True-blue Elihu, We named Yale
after you
Soon as you came through upon a
handsome scale.
What a lot of light and verity
He bequeathed to all posterity! . . .
Yale song
The life that plump, periwigged and pecunious Elihu Yale had lived by the time (1718) he dispatched a gift of £562 worth of goods to the struggling colonial college in New Haven, Conn, was not by any means all light and verity. Yalemen have long suspected this about the onetime Governor of Madras. But being pretty true blue themselves, most have followed the advice of Historian Robert Dudley French, '10, that "loyal sons...
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