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  • Blue heaven

    After a succession of gray days last week, we're glad to see the sky once again turn our favorite color. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 6 2024 04:51am

  • Now and then: before Beinecke

    We're not sure of the date of this mid-twentieth-century photo of Hewitt Quadrangle before the Beinecke Library was built, but there was more ivy... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 14 2023 03:24am

  • Honoring those who served

    Hundreds of people—including students, faculty, and staff who are military veterans—gathered on Hewitt Quadrangle Friday for Yale's... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 13 2023 03:43am

  • A banner day

    “Resolved, that the Flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 14 2023 08:00am

  • Lighting the way

    Part of the renovation of Commons and Memorial Hall as the Schwarzman Center involved new exterior lighting to highlight the buildings'... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 27 2023 09:22am

  • Conspicuously absent

    When you walk this campus frequently, sometimes you’re surprised by what you don’t see. That includes the Alexander Calder sculpture... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 28 2022 08:46am

  • A place to pause

    Yesterday was one of those admissions-brochure days when everyone is outside. Most remarkably, the formerly lonely Hewitt Quadrangle has become a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 14 2022 08:21am

  • A little closer to the sun

    Yesterday’s springlike weather was just made for sitting on the walls outside Commons. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 15 2022 08:00am

  • A day to remember

    For the first time since 2016, Yale’s annual Veterans Day observance was held on Hewitt Quadrangle yesterday in front of the newly restored... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 12 2021 08:00am

  • Airborne

    The sea of granite that is Hewitt Quadrangle (aka Beinecke Plaza) has long been irresistible to skateboarders. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 28 2021 08:24am

  • Table service

    One pandemic innovation we hope is permanent: the abundance of outdoor tables and chairs on campus. They have made Beinecke Plaza a much more lively... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 1 2021 08:45am

  • Mobile, home

    After a three-year sabbatical in the Art Gallery sculpture garden, the Alexander Calder sculpture Gallows and Lollipops is back in its... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 14 2021 07:54am

  • Brown-bagging

    Commons is now open for lunch again, but before the official opening on Wednesday the dining hall offered grab-and-go meals for students on Tuesday... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 3 2021 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: postwar procession

    Who remembers Hewitt Quadrangle before the Beinecke Library was built? This image from our July 1946 cover shows the first peacetime commencement... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 20 2021 08:09am

  • Way down

    Hewitt Quadrangle looks much the same as it did before the massive renovation and  construction project that created the Schwarzman Center. One... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 5 2021 09:01am

  • Oh say, can you see?

    The flag is flying once again on the Ledyard Flagstaff on Hewitt Quadrangle. Still awaiting the return of the Calder sculpture to make the quad... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 3 2021 08:00am

  • Back at its post

    Two and a half years after it was removed for the Schwarzman Center construction project, the cenotaph at the center of Yale’s World War I... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 5 2021 08:20am

  • Say no to the snow

    Did you ever notice that there’s rarely any accumulation of snow on Beinecke Plaza? Here’s why: a hot-water circulation system below the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 4 2020 07:56am

  • Pole watcher

    We spotted an old friend in Hewitt Quadrangle: the Ledyard Flagstaff, which was temporarily removed two years ago when construction of the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 30 2020 08:30am