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Berkeley’s back story

By Mark Alden Branch ’86 | 8:23am August 03 2018

A member of our staff recently toured Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, England. Alums of Yale’s Berkeley College would be pleased to see their college’s arms—borrowed from those of the Berkeley family—throughout the castle. But be prepared—the British pronounce the name as Bishop Berkeley himself did: BARK-lee.

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