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  • Cold morning, hot ticket

    With temperatures in the 30s, students formed a line as long as a football field yesterday morning outside Ray Tompkins House in hope of getting tickets to... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 19 2014 11:04am

  • The little chill

    It may look like fall, but it felt more like winter on the Old Campus this morning. The high today will be in the 30s for the first time this autumn.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 18 2014 11:42am

  • Mystery Monday: stone serpents

    The caduceus is supposed to be a symbol not of medicine but of commerce, derived from its association with the Greek god Hermes. But over the years... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 17 2014 10:55am

  • Throwback Thursday: pre-pigskin picnic

    On Saturday, the football team plays its last home game of the season against Princeton, finishing off a season-long celebration of the Yale... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 13 2014 10:35am

  • Yale's front door

    The New Haven Green is in its glory in the fall. Yale, which inhabits the College Street front of the ancient common, does its part to add to the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 12 2014 08:45am

  • Those who served

    Every year, Yale commemorates Veterans Day on Hewitt Quadrangle with a wreath-laying, speeches, and recognition of veterans among Yale’s... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 11 2014 08:28am

  • Mystery Monday: hard ball

    Another Monday, another carving from a building somewhere on the Yale campus. Can you tell us where it can be found? We’ll update this post with... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 10 2014 08:20am

  • Morning becomes McClellan

    Good morning, Old Campus! It rained all day yesterday, but the sun is back today, playing off the shutters of McClellan Hall.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 7 2014 08:47am

  • Throwback Thursday: the mid-’90s move-off

    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

  • Table for two

    Once its fountain is turned off for the season, Maya Lin’s 1989 sculpture The Women’s Table can be used as, well, a women’s... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 5 2014 08:37am

  • The “tower of sweat” is back

    Now on view is something most current students had never seen before this fall: the tower of Payne Whitney Gymnasium. The tower had been covered in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 4 2014 12:02pm

  • Mystery Monday: culture clash

    The stone carvings throughout the Yale campus depict all kinds of scenes from history, not all of them happy ones. This one reminds us how things in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 3 2014 09:10am

  • Squash team

    Happy Halloween! Every year, all the colleges get a supply of pumpkins for carving over dinner. This is some of Branford College's oeuvre. Photo:... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 31 2014 10:52am

  • Throwback Thursday: fall color, in black and white

    There's nothing new about us bringing you pictures of the campus in autumn, as is demonstrated by this November 1944 cover image of wartime Yale. But... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 30 2014 11:04am

  • Old Campus aflame

    Those trees in front of Vanderbilt Hall had a fiery look this morning. The Old Campus was thoughtfully relandscaped in the late 1990s when the quad... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 29 2014 10:25am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Autumnal apex

    We’re declaring this peak foliage day on campus. It’s beautiful in every direction. ___________________________________________ The... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 28 2014 10:28am

  • Mystery Monday: see span

    Yalies of all generations have passed by this spot, but it has changed a lot in the past few years. Can you tell us where it is? We’ll update... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 27 2014 08:40am

  • Catching rays on Science Hill

    We liked the way Kline Biology Tower was catching the evening light the other day. Students who avoid Science Hill don’t know what they’re... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 24 2014 12:15pm

  • Throwback Thursday: special delivery

    Ten years ago, in our September/October 2004 issue, we profiled School of Nursing professor and midwifery pioneer Helen Varney Burst ’63MSN, which... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 23 2014 10:38am