BRANFORD COLLEGE

'Branford College' is one of the 12 residential colleges at Yale University. It was founded in 1933 by partitioning the Memorial Quadrangle (built in 1917-21) into two parts: Saybrook and Branford. According to Robert Frost, it is "the oldest and most beautiful" of the Yale residential colleges, though it shares a building and was founded simultaneously with Saybrook, and is not in fact the oldest of Yale's colleges. That title belongs to Jonathan Edwards College, situated immediately to the south of Branford.
Branford College was named for the nearby city of Branford, Connecticut, where Yale was briefly located. The base of Harkness Tower, one of the university's most prominent structures and for a time the tallest free-standing stone structure in the world, forms one corner of Branford's main courtyard. The tower contains a 54-bell carillon. Frank Lloyd Wright is said to have been asked where he would be choose to be if he could be anywhere in the U.S. and responded that he would pick Harkness Tower so he wouldn't have to look at it.
The student rooms and common areas are decorated with stained glass by G. Owen Bonawit. Branford's architect, James Gamble Rogers, required that at least one pane on every window be broken and then soldered back together, resulting in a Y-shape in many of the windows.
The college was renovated in 2000. Its mascot is the squirrel.
On the television show Gilmore Girls, Rory Gilmore (played by Alexis Bledel) is a member of Branford College. Richard Gilmore (played by Edward Herrmann) is a fictional Branford College alumnus.

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