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Havenmeyer was referring to the divide between the Yale College Academic Department (the Ac School) and the Sheffield Scientific School (the Sheff School). The two coexisted as two separate entities until 1945, but remnants of the “Sheff” School are visible throughout contemporary Yale, from the academic curriculum to secret societies.
Benjamin Silliman and the Sheffield School 105 This memorandum on the science laboratories stands as a highly sig nificant milestone in the history of higher education in the United States. It recognized that since a larger proportion of the country's population earned their livelihood by farming, science should be applied to agri
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History of the Sheffield Scientific Schoolof Yale University, 1846–1922. By Prof. Russell H. Chittenden. Vol. 1. Pp. ix + 298 + 36 plates. Vol.
Sheffield Scientific School was founded in 1847 as a school of Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut for instruction in science and engineering. Originally named the Yale Scientific School, it was renamed in 1861 in honor of Joseph E. Sheffield, the railroad executive. The school was incorporated in 1871.
The School's functions were absorbed by the Graduate School in 1956. From the description of Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, records, 1846-1969 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702170018. From the guide to the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, class records, 1908-1974, (Manuscripts and Archives)
The Sheffield School had its origins in the opening of a new Department of Philosophy and the Arts at Yale in 1846 (the same year Harvard opened its Lawrence Scientific School). Six years later, the department awarded the first PhB degrees to seven men who had completed the three-year applied science course.
