ABSTRACT
Established in 1701 by a group of ministers to combat the latitudinarianism, or tolerance of various religious doctrines, of Harvard in nearby Massachusetts, Yale was Connecticut's first college. For sixteen years, this "Collegiate School" had no fixed campus and operated out of private homes in Hartford, Saybrook, and New Haven. It was only in 1717, when the colony's General Assembly granted the college the sum of 500 pounds to build its first college house, that New Haven, the colony's largest urban center, was selected as the school's permanent home.
