Yale, Skull and Bones, and the beginnings of Johns Hopkins

YALE IN THE 19TH CENTURY

During the 19th century, Yale College was an academic powerhouse. Having celebrated its centennial in the first year of the new century, the college was transforming itself from a regional New England school whose main function was the education of young men for the Congregational ministry to a dynamic national school whose new function was to train the leaders of the expanding, dynamic America that sprung into being in that...