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Yesterday was the 317th anniversary of Yale's founding by Connecticut's General Assembly—and the fifth Founders Day celebration. The new... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 10 2018 08:32am
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A member of our staff recently toured Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, England. Alums of Yale’s Berkeley College would be pleased to see... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 3 2018 08:23am
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Seventy-five years ago, the campus and our pages were filled with men in uniform. On our August 1943 cover, a civilian freshman offers a light to an... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 19 2018 09:03am
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It was 300 years ago this fall that the Collegiate School (not yet known as Yale) brought its books from its old home in Saybrook to its new one in... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 15 2018 10:21am
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It’s Flag Day in the United States—a good time to take a look at this historic flag, which hung in Woolsey Hall during the Glenn Miller... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 14 2018 09:19am
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Nearly 50 years before Yale launched a plan to transform Commons into a student center, architecture student Peter Hoyt ’70MArch had the same... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 12 2018 10:22am
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What’s this stone carving on the side of Benjamin Franklin College all about? The fact that it faces the Farmington Canal Greenway is a clue:... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 5 2018 09:02am
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Fifty years ago, in our March 1968 issue, we profiled swimmer Don Schollander ’68 on the eve of his second trip to the Olympic Games, where he... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 1 2018 06:50am
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Students, alumni, and New Haven residents gathered in the JE Art Gallery Thursday for a talk on the 1970 May Day protests. Sam Chauncey ’57... Read on
Jack Taperell ’18 | February 23 2018 02:45pm
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It’s easy to miss this stone carving hidden behind a tree on the Elm Street façade of Berkeley College. Rendered (inexplicably) in... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 9 2018 08:56am
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From our January 1943 issue, 75 years ago. Students at Yale during World War II graduated on an accelerated schedule, which meant the Class of 1943... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 25 2018 02:07pm
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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
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Forty years ago today, Yale announced that A. Bartlett Giamatti ’60, ’64PhD, would be the university’s 19th president. He took... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 20 2017 09:02am
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Vincent Scully ’40, ’49PhD, Sterling Professor of the History of Art, died at his home in Lynchburg, Virginia, last night. He was 97... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 1 2017 10:26am
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It is likely that there are players on this year’s football team who were not yet walking—much less tackling—when Yale last beat... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 16 2017 08:25am
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Seventy-five years ago this month, Yale had the war on its mind, but not to the complete exclusion of football. (That’s Handsome Dan V, by the... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 2 2017 01:46pm
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Happy 259th birthday to Yale’s own Noah Webster, lexicographer, founder of New York’s first daily newspaper, and champion of an American... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 16 2017 10:11am |
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Lots of anniversaries to note: one hundred years ago yesterday, Yale laid the cornerstone (pictured) for the Memorial Quadrangle, the residence... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 9 2017 08:26am
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It’s supposed to top 90 degrees for the third straight day today, so we’ve been looking for things to do indoors around here. The... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 21 2017 08:55am
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You’ve heard a lot from us recently about Handsome Dans, past and present, but they’re not the only historic canines linked to Yale. Next... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 20 2017 11:07am
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