A statue of longtime Yale President Theodore Dwight Woolsey sits at a prominent location in Yale Old Campus. Woolsey graduated as valedictorian of the Yale Class of 1820 and later served as a professor of Greek from 1831 to 1846.
Woolsey's uncle Timothy Dwight had been Yale's President from 1795 to 1817. Woolsey was elected President in 1846 and served until 1871. Another Dwight relative followed/ During his 25 years as president, Yale advanced in wealth and influence and two new departments, the Scientific School and the School of Fine Arts, were begun.
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