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New Haven is the best city in the world |
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New Haven is awesome! |
| Date Posted: |
01/22/2000 |
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As a former resident of Glastonbury, Connecticut (outside Hartford), I feel
it necessary to respond to several posts over the past few months which
concerned the city of New Haven, Connecticut and the University therein. It
seems as if people here are very unfamiliar with the State, and there were
a few other questions that I've responded to as well.
Yes, Yale established the nation's first graduate school of arts and
sciences, in 1846, which awarded the first Ph.D. in 1861, and the first
Ph.D. to an African-American in 1876. Even though it awarded the first
Ph.D. and medical degree in America (in 1720), I would hesitate to call it
the nation's first university. U-Penn actually founded the first graduate
school (a medical school), and might be considered the first. Harvard,
founded in 1636, is typically considered the first even though Yale
developed more rapidly and has historically been more prestigious than
Harvard. The first Chinese citizen to graduate from a Western university
graduated from Yale in 1854. Yale was founded in 1701 and has been in New
Haven since 1717. The City of New Haven, grid-planned in 1638, was the
first planned city in the United States.
New Haven also invented the first pizza, hamburger, polio vaccine, lyme
disease vaccine, telephone company, telephone switchboard, public
tree-planting program, chemotherapy, scientific school, artificial
heart-lung machine (on display in the Smithsonian), professor of
paleontology, scientific journal, medical journal of case reports, field of
biochemistry, calzone, american football game, intercollegiate basketball
game, university art museum, university school of art, steamboat,
submarine, interchangable parts factory, cotton gin, automatic revolver,
lollipop, corset industry, assembly line, pediatric medicine course,
ribozymes (RNA-catalase), fraternal Catholic mens' association (KofC),
planetarium, hybrid corn, acidophilus milk, auto self-starter, football
shoes, football dummy, batting cage, and figure skating championship (1914)
in America. All of this for a small city with 125,000 residents.
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