The Elizabethan Club of Yale University

An “Arabian-Nightish” gift to Yale is what Clarence Day, the authorof Life With Father, called the Elizabethan Club. The Club was thebrainchild of his Yale classmate, Alexander Smith Cochran, Class of1896, who in 1911 donated a house, an endowment, and hisimportant collection of early English literature to found it. Its modestpurpose was to provide a forum for undergraduate discussions onliterature, art, or indeed any subject, and to offer a congenialenvironment for social and intellectual interaction between junior andsenior members of the University.