Editing Yale University (section)

====Students====
As the only college in Connecticut from 1701 to 1823, Yale educated the sons of the elite.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Daniels |first=Bruce C. |title=College Students and Puritan Society: A Quantitative Profile of Yale Graduates in Colonial America |date=1982 |journal=Connecticut History Review |issue=23 |pages=1–23 |doi=10.2307/44369191 |jstor=44369191 |s2cid=254492748|issn=0884-7177 }}{{Indent}}</ref> Punishable offenses included [[cardplaying]], tavern-going, destruction of college property, and acts of disobedience. Harvard was distinctive for the stability and maturity of its tutor corps, while Yale had youth and zeal.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Moore |first=Kathryn McDaniel |date=1978 |title=The War with the Tutors: Student-Faculty Conflict at Harvard and Yale, 1745–1771 |journal=[[History of Education Quarterly]] |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=115–127 |doi=10.2307/367795 |jstor=367795 |s2cid=144759290}}</ref>

The emphasis on classics gave rise to private student societies, open only by invitation, which arose as forums for discussions of scholarship, literature and politics. The first were debating societies: [[Crotonia (literary society)|Crotonia]] in 1738, [[Linonia]] in 1753 and [[Brothers in Unity]] in 1768. Linonia and Brothers in Unity continue to exist; commemorations to them can be found with names given to campus structures, like Brothers in Unity Courtyard in Branford College.