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标  题: Yale and New Haven
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                                     Yale
                                      and
                                   New Haven

   Chartered in 1701 as the Collegiate School, where young men "might be
   instructed in the arts and sciences ... and fitted up for Publick
   employment both in Church and Civil State," Yale was named for Elihu
   Yale, a London merchant who helped the fledgling school with a modest
   donation. A medical school was added in 1810 and throughout the
   nineteenth century the breadth of the curriculum continued to expand.
   The Department of Philosophy and the Arts was organized in 1847 and
   with the appointment of its first Dean in 1892 became the Graduate
   School. The first three Ph.D. degrees in the United States were
   awarded by Yale in 1861. Yale formally became a University in 1887.
   Women were admitted as undergraduates in Yale College in 1969,
   although there had already been significant numbers of women as
   students in the Graduate and Professional schools since early in the
   twentieth century. (Yale University Home Page).
   The University is located in the center of the City of New Haven,
   which has a population of about 125,000. Together with its neighboring
   cities and close-by suburbs, New Haven forms the nucleus of a
   metropolitan area of about 400,000. On a larger scale it is a major
   transportation center, part of the east coast megalopolis that extends
   from Washington to Boston. There is convenient rail service that takes
   one to New York City in less than 2 hours. Boston is less than three
   hours away.
   Since its founding more than 350 years ago, New Haven has undergone
   several historic transformations, developing from a seaport village
   into a manufacturing center and then into a city whose economy is
   based on communications, retail and wholesale trade, services,
   high-technology, health-related industries, and higher education.
   Although Yale is the city's largest employer it would be very
   misleading to think of New Haven as just another "college town."
   As with any major university Yale offers many intellectual activities
   beyond those associated with formal classes. The number of special
   lectures, seminars and colloquia listed in the weekly bulletin can be
   overwhelming both as to quantity and breadth. The arts play a
   particularly strong role in this heady atmosphere. Included are
   theatre, music, film and fine arts.
   The Yale Repertory Theatre (part of the Drama school) and the Long
   Wharf Theatre both have achieved national recognition as important
   regional theatres. In addition there are productions by students from
   the Drama School at the University Theatre and by touring companies at
   the Shubert Performing Arts Center.
   The New Haven Symphony Orchestra is the fourth oldest in the country
   and plays at Woolsey Hall on the Yale campus. There are two other
   symphony orchestras that perform regularly as well as several choral
   groups. The Music school offers many student recitals and sponsors
   visiting chamber music ensembles. The New Haven Coliseum is the scene
   of numerous rock concerts and Toad's Place is well known for its high
   quality offerings.
   There are several film series presented throughout the year featuring
   classic movies as well as more popular recent films. In addition the
   York Square Theatre shows contemporary art and foreign films.
   The Yale University Art Gallery is considered to be one of the top
   twenty-five art museums in the country. It is the oldest university
   art gallery in the Western hemisphere. The Yale Center for British Art
   houses one of the most comprehensive collections of British art to be
   found under one roof. In the category of museums (although not of fine
   arts) there is the Peabody Museum of Natural History which is a
   showcase for Yale's distinguished natural history and anthropological
   collections.
   For those who wish to take seriously the slogan of the Yale athletics
   department, "Mind and Body in Balance," there is the Payne Whitney
   Gymnasium, which until the advent of domed stadiums was the largest
   building devoted exclusively to athletics in the world. Its features
   include two swimming pools, rowing tanks, weight rooms, aerobics
   classes, cardiovascular machines, squash and racquet ball courts,
   running tracks and basketball courts. Other facilities include an
   indoor ice rink (designed by Eero Saarinen and affectionately referred
   the as the Yale Whale), indoor (as well as outdoor) tennis courts and
   many athletic fields. A graduate student softball league operates in
   the summer. The Yale Corinthian Yacht Club enables one to take
   advantage of New Haven's location on Long Island Sound. The Yale Golf
   Club at the west end of the city is one of the finest university
   courses in the country.
   For those who would rather be spectators, in addition to the usual
   melange of college sports, there is AA professional baseball as
   practiced by the New Haven Ravens at the newly refurbished Yale field.
   Each summer there are several tennis tournaments held at the Yale
   Tennis Center, culminating in August with the world-class Volvo
   tournament.
   In the area of food, New Haven claims to be the birthplace of the
   American style hamburger (as still offered by Louis' Lunch) as well as
   the American version of pizza (often locally referred to as apizza).
   In addition to legendary places such as Mory's (which serves as a kind
   of informal faculty club) there is a plethora of restaurants offering
   food of almost every imaginable variety and there are occasional
   street fairs where one can taste it all.

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