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December 2025

  • Frozen

    The Shops at Yale is sponsoring holiday events on Chapel Street and Broadway this season, including ice carving demonstrations. This one was from... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | December 18 2025 09:53pm

  • Throwback Thursday: deconstructing Osborn Hall

    The cover of our May 14, 1926, issue documented the passing of a short-lived Yale landmark. Osborn Hall, a classroom building at College and Chapel... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | December 18 2025 03:09am

  • Ain't it thrilin’?

    Today is the last day of finals, and most remaining students will soon be on their way home. As seen in this photo from Sunday morning, New Haven... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | December 17 2025 05:49am

  • Books and bread and black bean soup

    “Countless tears are dropped into Atticus bread baskets. Here Yalies apologize, discuss, court, forgive, and remember.” Back in 1996... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | December 15 2025 01:10pm

  • Abundant caution

    The gates to the Old Campus are locked today. After the shootings in Sydney and at Brown this weekend, head of public safety Duane Lovello emailed... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | December 14 2025 04:42pm

  • Paging John Waters

    Why were there about a dozen pink flamingos in the front yard of Scroll and Key on Wednesday afternoon? Your guess is as good as ours. And we know... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | December 12 2025 05:05am

  • Throwback Thursday: room with a view

    The recent deaths of former School of Architecture dean Robert A. M. Stern ’65MArch and former visiting faculty member Frank Gehry reminded us... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | December 10 2025 03:54am

  • Final boss

    Final exams in Yale College began today. Even forty years later, some of us get a little queasy when we see a blue book. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | December 10 2025 08:46am

  • Motown comes to Broadway

    With 60-something pizza joints in New Haven, is there room for one more? The proprietors of Bobbi's, which opened this fall on Broadway (in the spot... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | December 9 2025 04:44am

  • Study break

    Patrons of Sterling Memorial Library filed out into below-freezing temperatures a little after 1 pm when a fire alarm went off in the building.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | December 8 2025 03:21am

  • Tribute

    Flowers appeared this week around a stone caricature of architect Robert A. M. Stern ’65MArch on the side of Pauli Murray College. Stern, who... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | December 5 2025 03:54am

  • Throwback Thursday: fish tales

    You've all been there: You're at a tailgate or a reunion, and some Old Blue wants to tell you about the glory days of Yale athletics. So you've... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | December 3 2025 03:29am

  • Foot traffic

    The intersection of College, Grove, Prospect, and Tower is Yale's busiest pedestrian corner, the hinge point between central campus and Science... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | December 3 2025 08:06am