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September 23 2009

Muhammad cartoonist to speak at Yale

Kurt Westergaard’s famous drawing of Muhammad with a bomb for a turban won’t grace the pages of the Yale University Press’s new book when it comes...

August 17 2009

Penn is Mightier?

Penn’s endowment did better, and by better we mean less horribly, than Yale’s in the fiscal year that ended June 30. At least that’s the word from...

Jul/Aug 2008

Band of brothers

Most artists feel discouraged when people assume they're dead. But for Polly Draper ’77, ’80MFA, it's just a sign that her latest...

Sep/Oct 2008

You can quote them

There are often three stages of knowledge about a famous quotation. The first level is the commonly accepted popular attribution. The second level...

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...

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