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New England By The Numbers
Yale University
by Daniel Allen
16
Supreme Court justices who attended Yale
5
U.S. presidents who graduated from Yale: William Howard Taft, Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush
16
bulldogs that have served as Handsome Dan over the years since the mascot was adopted in 1889
417
books donated by Elihu Yale to help expand the college library in 1718
12,000,000
volumes now in Yale's 22 libraries
12
books published about the Yale-Harvard football rivalry
300
estimated number of songs written by Cole Porter while studying at Yale (1909-13)
1,052
students once enrolled in professor Peter Salovey's Psychology and Law class, called "the most popular course in Yale College history"
$15.2 billion
size of Yale's endowment, second only to Harvard's $25.9 billion
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