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Memories

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

  • 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

  • Couches! Futons! Cheap! (Oct. 1997)

    There are a number of ways to look at Yale. In movies, Yale usually gets pegged as a factory that produces people who like to wear blue blazers and... Read on
    Sandy Christopher ’99 | October 1 1997 02:35pm

  • If you want to learn it, teach it (Dec. 1997)

    Expectant eyes focused on me, deciding whether I was friend or prey. None of my notes or preparation had readied me for this test. My director had told me... Read on
    Loren Goldman ’00 | December 1 1997 01:24pm

  • If it’s Wednesday, it must be Woodward (Feb. 1995)

    Carefree as the “shortest, gladdest years” are supposed to be, they can become pretty routine. Mundane chores reduce the academic day to a... Read on
    Elana Zeide ’96 | February 1 1995 01:18pm

  • Learning to love the East (Feb. 96)

    On a clear, brisk day late this November, a Californian friend of mine walked outside wearing shorts. He’s a freshman. I put a gloved hand on... Read on
    Michelle Chihara ’96 | February 1 1996 01:11pm

  • Outta here! (Summer 1998)

    While Yalies might like to believe themselves to be calm, confident, and self-assured, the truth is that we do tend to get a little nervous from... Read on
    Sandy Christopher ’99 | July 1 1998 02:04pm

  • Inside the poster culture (Dec. 1994)

    It was the beginning of September, but you’d think it was spring. Overnight, it seemed, the Yale campus had become a veritable greenhouse.... Read on
    Annie Murphy Paul ’95 | December 1 1994 12:30pm

  • Yale–the tour (Nov. 1994)

    I am reclining in a shady spot on the Old Campus one afternoon in July, enjoying the serenity that summer brings to the Yale campus, when from... Read on
    Annie Murphy Paul ’95 | November 2 1994 12:23pm

  • From spooning to hooking up (Apr. 95)

    The amorous activities of Yale students have gone by many different names over the years, from “spooning” to “petting” to... Read on
    Annie Murphy Paul ’95 | April 1 1995 12:10pm

  • The café campus (Mar. 1996)

    The word “coffeehouse” brings to mind Parisian street corners, crowded rooms where visionaries brandished cigarettes in earnest defense... Read on
    Michelle Chihara ’96 | March 1 1996 11:59am

  • Put on the pin stripes (May 1998)

    I had hardly been on campus long enough to unpack the laundry that I washed over Christmas break when my roommate, with the look of a true believer in... Read on
    Sandy Christopher ’99 | May 1 1998 12:40pm

  • The spring term and the rest of my life (Feb. 1993)

    The good thing about becoming a senior, I thought when I got back to school last September, was realizing how foolish we all were three years ago.... Read on
    Beth Carney ’93 | February 1 1993 11:32am

  • Beyond the Blue Book (Dec. 1995)

    Take the minimum number of classes,” my adviser told me. “Many people are under the mistaken impression that this [holding up the Blue... Read on
    Dan Walfish ’98 | December 1 1995 11:22am

  • The call of the bluephone (Nov. 1997)

    Yalies, as a group, can tend toward the obsessive. For example, nothing is going to come between my roommate and law school—not even sleep.... Read on
    Sandy Christopher ’99 | November 1 1997 11:07am