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  • Throwback Thursday: the ghost of tours past

    One of the many things we miss right now is the steady stream of tourists following student guides around the campus, a ritual that looks much the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 2 2020 07:50am

  • Throwback Thursday: a monument to both sides

    Recent talk about Confederate monuments sent us to our archives, where we found this photo of Yale’s Civil War Memorial at the time of its... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 25 2020 07:51am

  • Throwback Thursday: commencement in a tumultuous time

    Fifty years ago this week, Yale celebrated its 269th commencement, just weeks after the campus and New Haven were gripped by the May Day protests.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 11 2020 09:31am

  • Throwback Thursday: Class of ’15

    This weekend, the Yale Class of 2015 was supposed to have its first reunion. This page from our June 1980 issue features the Class of 1915 at its... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 28 2020 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: where there's smoke

    In 1957, a magazine editor might still put a cancer researcher smoking a cigarette on the cover and not see the irony. But a  sharp-eyed... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 4 2020 07:40am

  • Throwback Thursday: flying Elis

    A hundred years ago this week, we were celebrating Yale’s win in the first annual Intercollegiate Flying Meet in Mineola, New York.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 21 2020 07:54am

  • Remembered in vane

    Today is the 268th anniversary of the birth of theologian, educator, and poet Timothy Dwight, who was president of Yale from 1795 to 1817. Timothy... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 14 2020 08:10am

  • Victory in Europe

    Today is the 75th anniversary of VE-Day, when German surrender in World War II was formally accepted by the Allied forces. “We have passed a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 8 2020 07:53am

  • May Day + 50

    Fifty years ago today, crowds packed the New Haven Green to protest the trial of Black Panther Bobby Seale. Amid incidents of violence on other... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 1 2020 07:37am

  • The first Earth Day

    Today is the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day. Daphne Gemmill ’72MPH, who was a member of the Yale group Environmental Action in 1970... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 22 2020 07:12am

  • Throwback Thursday: remember George & Harry's?

    Our March/April story on New Haven pizza prompted an alum to ask when George & Harry’s on Wall Street became Naples Pizza. The answer is... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 26 2020 07:58am

  • Eli go bragh

    Happy St. Patrick’s Day! This gentleman is William Erigena Robinson, Class of 1841, 1842 Law, Yale’s first student from Ireland. He went... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 17 2020 07:54am

  • Can't be too careful

    Today is Friday the 13th, which got us thinking about Yale superstitions, two of which are suggested by this photo. Depending on who's telling the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 13 2020 08:02am

  • Happy birthday, by George!

    Happy 335th birthday to George Berkeley, the Anglo-Irish philosopher, bishop, and early benefactor of Yale. (Berkeley College, the Berkeley Divinity... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 12 2020 08:23am

  • Snows of yesteryear

    We illustrated our March 1945 cover with a snowy campus scene. Seventy-five years later, we’re looking out today at a campus that hasn't seen... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 2 2020 10:19am

  • Happy half century, Becton!

    The Becton Center was dedicated 50 years ago today. Designed by Marcel Breuer, the building serves the School of Engineering and Applied Science.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 21 2020 08:52am

  • Still the Oldest College Daily

    Happy Birthday to the Yale Daily News, which turns 142 today! We’re especially grateful to the News for founding the Yale Alumni... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 28 2020 08:36am

  • Memento

    If you visit the Yale Bands HQ in Hendrie Hall, you might run across this mellophone, autographed at the request of the members of the Yale... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 6 2020 08:46am

  • Big reveal

    Yale’s oldest building, Connecticut Hall, has emerged after months behind scaffolding for a window and masonry restoration project. If it... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 7 2019 08:35am