The Seal of Yale University as it appears on the cover of Yale, Her Campus, Class Rooms, and Athletics, by Walter Camp and L. S. Welch (Boston, L. C. Page and Co., 1900). The Hebrew text in the crest is Urim v'Tumim which has been traditionally translated by Yale scholars as Light and Truth (sometimes Light and Perfection) into English, and as Lux et Veritas into Latin. Biblically, the Urim v'Tumim was a part of the breastplate worn by the High Priest in the Temple and was used as an oracle. The term is not generally translated at all by Jewish scholars.

From the collection of the Jewish Historical Society.