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Throwback Thursday: passing the plate for Yale

By Mark Alden Branch ’86 | 4:41am November 12 2026

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Among the documents that the university brought out for display during its 325th birthday celebration was this artifact of 18th-century fundraising: a proclamation from the governor of the Connecticut colony, instructing citizens that a collection would be taken at churches throughout the colony to fund a house for the Yale College rector (the head of the college).

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