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Yale University History
Yale celebrated its 300th anniversary in 2001. However, the roots can be traced back even further. In the 1640s，colonial clergymen had been suggesting the establishment of a college in order to train ministers, preserve the tradition of European liberal education, and lay leadership there in the New World. Finally, on October 9, 1701, An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School was passed by the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut. Thereafter, a group of ten Congregationalist ministers, each of whom carried his private books, met in the study of Reverend Samuel Russell in Branford, Connecticut, put the altogether 40 books on a desk and made the solemn oath: I donate these books for the establishment of the School. It is said that in this way Yale was built up, and from then on books have played a very important role in Yale culture because they represent the spirit of the school. The group is now called "the Founders"，and it is notable that they were all Harvard alumni, which suggests some linksbetween the two oldest universities in the United States.
2001年是耶魯大學(xué)的300周年校慶。然而，它的歷史可以追溯得更遠(yuǎn)。早在17世紀(jì) 40年代，殖民地的教士們就建議成立一所學(xué)院，用以培訓(xùn)牧師、維持歐洲的自由教育傳統(tǒng)，并在新世界建立統(tǒng)治地位。終于，康乃狄格殖民地法院于1701年10月9日通過(guò)了《自由建立大學(xué)學(xué)院法案》。之后，10位基督教公、理會(huì)教士在康乃狄格州之（位于紐黑文附近的）布蘭佛小鎮(zhèn)的塞謬爾·拉塞爾教士的書(shū)房中相聚，每個(gè)人把帶來(lái)的共40本藏書(shū)放在桌上，并鄭重地宣誓：我為大學(xué)的創(chuàng)建而獻(xiàn)上這些書(shū)。據(jù)說(shuō)，耶魯大學(xué)就這樣成立 了，從此書(shū)籍在耶魯文化中扮演著至關(guān)重要的角色，因其代表了耶魯?shù)慕ㄐ＞?。這10位教士，現(xiàn)在被公認(rèn)為耶魯?shù)膭?chuàng)始人。值得注意的是，他們都是來(lái)自哈佛的校友， 這也昭示了這兩所美國(guó) 最古老的大學(xué)之間有著千絲萬(wàn)縷的聯(lián)系。
