The Private Colleges

The abundance of literature concerning Yale University is not surprising; but it is larger than it needs to be. To help sort out what is worth looking at, researchers might limit themselves to the popular account by Brooks Mather Kelley, Yale: A History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974) or the bibliographies in George M. Pierson's definitive two-volume work, Yale College: An Educational History, 1871-1921; and Yale: the University College (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952 and 1955). The early colonial period is dealt with in scholarly detail by Richard Warch in School of the Prophets Yale College 1701-1740 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973). See also biographies of Thomas Clap and Ezra Stiles listed below.

Trinity College has been superbly chronicled in Glenn Weaver's The History of Trinity College (Hartford: the Trinity College Press, 1967).

For Wesleyan University:

Dutcher, George Matthew. An Historical and Critical Survey of the Curriculum of Wesleyan University and Related Subjects. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1948. Deals with the period 1831-1948.

Nicolson, Frank Waiter, ed. Athletics at Wesleyan. Middletown: Wesleyan University Alumni Council, 1938.

Pomeroy, Karl Harrington. The Background of Wesleyan, A Study of Local Conditions about the Time the College was Founded. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1942.

Price, Carl Fowler. Wesleyan's First Century Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1932.

Trinity, Wesleyan, and Yale each gets a chapter in William L. Davis, ed., The New England States (Boston, 1897), vol II.

Connecticut College, formerly Connecticut College for Women, is described historically in Irene Nye, Chapters in the History of Connecticut College During the First Three Administrations, 1911-1942 (New London: n. pub., 1943). See also Henry W Littlefield, "The Role of the Private Community Colleges of Connecticut (1928-1958)," Junior College Journal 29(0ctober, 1958). This is a summary of his dissertation (Yale, 1954) by a one-time president of the University of Bridgeport, formerly the Junior College of Connecticut.