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Yale University, Connecticut

Yale University, Connecticut
Chartered in 1701, Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, is one of the oldest and most highly acclaimed universities in the United States. It has a residential college system modeled after England’s Cambridge and Oxford universities. The towering Harkness Hall, shown here, houses a 54-bell carillon, one of the largest in the world.
Michael Marsland/Yale University
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Colonial America, Life in; Public Education in the United States; Colleges and Universities; Connecticut; Yale University
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