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  • Throwback Thursday: big entrance

    It’s hard to imagine Yale without Phelps Gate, but Elis had to make a less grand arrival until Phelps Hall and its posh portal were built.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 7 2021 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: sweet memories

    A new grab-and-go food spot in the Schwarzman Center has replaced Durfee’s, the campus convenience store in Durfee Hall. But some of us... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 30 2021 08:27am

  • Throwback Thursday: precious stones

    One hundred years ago in October, ox carts brought three millstones to campus to adorn the brand new Harkness Memorial Quadrangle. They came from... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 23 2021 08:09am

  • Throwback Thursday: changes at Commons

    One hundred years ago this month, we reported on changes in Yale’s then-20-year-old Commons dining hall. Although “it is the same hall... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 9 2021 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: bladderball's heyday

    Fifty years ago this fall, we reported on the 1971 bladderball game, calling it “one of the most durable of Yale institutions.” But it... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 2 2021 07:51am

  • Throwback Thursday: freshmen al fresco

    Twenty-five years ago this month, President Richard Levin ’74PhD welcomed first-year students to Yale at what was then called the Freshman... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 5 2021 08:05am

  • Throwback Thursday: coaches of yore

    Football will be back this fall after a year’s absence, starting with Holy Cross on September 18 and ending with The Game at The Bowl on... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 22 2021 09:30am

  • Throwback Thursday: Wawa remembered

    Twenty-five years ago this month, Annie Murphy Paul ’96 schooled alums on the significance of the Wawa store on York Street. Not long after... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 8 2021 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: way way back

    We've been in the looking-back business for a long time: 100 years ago, we published this photo of the Yale baseball team from 150 years ago. We'd... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 24 2021 07:51am

  • Throwback Thursday: Brewster's birthday

    Kingman Brewster Jr. ’41, who was president of Yale from 1963 to 1977, was born on this date in 1919. Alums, do you have any memories of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 17 2021 07:50am

  • Throwback Thursday: Woolsey in bronze

    One hundred twenty-five years ago today, in our June 10, 1896, issue, we celebrated the upcoming dedication of the Theodore Dwight Woolsey statue... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 10 2021 07:39am

  • Throwback Thursday: Spirit of '71

    One of the things we’ll miss about in-person reunions this year is the mingling of alumni across the generations. New Yorker cartoonist... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 27 2021 08:03am

  • Throwback Thursday: building a movement

    Thirty-five years ago this spring, student activists built a shanty town on Beinecke Plaza as a protest against Yale’s investments in South... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 6 2021 09:39am

  • Throwback Thursday: rowing on the river

    Twenty years ago this month, we celebrated the new Gilder Boathouse on our cover. Alums, what do you remember most about rowing on the Housatonic at... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 22 2021 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: 'stache bash

    Ten years ago, we covered the School of the Environment’s annual mustache contest. In a scene unthinkable in pandemic times, Ryan Sarsfield... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 15 2021 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: postwar prom

    On an April night 75 years ago, Yale students savored the return of a tradition interrupted by war: the Yale Prom. With luck and diligence, the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 8 2021 07:57am

  • Throwback Thursday: memories of madness

    In the midst of a year without varsity sports at Yale, let’s pause to remember five years ago, when the men’s basketball team notched... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 18 2021 07:54am

  • Throwback Thursday: getting back to normal

    Seventy-five years ago, from our March 1946 issue, a scene of postwar life: returning veteran students “relaxing” (in suit and tie) with... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 18 2021 08:12am

  • Throwback Thursday: Glee

    Our February 1961 cover, designed by Norman Ives ’52MFA, commemorated the centennial of the Yale Glee Club. Any Glee Club alums out there? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 11 2021 08:01am