Our October 1964 issue reported a political shift among Yale students: a "significant majority" of the incoming Class of 1968 considered themselves... Read on
Our February 1980 cover featured Rueben Aguilera ’80, one of 12 seniors enrolled in Yale's Scholars of the House program that year. From 1946... Read on
Yale's 151st varsity football team—or Team 151, as they style themselves—has its season opener on Saturday at Holy Cross. We just ran across this... Read on
Fifty years ago this fall, as we reported in our October 1974 issue, students arrived to find 33 new pin oak trees had been planted on Old Campus.... Read on
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
A nice surprise in the renovated L&B Reading Room in Sterling Library: a decommissioned pneumatic tube station that had been in the room years... Read on
Fifty years ago tonight, Richard Nixon announced that he would resign as president of the United States. At noon the next day, Gerald R. Ford... Read on
As we watch sixteen Yale students and alumni compete for nine different countries in this year's Olympic rowing events in Paris, we thought about a... Read on
We've heard it from Yale College alums more times than we can count: “the class notes are the first things I turn to in the magazine.” It's probably... Read on
In June, Yale filed a notice of intent to demolish Helen Hadley Hall, the 65-year-old Temple Street dormitory originally built to house women... Read on
Our June 12, 1931, cover featured a Yale College tradition: the Fence Oration. Over the decades, strictly observed student customs had developed... Read on
Happy Pride Month! In February 1984, the Yale Alumni Magazine published a simple half-page ad purchased by the relatively new group Yale Gay... Read on
The Graves-Gilman House at 37 Hillhouse is currently being renovated to provide office and meeting space for the linguistics department, the... Read on
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Forty years ago, in our June 1984 issue, we reported on a visit to campus by actor Vincent Price ’33 for a Film Study Center retrospective of... Read on
When alumni these days get a class baseball cap or t-shirt on arrival at their reunions, it's a vestige of what was once a parade of elaborate class... Read on
This cover of our magazine is almost 100 years old, but the scene it depicts is much older: a photo of the Old Campus from 1864 that would have... Read on
There is a significant overlap between Yale alumni and crossword-puzzle aficionados, and apparently that's nothing new. In our January 16, 1925... Read on