1. Yale University is a large research institution chartered in 1701, making it the third-oldest institution of higher education in the US.
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7. Yale University has numerous athletic facilities, including the Yale Bowl, located at The Walter Camp Field athletic complex, and the Payne Whitney Gymnasium, the second-largest indoor athletic complex in the world.
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11. Yale University described Calhoun as "a notable political theorist, a vice president to two different US presidents, a secretary of war and of state, and a congressman and senator representing South Carolina".
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12. Yale University is the largest taxpayer and employer in the City of New Haven, and has often buoyed the city's economy and communities.
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14. In 2008, Yale University purchased the 136-acre former Bayer Pharmaceutical campus in West Haven, Connecticut, the buildings of which are now used as laboratory and research space.
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19. Yale University established the "Yale System" of teaching, with few lectures and fewer exams, and strengthened the full-time faculty system; he created the graduate-level Yale School of Nursing and the Psychiatry Department, and built numerous new buildings.
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20. Yale University bested President Noah Porter, who disliked social science and wanted Yale to lock into its traditions of classical education.
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21. Yale University was swept up by the great intellectual movements of the period—the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment—due to the religious and scientific interests of presidents Thomas Clap and Ezra Stiles.
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