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May 2020

  • Green shoots

    With no commencement or reunions this year, the grass on the Old Campus is unusually lush for the end of May. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 29 2020 07:50am

  • Beach boy

    Sage Boy has been festooned with what appears to be a beach towel. Please employ proper social distancing when you go to the shore, Sage Boy. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 27 2020 08:31am

  • Standing tall

    Update on spring flora: those showy allium bulbs have shot up and burst open all over campus. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 26 2020 11:04am

  • Wish you were here

    It’s a beautiful day in New Haven, and we’re really missing the big reunion tent that ought to be on Old Campus right now. We hope to... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 22 2020 08:40am

  • Throwback Thursday: Class of ’15

    This weekend, the Yale Class of 2015 was supposed to have its first reunion. This page from our June 1980 issue features the Class of 1915 at its... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 28 2020 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: flying Elis

    A hundred years ago this week, we were celebrating Yale’s win in the first annual Intercollegiate Flying Meet in Mineola, New York.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 21 2020 07:54am

  • Breathing room

    New Haven’s parks have seen a surge in walkers, bikers, and runners during the pandemic. To make room for more of them, the city has closed... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 20 2020 07:53am

  • Rare fortitude

    Congratulations to the more than three thousand newly minted Yale alumni whose degrees were conferred yesterday via a video message from President... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 19 2020 08:11am

  • Happy few

    Yale’s online commencement kicks off at 11 AM Eastern time, but a small band of Yalies couldn’t bear the idea that there wouldn’t... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 18 2020 10:18am

  • Capping it all off

    We spied a graduation photo shoot on Cross Campus yesterday afternoon. Congratulations to all of this year’s graduates, whose degrees will be... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 15 2020 07:55am

  • For the Record

    More of the colors of spring on campus: a redbud outside the former Yale Record building, now part of Davenport College. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 13 2020 08:13am

  • Remembered in vane

    Today is the 268th anniversary of the birth of theologian, educator, and poet Timothy Dwight, who was president of Yale from 1795 to 1817. Timothy... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 14 2020 08:10am

  • Just a glimpse

    On our occasional quiet, socially distant walks around campus, we have to content ourselves with views through the gates of the residential... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 12 2020 07:56am

  • Mystery Monday: overhead

    Today’s mystery: where on campus can you find these zigzag-adorned arches? Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 11 2020 07:38am

  • He especially likes the bark

    What’s Handsome Dan’s favorite kind of tree? A dogwood, of course. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 7 2020 07:53am

  • Finally

    Today is officially the last day of the semester in Yale College. Final exams were to have ended at 5:30 pm, today, though exams as we know them... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 6 2020 08:02am

  • Red, white and beautiful

    We’re surely not the only ones who keep watch every year for the opening of the tulips in the south court of Berkeley College. For those who... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 5 2020 07:35am

  • Mystery Monday: what’s the theme?

    Today’s mystery is not where you might these stone carvings—they’re on the north side of Benjamin Franklin College—but... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 4 2020 07:31am

  • Victory in Europe

    Today is the 75th anniversary of VE-Day, when German surrender in World War II was formally accepted by the Allied forces. “We have passed a... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 8 2020 07:53am