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April 2016

  • Shhhhhh

    It’s a busy time of year at Yale, but you can always count on the Librarian’s Court at Sterling Memorial Library to provide an oasis of... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 29 2016 08:37am

  • Give me my propers

    Yale announced yesterday that its two new residential colleges will be named for Pauli Murray ’65JSD and Benjamin Franklin. Campus bulletin... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 28 2016 08:54am

  • Cherry pink

    More of the wonders of spring, from the Branford College courtyard. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 27 2016 08:53am

  • Sales pitch

    Bulldog Days started yesterday and runs through tomorrow. It’s the time when Yale pulls out all the stops for admitted students and tries to... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 26 2016 09:03am

  • Battell Chapel 360

    Students filled Battell Chapel on Friday to see television journalist Anderson Cooper ’89, who was on campus to receive the Yale... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 25 2016 09:14am

  • Flowery Friday

    Spring keeps springing, and now it’s the dogwoods’ turn. Happy Earth Day! Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 22 2016 10:50am

  • Show time

    Mother Nature has her own drama going on outside the University Theatre. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 21 2016 08:46am

  • Hanging fire

    They may look hard at work, but these art handlers are in fact as two-dimensional as the Lion attacking a Horse they’re easing into... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 20 2016 08:51am

  • Square deal

    The short walk from campus to New Haven’s Wooster Square is always worth the trip when its famous cherry trees are in bloom—especially... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 19 2016 08:40am

  • The Wright stuff

    A lion’s-eye view of the Old Campus from the courtyard of Lanman-Wright Hall on a recent spring afternoon. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Branch ’86</span> | April 18 2016 08:23am

  • The day

    Every year, there’s that day when, by unspoken consensus, students appear en masse on Cross Campus, on Old Campus, and in all the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 15 2016 08:55am

  • Legal luminaries

    In a church, you might expect to see depictions of saints in the stained glass panels of a window like this one. But the grand stairway of the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 14 2016 09:01am

  • Vandy is dandy

    Our annual spring blossom inspection continues today with the courtyard of Vanderbilt Hall. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 13 2016 08:40am

  • A splash of color

    Alexander Calder’s Gallows and Lollipops and a passing raincoat help brighten a gray Hewitt Quadrangle this morning. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 12 2016 11:09am

  • Making it clear

    The scene this morning in front of Evans Hall, home of the School of Management: that 130,000 square feet of glass isn’t going to clean itself. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 11 2016 10:17am

  • Branford in bloom

    There’s no evidence to back up the cherished legend that Robert Frost called the Branford College courtyard “the most beautiful... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 8 2016 08:46am

  • Very slightly throwback Thursday

    It's cloudy this morning, so we’re just going to back up a week—before that snow and ice storm—and remember how the Silliman... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 7 2016 08:46am

  • Inside the Yale student body

    You’ll find Yale’s first microscope, a gorilla skeleton, dinosaur bones, and plenty of other wonderful artifacts in the Peabody... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 6 2016 08:50am

  • The cruelest month

    We were in shorts last week. It snowed yesterday, and last night a coat of ice covered the trees and spring blossoms. Go home, April—you're... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 5 2016 10:22am