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合肥晚报 Yale University is located in historic New Haven Connecticutaport city with a population of 125000 about 120kilometersnortheast of New York City and 240 kilometers southwestof Boston.Yale's roots can be traced back to the 1640s whencolonialclergymen led an effort to establish a college in New Haventopreserve the tradition of European liberal education in theNewWorld. In 1718 the school was renamed ″Yale College″ ingratitudeto the Welsh merchant Elihu Yale who had donated theproceeds fromthe sale of nine bales of goods together with 417books and aportrait of King George I. Founded in 1701 theUniversity consistsof twelve schools Yale College the four-yearundergraduateschool the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciencesand tenprofessional schools. Yale College the heart of theUniversityprovides instruction in the liberal arts and sciences.More than2000 undergraduate courses are offered each year byoversixty-five departments and programs forming a curriculumofremarkable breadth and depth. The faculty is dedicatedtoundergraduate teaching a commitment for which Yale has longbeenwell known. Many of Yale's most distinguished professorsteachintroductory-level courses. Yale has matured into one of the world's great universities.Its11000 students come from all fifty American states and fromover110 countries. The 2000-mr faculty is a richly diverse groupofmen and women who are leaders in their respective fields.Thecentral campus now covers 170 acres 69 hectares stretchingfromthe Nursing School in downtown New Haven to tree-shadedresidentialneighborhoods around the Divinity School. Yale's 225buildingsinclude contributions from distinguished architects ofevery periodin its history. Styles range from New England Colonialto HighVictorian Gothic from Moorish Revival to contemporary.Yale'sbuildings towers lawns courtyards walkways gates andarchescomprise what one architecture critic has called ″themostbeautiful urban campus in America.″ Yale is in the midst ofthelargest investment in its facilities since the 1930s. A newSchoolof Art complex has opened and new science andenvironmentallaboratories as well as a new athletic center andstudentresidence have been erected. There have been majorrenovations ofboth historic academic buildings and theundergraduate residentialcolleges. In the decade ahead theUniversity will invest an equalamount in facility improvements forthe benefit of students andscholars alike. | |||||||