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  • The snowman cometh

    We got another foot of snow yesterday, some of which went into building this Old Campus sentinel. ___________________________________________ The... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 3 2015 12:21pm

  • Mystery Monday: Y indeed

    This elaborate stone carving sits above the entrance to what Yale building? We’ll update this post with the answer tomorrow. Update: this is the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 2 2015 10:09am

  • A fresh coat

    A new, thin blanket of snow fell on Sterling Memorial Library (and the rest of the campus) this morning—not as disruptive as Winter Storm Juno... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 30 2015 10:27am

  • Throwback Thursday: bad times for barbers

    Our April 1971 issue included a photo feature called “The Lonely Barber,” in which Stu Rohrer ’74 reported on the hard times faced by... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 29 2015 09:56am

  • Back to work

    A day after Winter Storm Juno underwhelmed the campus, it’s business as usual again for students, faculty, and staff.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 28 2015 11:22am

  • Snowpocalypse? Not now.

    Maybe we’re just unimpressed because we remember the 34 inches of snow we got from Nemo two years ago, but this much-hyped blizzard has turned out... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 27 2015 11:11am

  • Mystery Monday: what do you call it?

    Where this photo was taken is no mystery for most of you, but do you know what this walkway is called, and why? We’ll update this post with... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 26 2015 09:00am

  • Death relocates

    As ominous as this message might look to an outsider, students who saw it on the blackboard in Linsly-Chittenden Room 102 went bravely on to LC 211 to... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 23 2015 08:47am

  • Throwback Thursday: dark lady

    Fifty years ago, in our March 1965 issue, a young journalist named Paul Steiger ’64 wrote about a conference at Yale on computers and the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 22 2015 08:20am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Great hall

    The McDougal Common Room at the Hall of Graduate Studies is a comfortable place to stay warm on a chilly afternoon.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 21 2015 08:48am

  • New on the skyline

    Watch this space: a quartet of enormous construction cranes has risen on Prospect Street on the site where two new residential colleges are being built.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 20 2015 09:10am

  • Flashback Friday

    We try to be pretty timely with our Daily Snap photos, but we couldn’t resist posting this one from a week ago, when we stopped to watch Robert... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 16 2015 09:06am

  • Throwback Thursday: students at play

    Students in the 1930s apparently kicked back in their rooms in coats and ties  (although we suspect this scene might have been staged to some... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 15 2015 11:28am

  • Row, row, row

    The Housatonic River is a little chilly right now, but that doesn't mean the crew can't get some practice in at Payne Whitney Gym.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 14 2015 08:59am

  • Corner office

    In the age of laptops and wi-fi, students make themselves comfortable all over campus—including the Loria Center stair landing just below York... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 13 2015 09:15am

  • Mystery Monday: a scholar’s life

    The architects and stone carvers who worked on Yale’s interwar Gothic buildings had a puckish sense of humor. Where on campus can you find this... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 12 2015 08:37am

  • Winter blanket

    Two inches of snow fell on the campus this morning; meanwhile, students and faculty are enjoying the last days of their vacation.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 9 2015 10:15am

  • Throwback Thursday: nothin’ but net

    Seventy-five years ago in basketball, the shorts were shorter and the nets were longer. That’s T. F. Erickson ’40 (shooting) and A. B. Stevens... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 8 2015 08:50am

  • Welcoming environment

    A cold day like today would be a good one to spend in the lounge of Kroon Hall overlooking Science Hill. Kroon has been home to to the School of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 7 2015 08:56am