In the 1850s, three members of The Order left Yale and working together, at times with other members along the way, made a revolution that changed the face, direction and purpose of American education.
It was a rapid, quiet revolution, and eminently successful.
The American people even today, in 1983, are not aware of a coup d'etat.
The revolutionary trio were:
• Timothy Dwight ('49), Professor in the Yale Divinity School and then 12th President of Yale University.
• Daniel Coit Gilman ('52), first President of the University of California, first President of the Johns Hopkins University and first President of the Carnegie Institution.
• Andrew Dickson White ('53), first President of Cornell University and first President of the American Historical Association.
