How well do you know your residential colleges?
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A memorable bladderball incident involving this college resulted in widespread chanting that the college “sucks,” a chant its residents took up as a rallying cry.
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When Claes Oldenburg’s pop sculpture “Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks” needed a permanent home in 1974, this college’s art-historian master offered its courtyard.
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Besides its main courtyard, this college has three smaller ones, each named for nineteenth-century literary societies at Yale.
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In 1965, President Kingman Brewster Jr. ’41 appointed a Pulitzer Prize–winning author to be this college’s master, even though he was not a professor.
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Residents of this college carry on a decades-old tradition when they take off their clothes after the third quarter of Yale football games—regardless of the weather.
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The noisy trolley cars that passed this college’s busy corner location were the source of much annoyance in the college, so much so that residents celebrated the trolleys’ demise with a party that became an annual celebraton.
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One of this college’s masters—the longest-serving master of any Yale residential college—brought the term “Àshe!” from his scholarly field to become an unofficial motto for the college.
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Elaborate legends have been concocted to explain why this college’s entrance façade is in a different architectural style from the rest of the college.
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This college, Yale’s largest, incorporated existing buildings from the Sheffield Scientific School in its design.
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This college has three courtyards, one of which is named for a surprising sculpture of a Puritan in the act of defecation.
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This college’s Swiss Room, a sixteenth-century wood-paneled dining room, was imported from Switzerland shortly after the college's completion.
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After students in this college installed a stuffed moose head in the dining hall as a tongue-in-cheek tribute to its outgoing master, the college’s intramural teams became known as the Moose.
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