Timothy Dwight College

Yale_Residential_College_Infobox
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name = Timothy Dwight College
motto_Latin = Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.
motto_English = Someday, perhaps, it will be pleasant to remember even these things.
named_for = Timothy Dwight
year_established = 1933
colors = Red, silver
master = Robert Thompson
dean = John Loge
undergraduates = 400
nickname = TDers
location = 345 Temple Street
sister_college = Leverett House
homepage = http://www.yale.edu/td

Timothy Dwight College, commonly abbreviated and referred to as "TD", is a residential college at Yale University named after two university presidents, Timothy Dwight IV and Timothy Dwight V. It was built in 1935, at a cost of $2 million, and renovated in 2001-2. TD was designed by James Gamble Rogers in the American Federal style popular during the younger Timothy Dwight's presidency. The college was originally built to house 180 students, plus a number of fellows. Intramural sports played an important part in students' lives from the start, and TD captured its first of many Tyng Cups (awarded to the residential college with the best overall intramural performance) in 1937. With 11 Tyng Cup awards to date, TD is currently tied with Pierson College for the lead in this category. While recent TD intramural teams have been among the top few at Yale, TD has consistently been bested by its neighbor and rival, Silliman College, which won the Tyng Cup in 2006, 2007, and most recently, in 2008.

The college's mascot is the Lion. Frequently cited as the motto of the college is "Ashé," which means "We make it happen" in Yoruba. Ashé was brought into usage by the current Master, Robert Thompson (often just "Master T"). The college's official motto, appearing on the college crest, is a quotation from the Aeneid (I, 203), when Aeneas seeks to comfort his men as they embark upon an arduous journey to Italy: "Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit". This translates approximately to, "Someday, perhaps, it will be pleasant to remember even these things."

The Timothy Dwight fight song, often sung "en masse" at The Game, is the most enthusiastically vulgar of all the residential colleges: "Ring the bell, ring the bell! God damn, fuck, hell! Horseshit, assbite! Nobody's better than Timothy Dwight!"

Timothy Dwight has a sister college at Harvard called Leverett House. At the annual Harvard-Yale football game (known as The Game), students from Timothy Dwight and Leverett will host each other depending on the site of that year's Game.

Coat of arms

In heraldic language, the coat of arms may be described as "Argent, a lion passant above a cross crosslet fitchy gules; in a chief gules a crescent silver". The arms were likely invented by Jacob Hurd, [ [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~silversmiths/makers/silversmiths/14929.htm Jacob Hurd ] ] a Boston silversmith, who engraved them on a tankard which he made in 1725 for the grandparents of the elder Timothy Dwight.

Notable alumni

*Kingman Brewster, Jr., 1941, was an educator, President of Yale University and an American diplomat. [cite web | title= Brewster | author = Timothy Dwight College | url = http://www.yale.edu/td/contact/alum.html | accessmonthday = August 3 | accessyear = 2006 ]
*Guido Calabresi, 1953, is currently a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Sterling Professor at Yale Law School. He is also a former Dean of the Yale Law School. [cite web | title = Calabresi | author = Timothy Dwight College | url = http://www.yale.edu/td/contact/alum.html | accessmonthday = August 3 | accessyear = 2006 ]
*Chris Dudley, 1987, was a professional NBA basketball player. [cite web | title= Dudley | author = Timothy Dwight College | url = http://www.yale.edu/td/contact/alum.html | accessmonthday = August 3 | accessyear = 2006 ]
*Porter Goss, 1960, was the director of the CIA in 2004-2006.
*Oren Patashnik, 1976, is a well-known computer scientist who created BibTeX.
*Lowell Weicker, 1953, was the 85th Governor of Connecticut. [cite web | title = Weicker | author = Timothy Dwight College | url = http://www.yale.edu/td/contact/alum.html | accessmonthday = August 3 | accessyear = 2006 ]
*See also List of Yale University people.

External links

* [http://www.yale.edu/td/ Timothy Dwight College]

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