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September 2018

  • Historic note

    Get your voice warmed up and sing a round of “Happy Birthday” to the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, which opened 20 years ago today.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 28 2018 10:18am

  • Mooncake season

    The Yale Chinese American Students Association celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Branford common room last night, enjoying mooncakes filled... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Jordan Powell ’21</span> | September 27 2018 04:47pm

  • Amaizing

    Fall harvest update: a few days ago, we showed you pumpkins growing in the Silliman College courtyard. At the Native American Cultural Center on... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 26 2018 09:10am

  • A wet walk

    Those bluestone paths on the Old Campus are beautiful. They’re also a good reason for first-years to invest in rain boots. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 25 2018 10:00am

  • Suspended

    It’s a beautiful fall morning, and there’s a tire swing just waiting for you in Berkeley College. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 24 2018 09:02am

  • The man, the sandwich, the sauce

    What’s a Wenzel? If you went to Yale in this century, you are likely to know. A Wenzel is a particular kind of sandwich with a fried chicken... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 21 2018 11:20am

  • Robert Venturi, 1925–2018

    Robert Venturi died yesterday at the age of 93. The influential architect began to make a name for himself while teaching at Yale in the early 1960s... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 20 2018 10:20am

  • Serpentine sound

    If you haven’t been to Yale’s Collection of Musical Instruments on Hillhouse Avenue, make plans to stop by the next time you’re in... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 19 2018 08:47am

  • Escape route

    "A library is a summons to scholarship,” according to the words carved on the front of Sterling Memorial Library. But within its walls, that... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 18 2018 08:35am

  • A grand time

    The fourth annual New Haven Grand Prix bicycle race wound its way through the campus and downtown Friday evening. In addition to the race, a street... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 17 2018 08:41am

  • Where’s Linus?

    Yale’s grounds maintenance crew has been introducing more edible plants into the campus landscape. Silliman College has an impressive crop of... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 14 2018 08:35am

  • Celebrating writers

    Poet and former Yale professor Elizabeth Alexander ’84 gave the keynote address (“Why I Write”) yesterday in Sprague Hall to kick... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 13 2018 08:33am

  • Art on the move

    We spotted an old friend on Tower Parkway yesterday: the George Rickey sculpture Two Planes Vertical-Horizontal II, swaying in the breeze... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 12 2018 08:47am

  • Remembering 9/11

    Yale marked the 17th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with a ceremony of remembrance in the nave of Sterling Memorial Library. Students read... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 11 2018 09:11am

  • We know what it’s all about

    This morning’s theme song: “Rainy Days and Mondays.” Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 10 2018 10:08am

  • Silver lining

    A sunny day turned dark very quickly around 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon. On campus and at the athletic fields, many Yalies soon found... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 7 2018 10:36am

  • Hot lunch

    Despite the heat wave, the food trucks in front of Ingalls Rink are as popular as ever at lunchtime. Just be sure to find a table in the shade. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 6 2018 09:29am

  • Where history is made

    Undergrads have called McClellan Hall home for 93 years, but this fall the Old Campus building is full of faculty offices for the history department.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 5 2018 10:47am