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  • Throwback Thursday: victory dogs

    Seventy years ago tomorrow, Japan announced its surrender in World War II, and, as documented in our October 1945 issue, the campus celebrated:... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 13 2015 08:45am

  • Throwback Thursday: Dewey defeats Truman

    Our June 1950 issue filled alumni in on the many ways Yale students could “practice the art of public speaking.” This photo featured Yale... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 11 2015 08:51am

  • Throwback Thursday: men in uniform

    Throwback Thursday: alumni will start rolling into town today for the first of two Yale class reunion weekends, and some of them will get perhaps a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 21 2015 08:41am

  • Throwback Thursday: the campus awakes

    Fifty years ago, in our April 1965 issue, we reported for the first time on student activism at Yale—a two-week-long protest over the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 9 2015 08:15am

  • Throwback Thursday: portrait of the CIO as a young man

    We reported last week that chief investment officer David Swensen ’80PhD is getting a tower named after him in recognition of his stewardship of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 2 2015 08:26am

  • Throwback Thursday: horse and buggy era

    This ad for a New Haven carriage maker appeared regularly in the Yale Alumni Weekly (our name until 1937) in the early spring of 1905. Fortunately... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 26 2015 07:43am

  • Throwback Thursday: radio days

    That’s Thor Moser ’86 spinning platters in our March 1985 issue. Moser was general manager of WYBC radio at the time, in the days when the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 19 2015 08:54am

  • Throwback Thursday: hockey al fresco

    From our March 5, 1915, issue: students play hockey on Lake Whitney in Hamden. A hundred years later, they’re still at it, but this weekend’s... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 12 2015 09:02am

  • Throwback Thursday: battle on ice

    Hockey in the days when helmets were optional: that’s Yale and Army on our March 1947 cover. The Bulldogs won that one 9–1.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 5 2015 10:51am

  • Throwback Thursday: bad times for barbers

    Our April 1971 issue included a photo feature called “The Lonely Barber,” in which Stu Rohrer ’74 reported on the hard times faced by... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 29 2015 09:56am

  • Throwback Thursday: dark lady

    Fifty years ago, in our March 1965 issue, a young journalist named Paul Steiger ’64 wrote about a conference at Yale on computers and the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 22 2015 08:20am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Throwback Thursday: students at play

    Students in the 1930s apparently kicked back in their rooms in coats and ties  (although we suspect this scene might have been staged to some... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 15 2015 11:28am

  • Throwback Thursday: nothin’ but net

    Seventy-five years ago in basketball, the shorts were shorter and the nets were longer. That’s T. F. Erickson ’40 (shooting) and A. B. Stevens... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 8 2015 08:50am

  • Throwback Thursday: belly of the Whale

    On our March 1960 cover: “Children of faculty members enjoy regularly scheduled skating at the new Ingalls Rink.” The photo was taken by the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 18 2014 12:04pm

  • Throwback Thursday: snows of yesteryear

    Throwback Thursday: we got snow on campus this morning, but just a dusting—nothing like this scene on our March 1945 cover.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 11 2014 10:43am

  • Throwback Thursday: Lorimer’s arrival

    Our February 1994 cover featured the return to Yale of Linda Koch Lorimer ’77JD as secretary of the university. Twenty years later, Lorimer is... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 4 2014 10:30am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Throwback Thursday: Yale will win

    It's the wrong season and the wrong sport, but something about this photo just seems so right. On our June 1959 cover, Edward Slowik ’60 finishes... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 20 2014 10:28am

  • Throwback Thursday: the mid-’90s move-off

    Throwback Thursday: 20 years ago, writer David Leonhardt ’94 gave us the upshot on the new undergraduate trend toward living off campus. (That's... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 6 2014 10:48am

  • Throwback Thursday: special delivery

    Ten years ago, in our September/October 2004 issue, we profiled School of Nursing professor and midwifery pioneer Helen Varney Burst ’63MSN, which... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 23 2014 10:38am