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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
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As the Special Olympics World Games wind up in Los Angeles this weekend, we recall the 1995 games in New Haven, when Yale welcomed more than 3,000... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 30 2015 08:46am
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After he read our cover story about the building of the Skull and Bones tomb, Carl Wohlenberg ’50 wrote in to remind us of a largely forgotten... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 25 2015 06:50am
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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
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As we continue to bask in the reflected glory of Yale’s decisive win at the 150th Yale-Harvard Regatta, here’s a reminder carved in stone of a... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 10 2015 08:29am
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On Memorial Day, we remember those Yale alumni who gave their lives in service to their country, from the American Revolution to Vietnam.... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 25 2015 10:06am
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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
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This week, Yale announced a $150 million gift from Stephen Schwarzman ’69 to create the Schwarzman Center, a student center and performing arts... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 14 2015 09:00am
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Nathan Hale slept here, as did countless other Yale students from 1750 until 1953, when Connecticut Hall was renovated as office, study, and meeting... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 16 2015 08:15am
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Our May 1969 issue featured an article about how “Black studies,” as it was then called, came to Yale, including portraits of African... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 19 2015 10:36am
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Handsome Dan VII posed with the first Dan for our October 1949 cover. We described him as “a frisky, seven months old, solid white, blue-blooded... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 16 2014 11:20am
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Our February 1958 issue featured a photo essay on student rooms, and the cover image was a strangely awkward one. A note on the cover inside the issue... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 9 2014 11:48am
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