1924 YSN Time Line

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w. goodrich

Pre YSN 1920's 1930's 1940's 1950's 1960's

1924

First class starts in February, 1924. Admission requirements are the same as for Yale College. It is clear, however, that the School of Nursing is separate from Yale College as Yale College does not admit women.

Students, and Dean Goodrich, live in Nathan Smith Hall. The School is located in the Brady Building.

1925

Yale Corporation authorizes the Bachelor of Nursing (BN).

Yale Corporation declares entrance requirement is two years of "approved college work" making YSN the first school of nursing with such advanced academic standing.

YSN Class of 1926

1926

First class graduates.

50th and last class graduates from the Connecticut Training School. CTS was founded in 1873 as one of three American Nightingale Schools.

Master of Science degree from Yale University's Graduate School available for nurses who desire preparation in public health nursing, nursing education, and nursing andministration.

Psychiatric nursing experience added to the curriculum.

1927

YSN faculty choose apricot as the color of velvet on the academic hood to represent nursing. This becomes the accepted color for the academic discipline of nursing throughout the world.

1929

Yale University accepts $1 million endowment for the School of Nursing from the Rockefeller Foundation.

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