The women's golf team was No. 1 in 2004, and the women's bowling team won the national title last month in just the third year of the sport.Vanderbilt does not have an athletic director or an athletic department, but that has not seemed to hurt the school's sports. The men's ...
Cotton Mather contacted a successful businessman in Wales named Elihu Yale to ask him for financial help in constructing a new building for the college. Yale, who had made a fortune through trade while living in India as a representative of the East India Company, donated nine ...