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November 2014

  • Geese, pyes, wine, &c.: a 1798 Thanksgiving

    Happy Thanksgiving from the kitchen door of Davenport College! Most Yale students are away from campus, of course, but it wasn’t always that way.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | November 27 2014 08:45am

  • A good day to be inside

    That's mostly rain, with a little bit of Thanksgiving Eve wintry mix for good measure. A quiet day on campus, to be sure.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | November 26 2014 10:22am

  • Field trip

    Most Yale students have left town for Thanksgiving break, but the Peabody Museum of Natural History is still full of scholars this morning. The Peabody... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | November 25 2014 10:49am

  • Mystery Monday: strings attached

    This stone carving predates the ascendancy of a bluegrass-playing Yale president last year. Anybody know where on campus you can find it? We’ll... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | November 24 2014 10:31am

  • Break time

    Regardless of how The Game comes out tomorrow, Yale’s week-long Thanksgiving break begins today. At Harvard? As Yale students are fond of chanting... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | November 21 2014 11:06am

  • Throwback Thursday: Yale will win

    It's the wrong season and the wrong sport, but something about this photo just seems so right. On our June 1959 cover, Edward Slowik ’60 finishes... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | November 20 2014 10:28am

  • Cold morning, hot ticket

    With temperatures in the 30s, students formed a line as long as a football field yesterday morning outside Ray Tompkins House in hope of getting tickets to... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | November 19 2014 11:04am

  • The little chill

    It may look like fall, but it felt more like winter on the Old Campus this morning. The high today will be in the 30s for the first time this autumn.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | November 18 2014 11:42am

  • Mystery Monday: stone serpents

    The caduceus is supposed to be a symbol not of medicine but of commerce, derived from its association with the Greek god Hermes. But over the years... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | November 17 2014 10:55am

  • Throwback Thursday: pre-pigskin picnic

    On Saturday, the football team plays its last home game of the season against Princeton, finishing off a season-long celebration of the Yale... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | November 13 2014 10:35am

  • Yale's front door

    The New Haven Green is in its glory in the fall. Yale, which inhabits the College Street front of the ancient common, does its part to add to the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | November 12 2014 08:45am

  • Those who served

    Every year, Yale commemorates Veterans Day on Hewitt Quadrangle with a wreath-laying, speeches, and recognition of veterans among Yale’s... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | November 11 2014 08:28am

  • Mystery Monday: hard ball

    Another Monday, another carving from a building somewhere on the Yale campus. Can you tell us where it can be found? We’ll update this post with... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | November 10 2014 08:20am

  • Morning becomes McClellan

    Good morning, Old Campus! It rained all day yesterday, but the sun is back today, playing off the shutters of McClellan Hall.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | November 7 2014 08:47am

  • Throwback Thursday: the mid-’90s move-off

    Throwback Thursday: 20 years ago, writer David Leonhardt ’94 gave us the upshot on the new undergraduate trend toward living off campus. (That's... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | November 6 2014 10:48am

  • Table for two

    Once its fountain is turned off for the season, Maya Lin’s 1989 sculpture The Women’s Table can be used as, well, a women’s... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | November 5 2014 08:37am

  • The “tower of sweat” is back

    Now on view is something most current students had never seen before this fall: the tower of Payne Whitney Gymnasium. The tower had been covered in... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | November 4 2014 12:02pm