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On this day in 1776, Nathan Hale, Class of 1773, was executed by the British for espionage in New York. Tradition holds that his last words were... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 22 2021 07:56am
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On display in Paul Rudolph Hall through December 10, “Rooms: Yale School of Architecture Graduate Women Alums, 1942–” features... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 21 2021 08:00am
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Sixty years ago, when the nation was in a frenzy of interstate highway construction, we ran a photo essay on a little-known Yale program called the... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 16 2021 08:03am
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Today is the birthday of Edward Bouchet (1852–1918), a New Haven–born physicist who graduated from Yale College in 1874 and earned his... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 15 2021 08:05am
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One hundred years ago this month, we reported on changes in Yale’s then-20-year-old Commons dining hall. Although “it is the same hall... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 9 2021 08:00am
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Fifty years ago this fall, we reported on the 1971 bladderball game, calling it “one of the most durable of Yale institutions.” But it... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 2 2021 07:51am
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Seventy-five years ago this fall, we showed how undergraduate life looked a little different in the aftermath of World War II, as returning veterans... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 19 2021 08:09am
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Twenty-five years ago this month, President Richard Levin ’74PhD welcomed first-year students to Yale at what was then called the Freshman... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 5 2021 08:05am
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As the plaque tells you, Yale’s alma mater was written in this campus building. Can you search through memory's haze and tell us which building? Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 19 2021 08:00am |
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In 1972, we reported on the loss of one of the last remaining elms that once lined Hillhouse Avenue. The denuded view seen here will be familiar to... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 15 2021 08:27am
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Fifty years ago today, the university launched the Yale Health Plan, a first-of-its-kind university HMO, in what the Yale Daily News called a... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 1 2021 07:52am |
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We've been in the looking-back business for a long time: 100 years ago, we published this photo of the Yale baseball team from 150 years ago. We'd... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 24 2021 07:51am
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Kingman Brewster Jr. ’41, who was president of Yale from 1963 to 1977, was born on this date in 1919. Alums, do you have any memories of... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 17 2021 07:50am
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One hundred twenty-five years ago today, in our June 10, 1896, issue, we celebrated the upcoming dedication of the Theodore Dwight Woolsey statue... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 10 2021 07:39am
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Who remembers Hewitt Quadrangle before the Beinecke Library was built? This image from our July 1946 cover shows the first peacetime commencement... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 20 2021 08:09am
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Thirty-five years ago this spring, student activists built a shanty town on Beinecke Plaza as a protest against Yale’s investments in South... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 6 2021 09:39am
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Forty years ago, on May 6, 1981, the design of Maya Lin ’81, ’86MArch, was revealed to be the winner of the competition for the Vietnam... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 29 2021 08:22am
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On an April night 75 years ago, Yale students savored the return of a tradition interrupted by war: the Yale Prom. With luck and diligence, the... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 8 2021 07:57am
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Where on campus can you find this tribute to the “first rector of ye colledege?" To be clear, Pierson does not in fact lie there; the... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 5 2021 07:47am |
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Seventy-five years ago, from our March 1946 issue, a scene of postwar life: returning veteran students “relaxing” (in suit and tie) with... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 18 2021 08:12am
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