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| Motto | In Deo Non Armis Fido In God, not arms, I trust (Samuel F. B. Morse family motto) |
| Named For | Samuel Morse |
| Established | 1961 |
| Colors | Black, white, red |
| College Master | Frank Keil |
| College Dean | Joel Silverman |
| Undergraduates | ~480 |
| Called | Morsel |
| Location | 302-304 York Street |
| Homepage | http://www.yale.edu/morse |
Morse College is one of the twelve residential colleges at Yale University, built in 1961 and designed by Eero Saarinen. Samuel Finley Breese Morse ( April 27, 1791 &ndash April 2, 1872) was an American painter of portraits and historic Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Eero Saarinen (eːro saːrinen (August 20 1910 Kirkkonummi, Finland – September 1 1961 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States) was It is adjacent to Ezra Stiles College. Ezra Stiles College is a residential college at Yale University, built in 1961 by Eero Saarinen. The current Master is Frank Keil, Professor of Psychology and Professor of Linguistics. The Associate Master is Kristi Lockhart. Following the Spring 2005 semester, former Dean Rosemary Jones stepped down. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Dean Alexandra Dufresne assumed Morse's decanal responsibilities in the Fall 2005 semester, but recently announced she will leave the position, and the university, after the 2006-2007 academic year. On May 2, 2007, Yale College Dean Peter Salovey announced that Joel Silverman will become the next Dean of Morse College. Yale College was the official name of Yale University from 1718 to 1887 Peter Salovey is Provost and the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology at Yale University.
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Notable alumni
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- Sada Jacobson - 2004 Olympic Bronze medal winner for sabre fencing
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- Joseph Lieberman, U. Joseph Isadore "Joe" Lieberman (born February 24 1942 is the junior United States Senator from Connecticut. S. Senator and former Vice Presidential candidate
- Douglas Warner, former Chairman, J. Douglas 'Sandy' Warner (born June 9, 1946 as Douglas Alexander Warner III but widely known as "Sandy" is an American Banker P. Morgan
- Bronson Pinchot, actor portraying Balki in Perfect Strangers (TV series)
History
In his report on the year 1955-6, Yale President A. Bronson Alcott Pinchot (born May 20, 1959) is an American Actor. Perfect Strangers is an American Sitcom that ran for eight seasons from 1986 through 1993 on ABC. Whitney Griswold announced his intention to add at least one more residential college to the system Yale had launched only two decades earlier. "We have the colleges so full that community life, discipline, education, even sanitation are suffering," he stated. This news bred wild rumors about four or five new colleges being added to Yale's system. Nothing substantial was announced until the spring of 1959 when Eero Saarinen '34 was chosen as the architect, and the Old York Square behind the Graduate School became the designated site. Eero Saarinen (eːro saːrinen (August 20 1910 Kirkkonummi, Finland – September 1 1961 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States) was The Old Dominion Foundation, established by Paul Mellon '29, provided money to build two "radically different" colleges, which would alleviate the growing strain on the older colleges. Paul Mellon KBE ( June 11 1907 &ndash February 1 1999) was an American Philanthropist, Thoroughbred racehorse
Morse College is an eclectic structure built on an odd, angular site with many design features that are reminiscent of the Tuscan villages, most notably San Gimignano. San Gimignano is a small walled medieval Hill town in the Province of Siena, Tuscany, north-central Italy. The college consists almost entirely of single rooms, and in a modern attempt to capture the spirit of Gothic architecture, Saarinen eliminated all right angles from the living areas. This resulted, notoriously, in two rooms which have eleven walls, none of which is long enough to put the bed against and still be able to open the door. In a 1959 article in the Yale Daily News, Eero Saarinen discussed his design for Morse. "Our primary effort was to create an architecture which would recognize the individual as individual instead of an anonymous integer in a group. " Those who have lived in it generally regard the design as a disaster.
The college provides several amenities to its resident "Morsels. " The fourteen-story main tower provides an inspiring view of all of New Haven. The common room's decorations include air hockey, pool, ping-pong, foosball, and a big-screen tv. Morse Happy Hour is held approximately every week, providing free beverages for the college community. The single rooms, arranged in suites but with no common rooms, reflect changing tastes in the early 1960s and provide students with greater privacy but, in some instances, greater isolation than in the more communal living quarters of some other colleges. The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969
Morse has an adjacent "twin" residential college named "Ezra Stiles" which is architecturally similar and built at the same time. Ezra Stiles College is a residential college at Yale University, built in 1961 by Eero Saarinen. The two distinct colleges share an underground kitchen over which runs a public walkway to the Payne Whitney Gymnasium. Architecturally, Morse and Stiles differ from predecessors by having more private space per student, and the lowest ratio of natural light aperture to wall surface of any other colleges.
College 'cheers'
- "Morse, Morse, Hung like a horse!"
- "Dot dot, dash dash, we're Morse college, kiss our axe!" (in reference to Morse code and the battle axe that is part of Morse's shield)
- "Dit dot dit, rah rah Morse!"
- "Morse is the Co-op, DANCE! Morse is the Co-op, DANCE! Bet you want to get inside our PANTS!" (In reference to a common slur formerly used by students of other residential colleges that Morse College looked like the old Yale Co-op building and present Yale Bookstore. )
- "Morse always wins"
- "We eat your fear"
- "Endeavor to score!" (shouted while wearing a tuxedo and sipping from a teacup)
- "Buttplug! Buttplug! Eat my load! Yale is Morse" (sung to the tune of "Bulldog, bulldog, bow wow wow, Eli Yale")
- "Harass them! Harass them! Make them relinquish the ball!"
Trivia
- The Morse courtyard is home to two well known sculptures - Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks by Claes Oldenburg and a piece by J. Seward Johnson. Claes Oldenburg (born January 28, 1929) is a sculptor, best known for his Public art installations typically featuring very large replicas of John Seward Johnson II (born 1930 also known as J Seward Johnson Jr
- Morse's mascot is the walrus, because in French le morse translates to walrus. The walrus ( Odobenus rosmarus) is a large flippered Marine mammal with a discontinuous circumpolar distribution in the Arctic Ocean and
- A student in Morse is known as a "Morsel," also the name of the small cafe ("Buttery") in Morse's common room.
External links
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