Timothy Dwight College
| Timothy Dwight College | |
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| Residential college at Yale University | |
Coat of arms of Timothy Dwight College
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| University | Yale University |
| Location | 345 Temple Street |
| Coordinates | 41°18′38″N 72°55′24″W / 41.31054°N 72.92332°WCoordinates: 41°18′38″N 72°55′24″W / 41.31054°N 72.92332°W |
| Nickname | TDers |
| Motto | Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit. (Latin) |
| Motto in English | Someday, perhaps, it will be pleasant to remember even these things. |
| Established | 1935 |
| Named for | Timothy Dwight IV and Timothy Dwight V |
| Colors | Red, silver |
| Sister college | Leverett House |
| Master | Mary Lui |
| Dean | Sarah Mahurin |
| Undergraduates | 399 (2013-2014) |
| Mascot | lion |
| Website | www |
Timothy Dwight College, commonly abbreviated and referred to as "TD", is a residential college at Yale University named after two presidents of Yale, Timothy Dwight IV and his grandson, Timothy Dwight V. The college was designed in 1935 by James Gamble Rogers in the Federal-style architecture popular during the elder Timothy Dwight's presidency and was most recently renovated in 2002. In 2015, TD won its Yale-leading 13th Tyng Cup, the championship prize for Yale's year-long intramural athletic competition among the twelve residential colleges.
Timothy Dwight College, Yale's ninth residential college and the farthest from Old Campus, opened on September 23, 1935 at an over-budget cost of $2,000,000. At the time, the Yale Alumni Weekly called it "one of the most architecturally pleasing colleges." The design of the college was meant to reference an early 19th-century New England town hall, and the college's brick work with white trim, green shutters, and hand-hewn dining hall beams are all of Federal inspiration. In the college's inaugural year, a number of plaster ceilings collapsed in the college, leading the TD Social Activities Committee to sponsor a Plaster Dinner and Mr. Plaster dances, a tradition that continued until the 1970s.
The students of Timothy Dwight were originally nicknamed "Prexies," a slang term for the college's presidential namesakes, but TD's current mascot is the Lion. 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 is traditionally translated approximately to, "Someday, perhaps, it will be pleasant to remember even this."
The college's popular but unofficial motto is "Àshe," which means "We make it happen" in Yoruba. Àshe was brought into usage by the former Master, Robert Thompson, known to students as "Master T."
The Timothy Dwight fight song, often sung en masse at The Game, is : "Ring the bell, ring the bell! God damn, fuck, hell! Horseshit, assbite! Nobody's better than Timothy Dwight!"
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