The New Yorker, December 22, 1962 P. 26
Talk story about the joint dedication at Yale of two new residential colleges: Morse College and Ezra Stiles College. The late Eero Saarinen was the architect. The two buildings are rough-surfaced buff stone-and-concrete polygonal units, Gothic in feeling. Abstract sculptures instead of gargoyles, puncutuate the walls. The dedication ceremony was held at Ezra Stiles with a reception afterward in the master's house. The cornerstone of the two colleges is in Morse which is why the dedication was held in Ezra Stiles. Among the guests was Mr. Paul Mellon, Mrs. John Hay Whitney, Mr. Richard B. Sewall, Mr. Wilmarth Lewis. Writer spoke with Mrs. Saarinen, who edited a book about her husband and has written another on art collectors. She spoke of his architectural ideas. Mr. Andrew Patterson, Jr., an associate professor of chemistry, shepherded guests to another party in the Morse College library. This college was named for Samuel F.B. Morse, who graduated from Yale in 1810. Ezra Stiles College was named for the Rev. Ezra Stiles, president of Yale from 1778 to 1795 & the first president of Yale to have the idea of a university.