/006-768x1001.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/006-1178x1536.jpg 1178w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/006.jpg 1473w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1560" class="wp-caption-text">Letter from Brewster to his colleagues regarding a survey of the “behavioural sciences” at Harvard University.</p></div> <p>In 1960, Brewster returned to Yale University as provost under Yale president, A. Whitney Griswold, who had taught at Yale when Brewster was a student and was a friend of Brewster’s parents.</p> <div id="attachment_1564" style="width: 244px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/015.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1564" class="wp-image-1564 size-medium" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/015-234x300.jpg" alt="Page 1 of a letter from Brewster to A. Whitney Griswold regarding Griswold's thoughts on the liberal arts." width="234" height="300" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/015-234x300.jpg 234w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/015-797x1024.jpg 797w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/015-768x986.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/015-1196x1536.jpg 1196w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/015.jpg 1495w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1564" class="wp-caption-text">Page 1 of a letter from Brewster to A. Whitney Griswold regarding Griswold’s thoughts on the liberal arts.</p></div> <div id="attachment_1565" style="width: 242px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/016.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1565" class="wp-image-1565 size-medium" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/016-232x300.jpg" alt="Page 2 of a letter from Brewster to A. Whitney Griswold regarding Griswold's thoughts on the liberal arts." width="232" height="300" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/016-232x300.jpg 232w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/016-791x1024.jpg 791w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/016-768x994.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/016-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/016.jpg 1484w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1565" class="wp-caption-text">Page 2 of a letter from Brewster to A. Whitney Griswold regarding Griswold’s thoughts on the liberal arts.</p></div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>After Griswold died from cancer in 1963, Brewster became acting Yale University president and was named president in October. He was inaugurated in April 1964.</p> <p>Brewster led the university through significant and controversial changes to the faculty, student body, and curricula. For a summary of the work of his presidential administration and the records that document it, see <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ru.0011">the Kingman Brewster, Jr., president of Yale University, records</a>.</p> <p>In May 1977, Brewster left Yale to become Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s in the United Kingdom.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><iframe loading="lazy" style="width: 100%;" src="https://yalemssa.aviaryplatform.com/embed/media/69326?" width="1200" height="400"></iframe><em><br /> Swearing in of Kingman Brewster, Jr. as Ambassador to the Court Of St. James’s in May 1977. Brewster was sworn in by Cyrus Vance, and the recording includes comments by Vance, Brewster, and Hanna Holborn Gray</em></p> <p>He served as ambassador until 1981 and was well-liked by the British with whom he regularly interacted. He travelled throughout the country to meet people and noted that his job was to try “to advise my Government on British attitudes and concerns in the fullest way possible.”</p> <div id="attachment_1577" style="width: 222px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/023.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1577" class="wp-image-1577 size-medium" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/023-212x300.jpg" alt="Page 1 of a BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Brewster regarding the release of United States diplomats and citizens from the United States Embassy in Tehran, Iran." width="212" height="300" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/023-212x300.jpg 212w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/023-725x1024.jpg 725w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/023-768x1085.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/023-1087x1536.jpg 1087w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/023.jpg 1359w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1577" class="wp-caption-text">Page 1 of a BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Brewster regarding the release of United States diplomats and citizens from the United States Embassy in Tehran, Iran, January 21, 1981.</p></div> <div id="attachment_1578" style="width: 223px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/024.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1578" class="wp-image-1578 size-medium" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/024-213x300.jpg" alt="Page 2 of a BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Brewster regarding the release of United States diplomats and citizens from the United States Embassy in Tehran, Iran." width="213" height="300" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/024-213x300.jpg 213w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/024-729x1024.jpg 729w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/024-768x1079.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/024-1093x1536.jpg 1093w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/024.jpg 1366w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1578" class="wp-caption-text">Page 2 of a BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Brewster regarding the release of United States diplomats and citizens from the United States Embassy in Tehran, Iran, January 21, 1981.</p></div> <div id="attachment_1579" style="width: 225px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/025.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1579" class="wp-image-1579 size-medium" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/025-215x300.jpg" alt="Page 3 of a BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Brewster regarding the release of United States diplomats and citizens from the United States Embassy in Tehran, Iran, January 21, 1981." width="215" height="300" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/025-215x300.jpg 215w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/025-735x1024.jpg 735w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/025-768x1070.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/025-1102x1536.jpg 1102w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/025.jpg 1378w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1579" class="wp-caption-text">Page 3 of a BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Brewster regarding the release of United States diplomats and citizens from the United States Embassy in Tehran, Iran, January 21, 1981.</p></div> <p><iframe loading="lazy" style="width: 100%;" src="https://yalemssa.aviaryplatform.com/embed/media/69126?" width="1200" height="400"></iframe></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>BBC Platform One interview with Kingman Brewster, Jr., recorded in January 1981, shortly before final confirmation of the release of the American hostages from the United States Embassy in Tehran, Iran</em></p> <p>After the ambassadorship ended in 1981, Brewster returned to New Haven, and worked for the New York-based law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam, and Roberts. He also served as chairman of the English-Speaking Union of the United States, a group that sponsors cultural and educational opportunities for students and educators. He was active in other organizations, serving in positions with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Reuters, Common Cause, and the American Council of Learned Societies. In 1984, he returned to London as resident partner for his law firm.</p> <p>In 1985, he was elected Master of University College at Oxford, an unusual position for an American to hold.</p> <div id="attachment_1557" style="width: 223px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/003.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1557" class="wp-image-1557 size-medium" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/003-213x300.jpg" alt="Page 1 of Brewster's June 26, 1985 letter to Barry Bingham regarding his Oxford master position." width="213" height="300" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/003-213x300.jpg 213w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/003-728x1024.jpg 728w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/003-768x1080.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/003-1092x1536.jpg 1092w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/003.jpg 1365w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1557" class="wp-caption-text">Page 1 of a letter from Brewster to Barry Bingham, June 26, 1985, regarding Brewster’s Oxford master position.</p></div> <div id="attachment_1558" style="width: 224px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/004.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1558" class="wp-image-1558 size-medium" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/004-214x300.jpg" alt="Page 2 of a letter from Brewster to Barry Bingham, June 26, 1985, regarding Brewster's Oxford master position." width="214" height="300" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/004-214x300.jpg 214w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/004-730x1024.jpg 730w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/004-768x1078.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/004-1094x1536.jpg 1094w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/004.jpg 1368w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1558" class="wp-caption-text">Page 2 of a letter from Brewster to Barry Bingham, June 26, 1985, regarding Brewster’s Oxford master position.</p></div> <div id="attachment_1559" style="width: 222px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/005.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1559" class="wp-image-1559 size-medium" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/005-212x300.jpg" alt="Page 3 of a letter from Brewster to Barry Bingham, June 26, 1985, regarding Brewster's Oxford master position." width="212" height="300" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/005-212x300.jpg 212w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/005-724x1024.jpg 724w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/005-768x1087.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/005-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2020/02/005.jpg 1357w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1559" class="wp-caption-text">Page 3 of a letter from Brewster to Barry Bingham, June 26, 1985, regarding Brewster’s Oxford master position.</p></div> <p>He died at the age of 69 on November 8, 1988.</p> <p>The Kingman Brewster Personal Papers include informative (but limited) material from 1940 to 1950, but primarily document the personal and professional life of Brewster as a Harvard faculty member (1950-1960) and Ambassador to Great Britain (1977-1981). The most substantive material in the collection is that created by Brewster himself. Letters, unpublished writings, speeches, and interviews, provide extensive documentation of his interests and expertise, including in the areas of the role of government; maintaining a viable center in the political opinion spectrum; American anti-trust laws; American companies doing business abroad; the role of a liberal arts higher education; Anglo-American relations; and the United States in world affairs. The documentation on Brewster as ambassador reflects the public side of his work, rather than behind-the-scenes policy making. The materials displayed herein provide examples of the substantive documentation in the collection.</p> <p>The work undertaken to arrange and describe the Kingman Brewster personal papers was supported by Henry Chauncey, 1957 B.A., and funded by many generous individuals, including a lead gift from William Lilley, 1965 Ph.D.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta"> <span class="cat-links"> <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-cat-links">Posted in</span> <a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/category/collections/" rel="category tag">Collections</a>, <a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/category/yale-history/" rel="category tag">Yale History</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-1538" class="post-1538 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-collections category-new-haven-history category-yale-history"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/the-demise-of-the-crocodile-club-a-town-gown-tragedy-at-yale/" rel="bookmark">The Demise of the Crocodile Club: A Town/Gown Tragedy at Yale</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="sep">Posted on </span><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/the-demise-of-the-crocodile-club-a-town-gown-tragedy-at-yale/" title="8:41 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2019-08-27T20:41:56+00:00">August 27, 2019</time></a><span class="by-author"> <span class="sep"> by </span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/author/bl326/" title="View all posts by bl326" rel="author">bl326</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p><em>The following post was authored by Camila Tessler, archivist in Manuscripts and Archives. All references to archival collection material are to items from the <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.2018" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">William Henry Anderson Correspondence Regarding the Crocodile Club</a> (MS 2018).</em></p> <div id="attachment_1534" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2019/07/Anderson-folder-5.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1534" class="size-medium wp-image-1534" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2019/07/Anderson-folder-5-300x225.jpg" alt="Image of William Henry Anderson letter to his father, 1858 January 9. (MS 2018, Box 1, folder 5)." width="300" height="225" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2019/07/Anderson-folder-5-300x225.jpg 300w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2019/07/Anderson-folder-5-768x576.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2019/07/Anderson-folder-5-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2019/07/Anderson-folder-5-400x300.jpg 400w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2019/07/Anderson-folder-5.jpg 1920w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1534" class="wp-caption-text">William Henry Anderson letter to his father, 1858 January 9. (MS 2018, Box 1, folder 5).</p></div> <p>On January 9, 1858, William Henry Anderson (Class of 1859) wrote to his father that the Crocodile Club, a Yale undergraduate group, was flourishing. In fact, he wrote, “I think I can safely say that [the Crocodile Club] is … the most popular club of all.” (MS 2018, Box 1, folder 5). A little more than a month later, on February 21, Anderson again wrote to his father, admitting that the faculty were recommending that the club disband. In a month’s time, how did Yale College’s “most popular club” fall so low as to be forced to disband by the faculty?</p> <p>The Crocodile Club was a popular eating club, which provided a way for students to socialize and dine together. These eating clubs still exist at other Ivy League institutions, such as Princeton, but at Yale the only modern equivalents are the senior societies. The Crocodile Club was apparently successful, racking up bills of “nearly a thousand dollars” (Box 1, folder 4), which is the rough equivalent of $30,000 in today’s money. The club appears to have been comprised of many students who could afford to both eat out and board with the other “crocodiles.”</p> <p>On the night of Feburary 9, 1858, following several nights of tension between New Haven firefighters stationed near the campus and groups of students, members of the Crocodile Club encountered a group of New Haven firemen while on their way back from dining. As an altercation between the two groups spiraled out of control, the leader among the group of firemen, a man named William Miles, was shot by one of the Yale students. (<a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/fk1hh6c79f?urlappend=%3Bseq=530" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, <em>Four Years at Yale,</em> New Haven: C.C. Chatfield & Co., 1871, pages 510-511</a>).</p> <div id="attachment_1535" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2019/07/Anderson-folder-6.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1535" class="size-medium wp-image-1535" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2019/07/Anderson-folder-6-300x225.jpg" alt="Image of Letter from William Henry Anderson to his father, 9 February 1858 (MS 2018, Box 1, folder 6)." width="300" height="225" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2019/07/Anderson-folder-6-300x225.jpg 300w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2019/07/Anderson-folder-6-768x576.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2019/07/Anderson-folder-6-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2019/07/Anderson-folder-6-400x300.jpg 400w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2019/07/Anderson-folder-6.jpg 1920w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1535" class="wp-caption-text">Letter from William Henry Anderson to his father, 9 February 1858 (MS 2018, Box 1, folder 6).</p></div> <p>William Anderson was present and wrote to his father about the incident, his arrest, and the subsequent trial. He stated in a letter dated February 19, ten days after the incident, that “suspicion of course fell upon the club and perhaps justly and we were all implicated and are as much guilty as another in the eye of the law” (Box 1, folder 6). In the same letter, Anderson went on to relate to his father that “counsel advised me not to answer anything that would show I was there … and he advised all the rest to the same”. Their refusal to testify landed the boys in jail, but only nominally. Anderson claimed that he spent most of his jail time studying and did not suffer any inconvenience, though it is not altogether clear whether this is a fact, or something added to reassure a potentially concerned parent. Anderson’s letters are rife with reassurances to his parents that everything at Yale is fine, so playing down his jail time wouldn’t be completely out of character or context.</p> <div id="attachment_1536" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2019/07/Anderson-folder-9-very-fair-verdict.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1536" class="size-medium wp-image-1536" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2019/07/Anderson-folder-9-very-fair-verdict-300x225.jpg" alt="Image of excerpt from letter from William Henry Anderson to his father following his trial, 6 March 1858 (MS 2018, Box 1, folder 9)." width="300" height="225" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2019/07/Anderson-folder-9-very-fair-verdict-300x225.jpg 300w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2019/07/Anderson-folder-9-very-fair-verdict-768x576.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2019/07/Anderson-folder-9-very-fair-verdict-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2019/07/Anderson-folder-9-very-fair-verdict-400x300.jpg 400w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2019/07/Anderson-folder-9-very-fair-verdict.jpg 1920w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1536" class="wp-caption-text">Excerpt from letter from William Henry Anderson to his father following his trial, 6 March 1858 (MS 2018, Box 1, folder 9).</p></div> <p>As the trial moved forward it quickly became apparent that justice favored gown over town. Even though Anderson clearly knew who shot Miles, he asserted that “I have the consciousness of knowing that I did not injure a person that night, not so much as a scratch. That consciousness, you know, will be worth worlds to me for if I knew that I had killed the man, even in self defense as what was done by whoever did it, I could hardly bear the thought” (Box 1, folder 8). Anderson continually refused to testify, as did the rest of the rest of the Crocodile Club group. Their silence bought them their legal innocence, as no one was sentenced to jail time. Anderson believed that it was “a very fair verdict” (Box 1, folder 9), since there were no legal consequences.</p> <p>That lack of legal punishment did not, however, free the Crocodile Club members from consequences at Yale. In a letter to his father dated March 24, almost a full month after the end of the trial, Anderson revealed that “[the faculty] talked it over till noon and there decided to separate from the college three members of the club, Carrington, Smith, and Lorichell. This separation is about equivalent to a dismissal” (Box 1, folder 11). This dismissal was accompanied by a reference to any other college of their choice, so the dismissal, while a bold action on the part of the faculty, was one with a golden parachute.</p> <p>Events where town and gown were diametrically opposed were common in the 1850s, and they are equally common today. The details of this case were so odd though, and the first-hand testimony in letters home from one of the participants so palpable, that the incident is worth exploring. Looking over historical cases such as the rise and fall of the Crocodile Club can help us to contextualize and have a clearer understanding of the relationship between Yale and New Haven over time. In this case Yale students were absolved Yale of a terrible crime through silence, and did serious damage to the town-gown relationship. We struggle with similar incidents today and can use the rise and fall of the Crocodile Club as one lens for examining accountability and justice in the ongoing, evolving relationship between the communities of Yale and New Haven.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta"> <span class="cat-links"> <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-cat-links">Posted in</span> <a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/category/collections/" rel="category tag">Collections</a>, <a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/category/new-haven-history/" rel="category tag">New Haven History</a>, <a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/category/yale-history/" rel="category tag">Yale History</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-1479" class="post-1479 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-collections category-yale-history"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/a-tale-of-two-archives-tracing-the-life-of-thomas-lawrason-riggs-10/" rel="bookmark">A Tale of Two Archives: Tracing the life of Thomas Lawrason Riggs ’10</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="sep">Posted on </span><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/a-tale-of-two-archives-tracing-the-life-of-thomas-lawrason-riggs-10/" title="8:16 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2018-10-04T20:16:01+00:00">October 4, 2018</time></a><span class="by-author"> <span class="sep"> by </span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/author/bl326/" title="View all posts by bl326" rel="author">bl326</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p><em>This is a guest post by Sarah L. Woodford, director of the <a href="https://stm.yale.edu/vincent-library" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vincent Library at Saint Thomas More</a>, the Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University.</em></p> <p><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/25021411">In his July 1983 article in <em>The Catholic Historical Review</em></a> Herbert Janick observes that Father Thomas Lawrason Riggs ’10, the first Catholic chaplain at Yale, was “both an intellectual respected for his secular accomplishments and a Catholic priest.” It then seems fitting that the two archives on campus that house his papers are Saint Thomas More, the Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University and Yale’s Manuscripts and Archives in Sterling Memorial Library. Riggs bequeathed most of his personal and professional papers to the Saint Thomas More Corporation; but those papers and personal items, particularly pertaining to his bright college years, the immediate years afterwards, and his contributions to academic scholarship were donated to Manuscripts and Archives.</p> <div id="attachment_1482" style="width: 234px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2018/10/img1-12sbwyp-e1538683609907.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1482" class="size-medium wp-image-1482" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2018/10/img1-12sbwyp-e1538683609907-224x300.jpg" alt="Photograph of T. Lawrason Riggs from Scroll and Key senior album, 1910. Call number: Yeg2 K61x 1910." width="224" height="300" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2018/10/img1-12sbwyp-e1538683609907-224x300.jpg 224w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2018/10/img1-12sbwyp-e1538683609907-768x1028.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2018/10/img1-12sbwyp-e1538683609907-765x1024.jpg 765w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2018/10/img1-12sbwyp-e1538683609907.jpg 1936w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1482" class="wp-caption-text">Photograph of T. Lawrason Riggs from Scroll and Key senior album, 1910. Call number: Yeg2 K61x 1910.</p></div> <p>Born in 1888 to the Riggs banking family of Washington, D.C., Riggs was a graduating member of Yale University’s Class of 1910. While at university, Riggs studied English literature and French, Italian, Latin, and Greek. He was both a member of Scroll and Key and the Pundit Society, as well as the president of the Yale Dramatic Society (where he met his future roommate and musical theater collaborator, Cole Porter ’13). A renowned poet on campus, first as a contributor to the <em>Yale Literary Magazine</em> and then as the publication’s editor during his senior year, he penned the official class song for the class of 1910.</p> <p>After Yale, Riggs pursued graduate work at Harvard University under the direction of Barrett Wendell. There he roomed with Dean Acheson ’15 (a future secretary of state in the administration of President Harry S. Truman) and Cole Porter (a future popular composer and entertainer), who were both pursuing law degrees. Neither Riggs nor Porter finished their Harvard degrees, instead they focused on the writing of <em>See America First</em>, a Broadway show financed by Riggs and pronounced a flop by New York critics in March 1916.</p> <p>World War I brought Riggs back to the Yale. In the summer of 1917, months after the United States declared war on Germany, the twenty-nine-year-old joined The Yale Mobile Hospital Unit as a translator. After leaving the Yale Unit and gaining a foreign-language specialist position assigned to military intelligence in Paris, were he also acquired the rank of first lieutenant, Riggs decided to enter into the Catholic priesthood. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1922 and after a trip to Europe to consult with the Catholic chaplains at Cambridge and Oxford, took up residency at Yale.</p> <div id="attachment_1483" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2018/10/img2-2ju1ht1.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1483" class="size-medium wp-image-1483" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2018/10/img2-2ju1ht1-300x225.jpeg" alt="One of the “designs” Riggs bequeathed to Saint Thomas More, the Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University, circa 1938. The Fr. Riggs Papers, Saint Thomas More." width="300" height="225" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2018/10/img2-2ju1ht1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2018/10/img2-2ju1ht1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2018/10/img2-2ju1ht1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2018/10/img2-2ju1ht1-400x300.jpeg 400w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1483" class="wp-caption-text">One of the “designs” Riggs bequeathed to Saint Thomas More, the Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University, circa 1938. The Fr. Riggs Papers, Saint Thomas More.</p></div> <p>Riggs spent his tenure as Catholic chaplain entertaining young Catholic creatives at his lavish home on Whitney Avenue, building what is now Saint Thomas More Chapel, and pursuing a book project about Joan of Arc. His book <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1776700"><em>Saving Angel: The Truth about Joan of Arc and the Church</em></a>, was published posthumously in 1944 by The Bruce Publishing Company of Milwaukee. Riggs died unexpectedly of a heart attack on April 26, 1943. He was fifty-five. In his will, drawn up in November 1938, he bequeathed all his “papers, books, correspondence, records and designs” that concern or have to do with Saint Thomas More, to the Saint Thomas More Corporation. All other papers, books, and correspondence that did not interest the Corporation, were to go to Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University.</p> <p>Among the items Riggs bequeathed to Manuscripts and Archives were two Scroll and Key senior albums, from 1909 and 1910. The former from his brother, Francis, who graduated the year before him, and the latter from Riggs’s senior year. Both albums are leather-bound and contain black and white photos of the society’s senior members with their signatures underneath. Riggs’s 1910 album also contains a snapshot of the secret society’s ivy-covered tomb in the album’s last frame.</p> <div id="attachment_1484" style="width: 235px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2018/10/img3-1a7imod-e1538683754264.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1484" class="size-medium wp-image-1484" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2018/10/img3-1a7imod-e1538683754264-225x300.jpg" alt="Recipes to prepare for injured soldiers, part of Riggs’s training for the Yale Mobile Hospital Unit, 1917. Thomas Lawrason Riggs Papers (MS 704), Box 1, Folder 9. Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library." width="225" height="300" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2018/10/img3-1a7imod-e1538683754264-225x300.jpg 225w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2018/10/img3-1a7imod-e1538683754264-768x1024.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1484" class="wp-caption-text">Recipes to prepare for injured soldiers, part of Riggs’s training for the Yale Mobile Hospital Unit, 1917. Thomas Lawrason Riggs Papers (MS 704), Box 1, Folder 9. Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.</p></div> <p>Riggs also donated a collection of his notes and papers that now make up the <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0704" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Riggs Papers</a>. Items of note include his typed manuscript of <em>Saving Angel</em> and a notebook from 1917 that contains notes from his training for the Yale Mobile Hospital Unit. The notebook is blank in the middle and its back portion contains notes in pencil dated July 18-21. These notes instruct on how to identify contagious diseases, bandage various sprains, set broken bones, and prepare meals for the injured (poached eggs and cocoa are two items on the menu). There is also a particularly sobering section that describes the different sorts of poisonous gas a soldier could inhale, how to identify them, and which ones would prove fatal.</p> <p>As Saint Thomas More, the Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University celebrates eighty years in October 2018, the community once more considers its beginnings and the priest at the center of those beginnings. Riggs was a chaplain and a Yale man—how appropriate that like his life, the archives that continue to keep his memory reflect this as well.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta"> <span class="cat-links"> <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-cat-links">Posted in</span> <a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/category/collections/" rel="category tag">Collections</a>, <a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/category/yale-history/" rel="category tag">Yale History</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-1414" class="post-1414 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-collections category-yale-history"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/an-1802-petition-on-dining-at-yale-college/" rel="bookmark">An 1802 Petition on Dining at Yale College</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="sep">Posted on </span><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/an-1802-petition-on-dining-at-yale-college/" title="9:00 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2017-07-03T21:00:27+00:00">July 3, 2017</time></a><span class="by-author"> <span class="sep"> by </span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/author/bl326/" title="View all posts by bl326" rel="author">bl326</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <div id="attachment_1419" style="width: 235px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/07/petition_page1-2ftxkyp.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1419" class="wp-image-1419 size-medium" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/07/petition_page1-2ftxkyp-e1499114212432-225x300.jpg" alt="Petition regarding Commons, page 1, circa 1800-1801, Bates Family Papers (MS 65), Box 1, folder 5" width="225" height="300" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/07/petition_page1-2ftxkyp-e1499114212432-225x300.jpg 225w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/07/petition_page1-2ftxkyp-e1499114212432-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/07/petition_page1-2ftxkyp-e1499114212432.jpg 1512w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1419" class="wp-caption-text">Petition regarding Commons, page 1, circa 1800-1801, Bates Family Papers (MS 65), Box 1, folder 5</p></div> <p>In a <a href="http://schwarzman.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/HistoryCommons.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">December 1995 “Old Yale” column from the <em>Yale Alumni Magazine</em></a>, Chief Research Archivist Judy Schiff traces the history of dissatisfaction with dining facilities, service, and fare all the way back to the opening of the first Yale College building in New Haven in 1718. Sometime in 1800-1801, more than two and a half decades before the infamous Bread and Butter Rebellion of 1828, four members of the Class of 1802 sent a petition to Yale President Timothy Dwight protesting against the immoral and wicked behavior of the kitchen staff. The petition survives in Box 1, folder 5 of the <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0065" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bates Family Papers (MS 65)</a> in Manuscripts and Archives. Herewith the text of the petition:</p> <blockquote><p>To the President of Yale College.</p> <p>Sir,</p> <p>Sensible of the important purposes for which the Commons was originally designed, and convinced of the salutary consequences of which they might still be productive, we cannot but regret the unfortunate perversion of so valuable an institution.</p> <p>With these impressions, and with the presumption that the President is ignorant of the conduct of those employed in the Hall, we beg leave respectfully to remonstrate, and submit to his consideration the following facts.</p> <ul> <li>1st. We have satisfactory proof that they have unwarrantably converted to their own use sundry articles belonging to the kitchen.</li> <li>2d .They have served up a part of our provision, in a more palatable manner, which, for a pecuniary reward, they have appropriated to the use of individuals.</li> <li>3d. They have continually harboured the low, riotous, and immoral inhabitants of this town.</li> <li>4th. They are destitute of cleanliness.</li> <li>5th. By deserting the hall, for the purpose of prosecuting their own private, they have shamefully neglected the duties of their occupation.</li> <li>6th. They have in the presence of the more young and inexperienced students, traduced the character of the Authority.</li> <li>7th. They admit into the hall, to the exclusion of others, those who will furnish them with spiritous liquors.</li> <li>8th. They have appropriated to their own use much more than an equitable portion of the better provisions provided by the steward.</li> <li>9th. They are notorious for excessive drinking.</li> <li>10th. They are openly profane.</li> <li>11th. They constantly violate the sabbath, by admitting into their company disreputable persons, and by diverting themselves with ludicrous and improper amusements.</li> </ul> <p>It is therefore the unanimous request of the Junior Class that for these and many other improprieties, the President would take into consideration the conduct of the Cooks and make such regulations as he shall think proper.</p> <p>Isaac C. Bates, Wm. F. Brainard, Jeremiah Evarts, Junius Smith, Committee in behalf of the Class</p></blockquote> <div id="attachment_1420" style="width: 235px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/07/petition_page2-1yge4s5.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1420" class="wp-image-1420 size-medium" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/07/petition_page2-1yge4s5-e1499114265380-225x300.jpg" alt="Petition regarding Commons, page 2, circa 1800-1801, Bates Family Papers (MS 65), Box 1, folder 5" width="225" height="300" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/07/petition_page2-1yge4s5-e1499114265380-225x300.jpg 225w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/07/petition_page2-1yge4s5-e1499114265380-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/07/petition_page2-1yge4s5-e1499114265380.jpg 1512w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1420" class="wp-caption-text">Petition regarding Commons, page 2, circa 1800-1801, Bates Family Papers (MS 65), Box 1, folder 5</p></div> <p>The “Commons” in question in the petition was the first separately standing Commons building on Yale’s Old Campus. It was built in 1782 as a dining hall, or Commons, and designed by Jeremiah Atwater. It’s location was behind South Middle College (today’s Connecticut Hall) and behind the Chapel Street location where Street Hall was eventually constructed in 1864, approximately in the present location of the southern end of McClellan Hall. It served as the dining commons for Yale College students until 1820, when a larger Commons building was constructed nearby. From 1820-1888 the building was used as a chemical laboratory and known as the <a href="http://images.library.yale.edu/madid/oneItem.aspx?id=1771585&q=old%20laboratory&q1=&q2=&qc1=&qc2=&qf1=&qf2=&qn=&qo=&qm=&qs=&sid=&qx=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Old Laboratory</a>, and from 1885-1887 also served as the first home for the <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1223" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Yale Cooperative Society</a> (which after 1893 became the Yale Cooperative Corporation). The building was demolished in 1888, contemporaneously with the construction of the new <a href="http://images.library.yale.edu/madid/oneItem.aspx?id=1772593&q=kent%20chemical%20laboratory&q1=&q2=&qc1=&qc2=&qf1=&qf2=&qn=&qo=&qm=&qs=&sid=&qx=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kent Chemical Laboratory</a> building across High St. from the Old Library (now Dwight Hall) at the corner of Library St. (on a site now occupied by Jonathan Edwards College).</p> <p>And what of the four members of the Class of 1802 selected by their classmates to petition the Yale College president seeking some kind of redress for the perceived abuses of the Commons staff?</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_C._Bates" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Isaac Chapman Bates</a> (January 23, 1779-March 16, 1845) practiced law in Northampton, Massachusetts, and later served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1827-1835) and the U.S. Senate (1841-1845) representing Massachusetts.</li> <li>William F. Brainard practiced law in his hometown of New London, Connecticut.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Evarts" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jeremiah F. Evarts</a> (February 3, 1781-May 10, 1831) also was a lawyer, served for many years as treasurer then secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He was one of the leading opponents of Indian removal, and engaged in lobbying efforts attempting unsuccessfully to defeat the Indian Removal Act of 1830.</li> <li>Junius Smith (1780-1853) also practiced law, and later in his life was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_Steam_Navigation_Company" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a determined supporter of efforts to build a fleet of transatlantic steam ships</a>.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta"> <span class="cat-links"> <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-cat-links">Posted in</span> <a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/category/collections/" rel="category tag">Collections</a>, <a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/category/yale-history/" rel="category tag">Yale History</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-1401" class="post-1401 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-collections category-events category-yale-history"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/winners-of-the-2017-manuscripts-and-archives-diane-kaplan-memorial-senior-essay-prizes/" rel="bookmark">Winners of the 2017 Manuscripts and Archives Diane Kaplan Memorial Senior Essay Prizes</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="sep">Posted on </span><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/winners-of-the-2017-manuscripts-and-archives-diane-kaplan-memorial-senior-essay-prizes/" title="7:09 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2017-05-04T19:09:31+00:00">May 4, 2017</time></a><span class="by-author"> <span class="sep"> by </span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/author/bl326/" title="View all posts by bl326" rel="author">bl326</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <div id="attachment_1406" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/05/poster-1s9f5ne.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1406" class="size-medium wp-image-1406" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/05/poster-1s9f5ne-300x225.jpg" alt="Poster for 2017 senior essay contest" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/05/poster-1s9f5ne-300x225.jpg 300w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/05/poster-1s9f5ne-400x300.jpg 400w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/05/poster-1s9f5ne.jpg 445w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1406" class="wp-caption-text">Poster for 2017 senior essay contest</p></div> <p>Manuscripts and Archives is pleased to announce the winners of the two 2017 Manuscripts and Archives Diane Kaplan Memorial Senior Essay Prizes. The winners each will receive a certificate and a check for $500.00 at their residential college ceremonies on Commencement Day, Monday, May 22, 2017. Prize-winning essays are also published in EliScholar, the Yale University Library’s digital platform for scholarly publishing. Additional information about the prizes is available on our<a href="http://guides.library.yale.edu/MSSAPrize"> MSSA Prizes website</a>.</p> <div id="attachment_1404" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/05/pajka_tP-1ad46ib.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1404" class="size-medium wp-image-1404" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/05/pajka_tP-1ad46ib-300x217.jpg" alt="Title page of Sarah Pajka's senior essay, "Doctors, Death, and Denial," 3 April 2017" width="300" height="217" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/05/pajka_tP-1ad46ib-300x217.jpg 300w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/05/pajka_tP-1ad46ib-768x556.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/05/pajka_tP-1ad46ib-1024x742.jpg 1024w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/05/pajka_tP-1ad46ib-414x300.jpg 414w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/05/pajka_tP-1ad46ib.jpg 1472w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1404" class="wp-caption-text">Title page of Sarah Pajka’s senior essay, “Doctors, Death, and Denial,” 3 April 2017</p></div> <p>The prize for an outstanding senior essay on a topic relating to Yale is presented to <strong>Sarah E. Pajka (Morse College)</strong> for her essay <a href="http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/mssa_yale_history/8/"><em>Doctors, Death, and Denial: The Origins of Hospice Care in 20th Century America</em></a>. Her senior essay project was advised by Professor Naomi Rogers of the <a href="http://hshm.yale.edu/">Program in the History of Science and Medicine</a>. Sarah’s essay explores the emergence of the need for hospice care in the United States in the rise of institutionalized medicine and the conundrum presented by “the patient who could not be healed.” Sarah used the <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1659">Florence and Henry Wald Papers (MS 1659)</a> in Manuscripts and Archives, among other sources, to explore the pivotal role of Yale School of Nursing Dean Florence Wald in the development of Connecticut Hospice, which was the first modern hospice facility in America when it opened in 1980.</p> <div id="attachment_1403" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/05/kim_tP-2kx6u7p.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1403" class="size-medium wp-image-1403" src="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/05/kim_tP-2kx6u7p-300x178.jpg" alt="Title page of Sarah Kim's senior essay, "Of a Healthy Constitution," 3 April 2017" width="300" height="178" srcset="https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/05/kim_tP-2kx6u7p-300x178.jpg 300w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/05/kim_tP-2kx6u7p-768x456.jpg 768w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/05/kim_tP-2kx6u7p-1024x608.jpg 1024w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/05/kim_tP-2kx6u7p-500x297.jpg 500w, https://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/files/2017/05/kim_tP-2kx6u7p.jpg 1472w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-1403" class="wp-caption-text">Title page of Sarah Kim’s senior essay, “Of a Healthy Constitution,” 3 April 2017</p></div> <p>The prize for an outstanding senior essay based significantly on research done in Manuscripts and Archives is presented to <strong>Sarah D. Kim (Jonathan Edwards College)</strong> for her essay <em><a href="http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/mssa_collections/9/">Of a Healthy Constitution: Socialized Medicine Between the Triumphs of Social Security and Medicare</a></em>. Her senior essay adviser was Profession Jennifer Klein of the <a href="http://history.yale.edu/">Department of History</a>. Sarah used, among other sources, the <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1039">Isidore Sydney Falk Papers (MS 1039)</a> in Manuscripts and Archives to explore the debates in the United States over the controversial issue of national health insurance between the late 1930s and the early 1960s. She uses Falk’s activism on national health care as a lens through which to explore the impact of Cold War politics on the debate.</p> <p>Congratulations to both Sarahs for their outstanding senior essay accomplishments! Thanks as well to the 15 other members of the Yale College Class of 2017 who submitted senior essays for consideration in this competition. 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