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  • Throwback Thursday: making a splash

    Our November 21, 1941, cover featured a photo from a Yale Dramat production of Aristophanes’s Frogs, staged by drama student Burt Shevelove in the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 14 2024 09:23pm

  • Now and then: Payne Whitney's predecessors

    We published this photo of two grand Greek Revival houses on York Square in 1929, not long before they were demolished to make room for Payne... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 11 2024 03:00am

  • Shortcut of champions

    The passageway between Morse and Stiles—known to some as Jock Walk—was closed all summer for construction work. We're glad to have it... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 11 2023 08:00am

  • . . . but Yale will win

    The men's basketball team fought off a last-minute Harvard rally Saturday night at the John J. Lee Amphitheater to beat the Crimson 58–54. The... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 9 2023 08:00am

  • Dry dock

    Access to training facilities in Payne Whitney Gymnasium is still limited, so Yale’s rowing teams have taken their workouts outside. James... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 10 2020 08:05am

  • Court TV

    There’s now a monitor at the entrance to the Brady Squash Center at Payne Whitney Gymnasium, so you can watch the play on 14 courts at once. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 17 2020 08:13am

  • Cool running

    It was too hot to run outside in New Haven yesterday. But if you really need to get in your 5K, 25 laps around the Lanman Center track does the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 22 2019 10:36am

  • Small screen, big game

    The action for Yale men’s basketball is in Jacksonville right now, but the game is on at Payne Whitney Gymnasium. Front desk employees Vernon... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 21 2019 01:08pm

  • Temple of sweat

    For the record, there is no truth to the campus legend about how Payne Whitney Gymnasium was designed to look like a church in order to fool a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 7 2019 11:15am

  • Court is in session

    It’s a rainy day in New Haven, but lots of kids are getting their exercise indoors at Payne Whitney Gym. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 28 2018 01:45pm

  • Throwback Thursday: up on the roof

    Our January/February 2018 issue includes a photo essay on Payne Whitney Gymnasium. Coincidentally, so did our January 1968 issue exactly 50 years... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 18 2018 10:28am

  • Courtside

    Sneak preview: our next issue will include a wonderful photo essay on Payne Whitney Gymnasium with pictures by Bob Handelman. In the meantime, does... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 13 2017 11:10am

  • Sweatin’ with the Yalies

    We’ve been spending a lot of time at Payne Whitney Gymnasium lately, and not just because our abs need some work: our next issue will feature... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 28 2017 09:15am

  • Hoops in August

    The Lanman Center at Payne Whitney Gym was getting a good workout yesterday from young athletes at a Yale basketball camp. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 8 2017 08:42am

  • Watercolor

    Above the entrance to the Kiphuth Trophy Room in Payne Whitney Gymnasium is a portrait of the room’s namesake—legendary swimming coach... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 12 2017 08:49am

  • Pilgrimage

    Every now and then we look up as we’re heading into Payne Whitney Gymnasium, and suddenly our plan to spend 30 minutes on a treadmill seems... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 18 2016 08:51am

  • Tower of sweat

    If you manage to look up from your treadmill once in a while, there’s quite a view through the skylight of the Adrian C. "Ace" Israel Fitness... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 22 2016 08:35am

  • The path to Payne

    It’s one of Yale’s most photographed views: the gothic tower of Payne Whitney Gymnasium framed by the eccentric peanut-brittle walls of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 12 2016 09:25am

  • Illuminated

    Where else but at Yale do gymnasts practice their sport beneath Gothic rose windows? The gymnastics studio is located on the eighth floor of Payne... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 22 2016 10:39am