Calhoun College
| Calhoun College | |
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| Residential college at Yale University | |
Coat of arms of Calhoun College
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| University | Yale University |
| Location | 189 Elm Street |
| Coordinates | 41°18′36″N 72°55′38″W / 41.309974°N 72.927241°WCoordinates: 41°18′36″N 72°55′38″W / 41.309974°N 72.927241°W |
| Nickname | Hounies, HounDogs, The Inferno |
| Motto | E Pluribus Hounum (Latin) |
| Motto in English | Out of many, one Houn. |
| Established | 1933 |
| Named for | John C. Calhoun |
| Colors | Black, navy blue, gold |
| Sister college |
Kirkland House, Harvard Pembroke College, Oxford |
| Master | Julia Adams |
| Dean | April Ruiz |
| Undergraduates | 425 (2013-2014) |
| Website | www |
Calhoun College is a residential college of Yale University. It was opened in 1933 as one of the original eight undergraduate residential colleges endowed by Edward Harkness. The building was designed by John Russell Pope.
The college is named for US Vice President John C. Calhoun, an 1804 graduate of Yale College and advocate of slaveholding and state's rights. Since the 1960s, Calhoun's white supremacist beliefs and pro-slavery leadership have prompted calls to rename the college or remove its tributes to Calhoun. In 2016, the Yale Corporation chose to retain Calhoun as the college's namesake.
In 1641, John Brockston established a farm on the plot of land that is now Calhoun College. After the Revolutionary War an inn was constructed that would later become the meeting place of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. From 1863 until 1931 the land was home to the Yale Divinity School, which was housed in three buildings known as West Divinity Hall, Marquand Chapel, and East Divinity Hall. After Yale President James Rowland Angell announced the residential college plan in 1930, the Divinity School campus was demolished and a new campus built at the top of Prospect Hill, where it currently stands.
Although all the other Collegiate Gothic-style colleges at Yale were conceived by James Gamble Rogers, the commission for the new college at the corner of College and Elm Streets was given to John Russell Pope, a campus planner who concurrently designed the Payne Whitney Gymnasium. The new dormitory became known as Calhoun College.
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