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  • Good timing

    Yesterday was one of five designated “break days”—scattered throughout the spring semester in lieu of a conventional spring... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 10 2021 08:09am

  • Time for a short break

    In a normal year, most of Yale would be on spring break this week. But to accommodate a compressed pandemic schedule—and to discourage... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 9 2021 08:02am

  • Mystery Monday: can you handle it?

    That’s some serious hardware. Who knows where on campus this picture was taken? By the way, last week’s Mystery Monday is still... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 8 2021 08:10am

  • Way down

    Hewitt Quadrangle looks much the same as it did before the massive renovation and  construction project that created the Schwarzman Center. One... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 5 2021 09:01am

  • Women's studies

    If you’re lucky enough to have access to Sterling Memorial Library right now, you can see the exhibition 12 Portraits: Studies of Women at... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 4 2021 08:15am

  • Oh say, can you see?

    The flag is flying once again on the Ledyard Flagstaff on Hewitt Quadrangle. Still awaiting the return of the Calder sculpture to make the quad... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 3 2021 08:00am

  • Witchcraft

    Every year, we celebrate the arrival of witch hazel on campus, a reassuring sign of spring. We saw these blossoms on the Farmington Canal Greenway... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 2 2021 08:00am

  • Mystery Monday: metal head

    It took us decades to notice a row of creatures like this one atop a pair of campus gates. Are they donkeys? Mythical yales? Let us know what you... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 1 2021 08:00am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Optimistic

    It’s been a week of sunny weather and significant thawing. And we’ve almost made it through February! Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 26 2021 08:28am

  • Running in place

    Students are in the last stage of quarantine until March 1, which means they still can’t leave the campus. So runners accustomed to jogs... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 25 2021 11:26am

  • When the play's not the thing

    Yale’s theaters are still dark, so the Yale Rep is using its poster cases to promote good pandemic practices with (slightly altered) quotes... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 24 2021 07:58am

  • 28 days

    February, looking pretty February on Old Campus. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 23 2021 08:19am

  • Clearing the way

    New Haven has seen almost three feet of snow so far this winter. But it doesn’t stay on Yale’s sidewalks for long, thanks to the hard... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 22 2021 08:08am

  • Mission accomplished

    The facilities people are just trying to protect the new lawn recently installed at Sachem’s Wood on Science Hill. But with another six inches... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 19 2021 07:53am

  • Throwback Thursday: getting back to normal

    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

  • Still standing

    A lot of us feel like this Cross Campus snowperson looks as we try to keep it all together this February. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 17 2021 08:11am

  • A walk in the snow

    The northern colleges (Benjamin Franklin on the left, Pauli Murray on the right) looked handsome in the twilight the other night. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 16 2021 07:48am

  • Hail to the chiefs

    Happy Presidents Day! In 1962, John F. Kennedy became the 11th US president to receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Yale. In all, 14... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 15 2021 08:38am

  • Downhill from there

    Yesterday was a beautiful day to try out Yale’s best sledding hill, behind the Sterling Divinity Quadrangle. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 12 2021 08:32am