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Linonian Society

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Linonia is a literary and debating society founded in 1753 at Yale University. [1]

46 relations: Abraham Baldwin, American Civil War, Andrew Dickson White, Asa and Lucy Goodale Thurston, Branford College, Brothers in Unity, Calliopean Society, Chauncey Depew, Collegiate secret societies in North America, Crotonia (literary society), Daniel Coit Gilman, Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt, Eli Whitney, Elisha Jay Edwards, F. Trubee Davison, Francis Miles Finch, Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard, Freshman, Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, James Fenimore Cooper, James Hillhouse, Jeremiah Day, John C. Calhoun, Joseph Gibson Hoyt, Josiah Whitney, Latin, Nathan Hale, Nathaniel Parker Willis, New Haven, Connecticut, Noah Porter, Roger Sherman Baldwin, Skull and Bones, Sterling Memorial Library, The Last of the Mohicans, Timothy Dwight IV, Timothy Dwight V, Walter Camp, Washington University in St. Louis, William Howard Taft, William M. Evarts, Yale College, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Yale Law School, Yale Political Union, Yale School of Management, Yale University.

Abraham Baldwin

Abraham Baldwin (November 22, 1754March 4, 1807) was an American minister, Patriot, politician, and Founding Father.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Andrew Dickson White

Andrew Dickson White (November 7, 1832 – November 4, 1918) was an American historian and educator, who was the cofounder of Cornell University and served as its first president for nearly two decades.

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Asa and Lucy Goodale Thurston

Asa Thurston (October 12, 1787 – March 11, 1868) and Lucy Goodale Thurston (October 29, 1795 – October 13, 1876) were in the first company of American Christian missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands.

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Branford College

Branford College is one of the 14 residential colleges at Yale University.

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Brothers in Unity

Brothers in Unity is a four-year secret society at Yale University.

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Calliopean Society

The Calliopean Society is a literary and debating society founded at Yale College in 1819 by a group of members of Linonia dissatisfied with the result of an election for the presidency of the latter society.

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Chauncey Depew

Chauncey Mitchell Depew (April 23, 1834April 5, 1928) was an attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt's railroad interests, president of the New York Central Railroad System, and a United States Senator from New York from 1899 to 1911.

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Collegiate secret societies in North America

There are many collegiate secret societies in North America.

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Crotonia (literary society)

Crotonia was the first literary society to exist at Yale University.

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Daniel Coit Gilman

Daniel Coit Gilman (July 6, 1831 – October 13, 1908) was an American educator and academic.

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Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt

Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt (often called E. K. Hunt) (August 26, 1810 - May 2, 1889) was a prominent physician in Hartford, Connecticut.

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Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin.

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Elisha Jay Edwards

Elisha Jay Edwards (often bylined as E.J. Edwards, and under the pen name Holland) (1847 - April 25, 1924) was a well-known investigative journalist and financial reporter of the late 19th and early 20th century.

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F. Trubee Davison

Frederick Trubee Davison (February 7, 1896 – November 14, 1974) was an American World War I aviator, Assistant United States Secretary of War, Director of Personnel for the Central Intelligence Agency, and President of the American Museum of Natural History.

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Francis Miles Finch

Francis Miles Finch (June 9, 1827 – July 31, 1907) was an American judge, poet, and academic associated with the early years of Cornell University.

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Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard

Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard (May 5, 1809 – April 27, 1889) was a deaf American scientist and educator.

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Freshman

A freshman, first year, or frosh, is a person in the first year at an educational institution, usually a secondary or post-secondary school.

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Henry Leavitt Ellsworth

Henry Leavitt Ellsworth (November 10, 1791 – December 27, 1858) was a Yale-educated attorney who became the first Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office, where he encouraged innovation by inventors Samuel F.B. Morse and Samuel Colt.

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James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century.

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James Hillhouse

James Hillhouse (October 20, 1754 – December 29, 1832) was an American lawyer, real estate developer, and politician from New Haven, Connecticut.

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Jeremiah Day

Jeremiah Day (August 3, 1773 – August 22, 1867) was an American academic, a Congregational minister and President of Yale College (1817–1846).

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John C. Calhoun

John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina, and the seventh Vice President of the United States from 1825 to 1832.

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Joseph Gibson Hoyt

Joseph Gibson Hoyt (January 19, 1815 – November 26, 1862) was the first chancellor and a professor of Greek at Washington University in St. Louis (then named Washington Institute in St. Louis) from 1858 to 1862.

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Josiah Whitney

Josiah Dwight Whitney (November 23, 1819 – August 18, 1896) was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University (from 1865), and chief of the California Geological Survey (1860–1874).

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Nathan Hale

Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) was an American soldier and spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

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Nathaniel Parker Willis

Nathaniel Parker Willis (January 20, 1806 – January 20, 1867), also known as N. P. Willis,Baker, 3 was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Noah Porter

Noah Thomas Porter III (December 14, 1811 – March 4, 1892)Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, Yale University, 1891-2, New Haven, pp.

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Roger Sherman Baldwin

Roger Sherman Baldwin (January 4, 1793 – February 19, 1863) was an American politician who served as the 32nd Governor of Connecticut from 1844 to 1846 and a United States Senator from 1847 to 1851.

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Skull and Bones

Skull and Bones is an undergraduate senior secret student society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Sterling Memorial Library

Sterling Memorial Library is the main library building of the Yale University Library system in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

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The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (1826) is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper.

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Timothy Dwight IV

Timothy Dwight (May 14, 1752 – January 11, 1817) was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author.

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Timothy Dwight V

Timothy Dwight V (November 16, 1828 – May 26, 1916) was an American academic, an educator, a Congregational minister, and President of Yale University (1886–1898).

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Walter Camp

Walter Chauncey Camp (April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925) was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football".

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Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St.

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William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States (1909–1913) and the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930), the only person to have held both offices.

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William M. Evarts

William Maxwell Evarts (February 6, 1818February 28, 1901) was an American lawyer and statesman from New York who served as U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York.

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Yale College

Yale College is the undergraduate liberal arts college of Yale University.

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Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is the graduate school of Yale University.

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Yale Law School

Yale Law School (often referred to as Yale Law or YLS) is the law school of Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

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Yale Political Union

The Yale Political Union (YPU) is a debate society at Yale University, founded in 1934 by Professor Alfred Whitney Griswold.

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Yale School of Management

The Yale School of Management (also known as Yale SOM) is the graduate business school of Yale University and is located on Whitney Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linonian_Society

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