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Our August 1932 issue offered a roundup of the remarkable spate of new construction on campus. Here's Trumbull College under way. The residential... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 17 2023 08:22am
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With the Class of 2027 arriving soon, we looked back to our October 1973 issue and found this shot of members of the Class of 1977 enjoying their... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 10 2023 08:00am
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Forty-five years ago this month, the new Yale president A. Bartlett Giamatti ’60, ’64PhD, and his family moved into 43 Hillhouse. We... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 3 2023 08:00am
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65 years ago, in our July 1958 issue, we reported that, thanks to a $15 million gift from Paul Mellon ’29, Yale would build two new... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 27 2023 08:00am
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125 years ago this month, we showed off the expansion plans for the Peabody Museum. The museum had completed the first stage of the building (at far... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 13 2023 08:00am
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Summer was anything but quiet at Yale in July 1943, when more than 7,000 students were on campus in both civilian and military programs. This photo... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 6 2023 08:00am
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Fifty years ago, after the city of New Haven blocked Yale from building two new residential colleges, the university scrambled to find other... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 29 2023 10:02am
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In honor of Pride Month, a look back at our July/August 2009 cover. Inside was a set of reminiscences and articles about LGBTQ life at Yale. We got... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 22 2023 08:00am
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“Resolved, that the Flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 14 2023 08:00am
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This photo from our Summer 2003 issue captured that year's rainy commencement. The Class of 2003 is back for its 20th reunion this weekend; it looks... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 25 2023 03:51pm
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The list of this year's honorary degree recipients is a closely guarded secret until commencement on Monday. One hundred years ago, Yale awarded... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 18 2023 08:00am
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On our May 1963 cover, we paid tribute to Yale president A. Whitney Griswold ’29, ’33PhD, who died of cancer at age 56, sixty years ago yesterday.... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 20 2023 08:00am |
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When we think of Yale's Poynter Fellowship, we think of White House correspondents and managing editors. But 50 years ago, Poynter invited the staff of... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 6 2023 08:00am
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In 1957, Yale tore down the 125-year-old Sheffield House, a historically important Italianate building on lower Hillhouse Avenue, to make room for a... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 23 2023 08:00am
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It looks like a still from Dr. Strangelove, but this photo from our February 1963 issue shows physics professor D. Allan Bromley with a model... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 16 2023 12:12pm
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Today's mystery: what member of the Class of 1714 is memorialized above the door to the Branford head of college house? And what did he and some... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 6 2023 08:00am |
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Alums of a certain age will tell you that back in their day, the gates of the residential colleges were open day and night. It's true, but they... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 23 2023 08:00am
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This Black History Month, let's not forget that two African American men wrote the song that was altered slightly to become "Boola Boola." Bob Cole... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 9 2023 08:00am
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A hundred years ago, the Yale Alumni Weekly brought the news that Robert Maynard Hutchins ’21 was the new secretary of the university at... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 2 2023 02:34pm
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After World War II, veterans came back in droves—often with wives and children—to enroll at Yale. They were greeted by a familiar site:... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 24 2023 03:40pm
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