Yale:
A Short History
Books About Yale
Modern books about Yale
Yale: A History
by Brooks Mather Kelley, Yale University Press, 1974
A balanced, informative one-volume history
School of the Prophets: Yale College, 1701-1740
by Richard Warch, Yale University Press, 1973
Best study of the beginnings
The Separation of College and State: Columbia, Dartmouth,
Harvard and Yale, 1776-1 876
by John S. Whitehead, Yale University Press, 1973
How four famous colleges became private or independent
after semi-public beginnings
Profiles and Portraits of Yale University Presidents
by Reuben A. Holden, Bond-Wheelwright Co., 1968
Biographical studies of seventeen presidents and their
presidencies by the devoted University Secretary
Yale: A Pictorial History
by Reuben A. Holden, Yale University Press, 1967
The buildings and scenes of old Yale
Yale College: An Educational History, 1871-1921
by George Wilson Pierson, Yale University Press, 1952
Yale: The University College, 1921-1937
by George Wilson Pierson, Yale University Press, 1955
Seventy-five: A Study of a Generation in Transition
Edited by the Yale Daily News, 1953
Interpretive topical essays by representatives of the
administration, the faculty and distinguished alumni
The Yale Scene
by Samuel Chamberlain and Robert Dudley French,
Yale University Press, 195O
The classic photographic study of Yale architecture at
neo-gothic apogee.
Alma Mater: the Gothic Age of the American College
by Henry Seidel Canby, Farrar & Rinehart, 1936
Reflective and illuminating recreation of our colleges at the
turn of the century, based on experiences and observations
of Yale College and the Sheffield Scientific School
The Memorial Quadrangle: a book about Yale
by Robert Dudley French, Yale University Press, 1929
James Gamble Rogers' architectural masterpiece - and the
Yale Worthies it commemorates
Earlier classics
Four Years at Yale, by a graduate of '69
by Lyman H. Bagg, Charles C. Chatfield Co., 1871
Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale
with Annals of the College History
by Franklin Bowditch Dexter, 6 vols.,
Henry Holt & Co., 1885-1912
The Ways of Yale in the consulship of Plancus
by Henry Augustin Beers, Henry Holt & Co., 1895;
Yale University Press, 1923
Yale: Her Campus, Class-Rooms and Athletics
by Lewis Sheldon Welch and Walter Camp,
L.C. Page & Co., I 899
Memories of Yale Life and Men, 1845 -1889
by Timothy Dwight, Dodd Mead & Co., 1903
Stover at Yale
by Owen Johnson, S.S. McClure Co., 1911
Introduction by Kingman Brewster,Jr.,
Collier Books, 1968
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