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Nov/Dec 2008

Harvard beats Yale 29–29

The 1968 Yale-Harvard game -- the famous 29–29 tie -- is one of those sporting events, like Bobby Thomson's home run or Don Larsen's perfect...

Sep/Oct 2009

Who really wrote “Boola Boola”?

The authorship of Yale's iconic fight song “Boola Boola” has traditionally been ascribed to Allan M. Hirsh, Class of 1901. In October...

May/Jun 2012

You can quote them

The Ivy League is an odd institution, a grouping of colleges that was based entirely on football rivalries but has assumed enormous academic...

Jul/Aug 2017

The man who made time workable

According to the Wall Street Daily News of November 16, 1904, “It is related that Chauncey M. Depew [’56], once being asked whom he...

Nov/Dec 2018

The tie that binds

Nobody who lived through the 1968 Yale-Harvard football game has ever forgotten it. It is surely the most remarkable game in the long history of the...

Mar/Apr 2019

Reviews: March/April 2019

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of FreedomDavid W. Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of American HistorySimon & Schuster, $37.50Reviewed by Imani...

Mar 2000

Days of Duck and Cover

by Mark Alden Branch ’86 March 2000 Most of this year's Yale seniors were 11 in 1989, when the fall of the Berlin Wall became the Cold War...

Mar 1999

Blast from the Past

March 1999 by Mark Alden Branch ’86 "I'm living in a goldfish bowl. A concrete-and-glass goldfish bowl." Robert A. M. Stern, who graduated from the...

Sep/Oct 2007

Object Lesson

Theatrical costumes are so much more than clothes. The best ones tell stories, using hemlines and fabrics to let us know exactly what world we’re...

Mar 2001

Quarrels with Providence

Lewis Lapham ’56 won the National Magazine Award in 1995 for essays and criticism. The author of nine books, among them Money and Class in America...

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