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October 2023

  • Down to work

    With midterms in full swing, we found a good crowd in the Starr Reference Room at Sterling Memorial Library last week. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 30 2023 05:17am

  • A doctor's legacy

    On Wednesday, the School of Medicine unveiled a bust of Yan Fuqing, who was the first Asian to earn a doctorate from the school in 1909. Yan... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 27 2023 05:23am

  • Throwback Thursday: something in common

    When we featured Commons on our cover in 1927, we reported reassuringly that "the dining hall is today a pronounced success, and is under the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 26 2023 04:57am

  • Red vines

    This time of year, Sterling Memorial Library is an especially beautiful “summons to scholarship.” Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 25 2023 04:55am

  • Wooooooolsey . . .

    We're not sure if the cobwebs attached to the Theodore Dwight Woolsey statue on Old Campus are extremely well-executed Halloween decorations or just... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 24 2023 12:00am

  • Getaway

    Elis who want a taste of fall foliage often take a walk to East Rock Park this time of year. Ornithophiles: see the coromorant? Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 23 2023 04:39am

  • Music to the eyes

    Happy 25th birthday to the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, which was dedicated in October 1998. The library occupies what was once a light court in... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 20 2023 04:15am

  • Throwback Thursday: the more things change

    The black and white photo is from our March 1952 cover; the color one was taken two weeks ago. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 19 2023 05:02am

  • Shoulder season

    Flowers in bloom and a tree aflame on Rose Walk. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 18 2023 04:30am

  • Mad dogs and MBAs

    This time of year, the lunchtime crowd in the courtyard of the School of Management's Evans Hall favors the sunny spots. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 17 2023 10:45am

  • Mystery Monday: key stone

    Those knobby things you see often at the top of Gothic vaults are called bosses. This boss evidently carries the keys. Where did we find it? Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 16 2023 05:27am

  • Cyclists welcome

    We spotted this sign on the Farmington Canal Greenway, on which you can pedal all the way to Northampton, Massachusetts. The League of American... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 13 2023 06:34am

  • Throwback Thursday: avant-garde aardvark

    The Peabody Museum is currently reinstalling its collections in anticipation of a grand reopening next year. Wonder if they still have this... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 12 2023 12:00am

  • Golden age

    The locust trees outside Stoeckel Hall are doing their autumnal thing. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 11 2023 12:00am

  • Tercentenarian

    Yesterday was the anniversary of the Connecticut General Court’s “Act For Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School” in... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 10 2023 12:00am

  • Mystery Monday: Yale's champion

    Cotton Mather was a Harvard man, but only because there was no Yale when he started college. Mather was one of Yale's early champions; he urged... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 9 2023 04:59am

  • Full house

    There are 6,818 undergrads on campus this fall—a record number. And yesterday afternoon, it felt like all of them were crossing at College and... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 6 2023 06:43am

  • Throwback Thursday: tree sitting

    Since 2009, Yale provost Scott Strobel has been making and selling bowls and pens from the wood of campus trees that have to come down. But the idea... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 5 2023 04:50am

  • Solar power

    Caffeine and the afternoon sun help provide energy to students working at Steep café on Science Hill. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 4 2023 05:34am