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Yale University

Yale University
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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