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Ninety years ago, we featured polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth ’03S on our January 24, 1936, cover. Ellsworth and Herbert Hollick-Kenyon had... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 28 2026 03:13am
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How are you going to follow The Game on Saturday? At a watch party? Streaming at home? One hundred years ago, in our December 4, 1925, issue, we... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 19 2025 03:41pm
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This classic wall clock is on display in the Yale University Art Gallery. It was created in 1947 by an industrial designer who found his calling in... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 6 2025 07:01am |
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A statue of Yung Wing, Class of 1854, was moved over the summer from Sterling Library's Memorabilia Room to the exhibition corridor. Yung, later an... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 20 2025 01:47am
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An installation by artist Leo Villareal ’90 called Celestial Garden (Yale) has taken over the dome room in the Schwarzman Center through... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 15 2025 06:08am
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Last week, we reported that Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, the iconic sculpture by Claes Oldenburg ’52, was removed from the Morse... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 31 2025 05:31am
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A biography of William F. Buckley Jr. ’50 by Sam Tanenhaus ’78MA was published earlier this month, a few months before what would have... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 26 2025 05:13am
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This banner, donated to YAM years ago by the family of Vance Dittman Jr. ’25, ’27LLB, and Catherine Pierson Dittman... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 25 2025 11:46am
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Another shot of reuniongoers in parade costumes: this one is from 1930, when the Class of 1924 dressed as wooden soldiers. Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 29 2025 12:00am
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The math is admittedly simple, but for some of us superannuated alums, the idea of a class beginning with a "2" having its 25th reunion just doesn't... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 23 2025 05:51am
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If you are trying to decide what to wear to your reunion this weekend, you might be interested to know that returning Yale classes used to sport... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 22 2025 12:00am
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The music world celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of Charles Ives last fall, and a display of Ives-related artifacts from the Irving S.... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 18 2025 10:00pm
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Fifty years ago tonight, Richard Nixon announced that he would resign as president of the United States. At noon the next day, Gerald R. Ford... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 7 2024 08:00pm
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We've heard it from Yale College alums more times than we can count: “the class notes are the first things I turn to in the magazine.” It's probably... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 25 2024 12:00am
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Happy Pride Month! In February 1984, the Yale Alumni Magazine published a simple half-page ad purchased by the relatively new group Yale Gay... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 26 2024 03:26am
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Forty years ago, in our June 1984 issue, we reported on a visit to campus by actor Vincent Price ’33 for a Film Study Center retrospective of... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 13 2024 12:00am
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When alumni these days get a class baseball cap or t-shirt on arrival at their reunions, it's a vestige of what was once a parade of elaborate class... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 29 2024 08:00pm
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Via livestream this morning, Yale announced the appointment of Maurie McInnis ’96PhD as the university's next president, taking office on July... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 29 2024 07:02am
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Out with the commencement chairs, in with the reunion tents: Yale welcomes back the classes of 1954, 1959, 1964, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004, and 2009... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 22 2024 08:29am |
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There is a significant overlap between Yale alumni and crossword-puzzle aficionados, and apparently that's nothing new. In our January 16, 1925... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 8 2024 10:45pm
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