New Haven

Berkeley College

Views from cross campus of Berkeley College. It's typical of British traditions, in crossing the Atlantic, to undergo strange twists. In this case, we have a variation on the theme of Oxbridge colleges being named for their benefactors. Even without any direct connection, the college is named after the good Bishop Berkeley, who did give Yale some books and land in the early eighteenth century. But the money for these particular buildings, which even Berkeley could stub his toe on, came from Edward Harkness, class of 1897.

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