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Throwback Thursday: notes from the nineteenth century
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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12:00am July 25 2024
We've heard it from Yale College alums more times than we can count: “the class notes are the first things I turn to in the magazine.” It's probably been that way since we started in 1891. Surely the classmates of Andrew Balliet, Class of 1892, were interested to read in our September 1899 issue about his efforts to find gold near the village of Rampart, Alaska. A friend reported that "the dog in the photograph is one of many in Rampart, but is the only one who can give a civilized bark.” 
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