W.A. Norton

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1852

• The Yale Corporation “voted, that a new professorship in the department of Philosophy and the Arts be established to be called the Professorship of Civil Engineering.
      “Voted, that Professor William August Norton [1810-1883], formerly professor at Newark College, Delaware, and then at Brown University, be chosen as the incumbent of the professorship. Voted, that none of the existing funds of the College be applied in support of this professorship.”
      Editorial note: During the middle of the 19th century Yale College was on the edge of total bankruptcy.
  
  
• The American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) founded.
  
  
• First Class, numbering six, were awarded the graduate degree of Bachelor of Philosophy by the School of Applied Chemistry.

1854

The term “The (Yale) Scientific School” first used by the Yale Corporation in describing appointments to the School of Applied Chemistry and the School of Engineering.