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Mystery Monday: remembrance of things past

By Mark Alden Branch ’86 | 8:34am March 14 2022

Where on campus can you find this memorial to a bygone building? This one's a cinch if you were at Yale before 1931.

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  • Stewart Landefeld
    Stewart Landefeld, 12:30am March 15 2022 | Ico flag Flag as inappropriate

    I do not quite know where at JE this is, but I believe that this memorial honors one of two distinguished and exuberant laboratory buildings that trained turn of the 20th century STEM students (Sloan chemistry and Kent physics ). They stood side by side in the complicated site where James Gamble Rogers razed them to build Jonathan Edwards in 1932, his most interesting, quirky and homey of colleges. JE’s character still reflects the footprint of these two labs.

  • Mark Branch
    Mark Branch, 9:42am March 15 2022 | Ico flag Flag as inappropriate

    That's right! It's above an entryway on the north side of the JE courtyard.

  • Stewart M Landefeld
    Stewart M Landefeld, 1:37pm March 15 2022 | Ico flag Flag as inappropriate

    Do you know if there is a companion memorial also at JE for the Kent Physics lab?

  • Mark Branch
    Mark Branch, 11:19am March 16 2022 | Ico flag Flag as inappropriate

    There is! On the east wall of the courtyard.

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