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February 2025

  • Now and then: lion's-eye view

    We featured this view of Old Campus from the courtyard of Wright Hall (now Lanman-Wright) on our November 1962 cover. The buildings look much the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | February 26 2025 10:00pm

  • You must believe in spring

    Every year we keep an eye out for witch hazel in bloom—an early harbinger of spring. We found some on Monday on the Farmington Canal Trail... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | February 25 2025 04:41am

  • Three years

    Ukrainian flags appeared on Cross Campus yesterday for a vigil to mark the third anniversary of Russia's invasion. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | February 25 2025 03:07am

  • Mystery Monday: restricted

    We've always been amused by the contrast between the elegant stone carving and the prosaic message above this campus door. Who knows where it is? Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | February 13 2025 12:22pm | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/4551-mystery-monday-restricted?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 1 comment</a></span>

  • Please touch

    Those who frequented the Peabody Museum before its renovation will remember its Discovery Room for young children. The expanded Peabody has a larger... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | February 20 2025 10:00pm

  • Conveying a composer

    The music world celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of Charles Ives last fall, and a display of Ives-related artifacts from the Irving S.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | February 18 2025 10:00pm

  • Orange you glad you came?

    On a cold winter day, that paprika-colored carpet in the library of Paul Rudolph Hall will warm you up from the eyes in. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | February 18 2025 11:08am

  • Snow on the pyramid

    Maren Hassinger's sculpture Monument (Pyramid) in the Art Gallery sculpture garden got the Frosted Mini Wheats treatment in Wednesday's... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | February 13 2025 10:58am

  • Mystery Monday: seal of approval

    The open book from Yale's seal, which features the Hebrew words Urim v’Thummim, appears frequently in Yale's architecture. Do you know... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | February 16 2025 10:00pm

  • Stationary bikes

    It's not ideal weather for bicycling these days. We've had another inch or two of snow since we took this photo in Branford's Linonia Court... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | February 12 2025 03:44pm

  • Throwback Thursday: Bulldog days

    Seventy-five years ago, in our March 1950 issue, we ran this photo of Levi Jackson ’50 at an event in New Haven. Jackson was Yale's first... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | February 12 2025 05:44am

  • Throwback Thursday: desktop publishing

    In our February 1975 issue, we featured birds-eye views of the desks of Yale faculty and staff, photographed by Mark Ellis. This modest secretary in... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | February 12 2025 05:00pm

  • Chill

    It's not quite Noguchi, but really any sculpture looks great with the Beinecke as a backdrop. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | February 11 2025 03:09am

  • A run in the park

    An overnight storm dropped four inches of snow on New Haven, but that didn't stop 3,000 people from participating in the annual Run for Refugees, a... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | February 10 2025 03:02am

  • Cloud server

    We walked straight into a Magritte painting on Hewitt Quadrangle the other day. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | February 7 2025 04:12am

  • Throwback Thursday: Black at Yale in 1915

    In our January 1970 issue, we published some memories of Yale by William Ashby (fourth from right in the second row in this 1915 photo of Yale's... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | February 5 2025 10:00pm

  • Winter white

    Hillhouse Avenue always looks good in snow. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | February 5 2025 03:40am

  • Camouflage

    Dog? What dog? We don't see any dog. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | February 3 2025 10:34pm