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About Us. Welcome to the official website for JE, Yale’s oldest residential college. Below is information about college history, college activities, and the people who work to make JE the unique, exciting place that it is.
Jonathan Edwards College (informally JE) is a residential college at Yale University. It is named for theologian and minister Jonathan Edwards, a 1720 graduate of Yale College. JE's residential quadrangle was the first to be completed in Yale's residential college system, and was opened to undergraduates in 1933.
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On behalf of the upper-level students, alumni, fellows, and staff of Jonathan Edwards College, we welcome you to a place that will shelter and uphold you for four years and become a part of your character for life. Congratulations on being placed in the best college at Yale!
History. In 1931, University administration borrowed a housing idea from Oxford and Cambridge, the two leading British Universities. The result was a development plan that forever changed the face of Yale College: the Residential College System.
After a rigorous schooling at home, he entered Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut, at the age of 13. He was graduated in 1720 but remained at New Haven for two years, studying divinity. After a brief New York pastorate (1722–23), he received the M.A. degree in 1723; during most of 1724–26 he was a tutor at Yale.
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Apr 21, 2022 · New heads of college named at Davenport, Jonathan Edwards | YaleNews. The appointment of Anjelica Gonzalez as the next head of Davenport College and Paul North as the next head of Jonathan Edwards College was announced Thursday. By Jim Shelton. April 21, 2022. Anjelica Gonzalez and Paul North.
