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Recollections of Yale, across the decades. Send your own memories to be considered for posting to yam@yale.edu, with subject line “For Memories.”

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  • The Glee Club meets the “wand’rin’ star”

    “This the Yale Glee Club?” By chance I am answering phones that morning, although that isn’t in my job description as President of the Glee Club. It... Read on
    Jim Weber ’70 | October 27 2020 06:52am

  • One loss—of many—in the Great War

    A hundred years ago, the US entrance into the Great War in Europe ruined the chances of a rematch between the two top milers of the day—Joie Ray from... Read on
    Brooks Clark | April 6 2017 10:19am

  • Defending the Bard in a time of strife

    C-SPAN recently broadcast an event at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., celebrating “400 Years of Shakespeare.” People from all... Read on
    Nathan Wise ’72 | July 21 2016 03:14pm | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Light, truth, and Peter Rabbit

    In the spring of 2014, I stood at our college reunion, in the Timothy Dwight courtyard, under a gigantic tent shielding us from the pounding rain. A friend... Read on
    Amy Kaufman Burk ’80 | May 28 2015 03:00pm | Ico comments 1 comment

  • ‘We smoked our pipes and took our ease’

    Back in the 1950s, smoking a pipe was as much the fashion at Yale as button-down Gant shirts and scuffed white bucks. I wasn’t a smoker, but when I... Read on
    Andrew Letendre ’58 | May 21 2015 02:54pm | Ico comments 4 comments

  • "Dar Schicken to Yale": a wartime seder (Mar/Apr 2005)

    This is a story about philosemitism at Yale 60 years ago. At that time, Yale policy did not forbid either quotas for the admission of Jews or... Read on
    N. Joel Ehrenkrantz ’45W, ’49MD | February 28 2005 10:50pm

  • The wages of excess (Apr. 1999)

    While Dartmouth inspired the classic fraternity film Animal House, and Princeton has more recently made the national news for its “Nude... Read on
    Sandy Christopher ’99 | April 1 1999 08:44am

  • The perils of total TV (Feb. 1999)

    Every new year at Yale brings some sort of change to undergraduate life. Some changes, like the decision to limit the number of courses an... Read on
    Sandy Christopher ’99 | February 1 1999 08:38am

  • Spandex chic (Dec. 1998)

    The mythic Yale man of years past excelled both in the classroom and on the playing fields. And while some might fear that Yale’s days as a... Read on
    Sandy Christopher ’99 | December 1 1998 08:32am

  • You’ve gotta chalk the walk (Nov. 1998)

    Every day, the Yale campus is inundated with flyers, posters, table tents, and notices in the Yale Daily News advertising a staggering assortment... Read on
    Sandy Christopher ’99 | November 1 1998 08:25am

  • At home at Yale: Daily life in a master’s house (Feb. 1994)

    Caring for undergraduates outside the classroom these days may mean visits to the emergency room, but, as the wife of Trumbull College Master Harry... Read on
    Manette Fishwick Adams ’49MA | February 1 1994 10:36am

  • Pondering “The Women’s Table” (Dec. 1993)

    The sculpture installed on the Cross Campus in October to honor the role of women at Yale set one recent alumna to thinking about some things she had taken... Read on
    Karen Alexander ’93 | December 1 1993 10:07am

  • Class Day and Commencement (Summer 1995)

    For all the turmoil on the national and the international stages, the closing ceremonies of the 1994–95 academic year proved to be classics of... Read on
    Annie Murphy Paul ’95 | July 1 1995 10:26am

  • Old Blues in black and white (Summer 1993)

    Over the past 25 years, relations among the races at Yale have come a long way. But as two black members of the Class of 1968 who returned for their... Read on
    Armstead L. Robinson ’68 & Donald H. Ogilvie '68, '78MPPM | July 1 1993 09:21am

  • Memorable mentoring (Mar. 1993)

    Memories of great Yale teachers gleam through the decades, “stars of the summer night,” as we used to sing, and now “far down yon azure... Read on
    Emerson Stone ’48 | March 1 1993 07:40am

  • A century of women at Yale (Oct. 1992)

    In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the admission of women to Yale’s PhD programs, the Graduate School last April held a three-day... Read on
    Nannerl Keohane ’67PhD | October 1 1992 08:29am

  • The undergrad as working stiff (Apr. 1998)

    In popular culture, a Yalie is often portrayed as an American relative of P. G. Wodehouse’s fictional Bertie Wooster, the affable, overprivileged... Read on
    Sandy Christopher ’99 | April 1 1998 07:33am

  • Home, sweet New Haven (May 1993)

    Before I left home for Yale, one of my friends was giving me a very hard time about having to go to school in New Haven. Now, after a year and a half... Read on
    Alissa MacMillan ’95 | May 1 1993 04:33pm

  • A co-ed goes coed (Summer 1993)

    Most students attending college for the first time find it very different from high school; usually because it is bigger, more competitive, and more... Read on
    Annie Murphy Paul ’95 | July 1 1993 04:25pm