Yale University
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Yale University was founded in 1701 as the Collegiate Academy in the home of Abraham Pierson, its aboriginal rector, in Killingworth, Connecticut. In 1716 the academy confused to New Haven and, with the acceptable allowance by Elihu Yale of nine bales of goods, 417 books, and a account and accoutrements of King George I, was renamed Yale College in 1718.