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May/Jun 2012

More news of Yale people

Honored Harold Attridge, who will step down as dean of the Divinity School this June after finishing his second five-year term, has been...

Sep/Oct 2012

The pioneers

Starting after the Civil War, gaining momentum in the 1870s, and reaching full force around 1890, a national push toward coeducation changed US...

Sep/Oct 2012

Object lesson

By the mid-1890s, Rudyard Kipling was often called the most famous living writer in the world. So it is not surprising that a group of Yale...

Sep/Oct 2012

Roping the con artists

Psst. Hey, you. Yeah, you. You’re a smart one. Am I right? You’d know a good investment? You’re not a mark or a sucker. I can...

Jan/Feb 2013

Mr. Emotional Intelligence

Peter Salovey made the national news when he became Yale’s president-elect. But those in the realm of psychology have known Salovey much...

Jan/Feb 2013

What happens when you do the math

This is a story about money and slide rules. Fifty-three years ago this past fall, a Yale student was sitting in his industrial engineering class...

Mar/Apr 2013

Served fresh daily

I’m writing three days after winter storm Nemo, possibly the only event that could have gotten my town of Hamden, Connecticut (those famous 40...

Mar/Apr 2013

A rebel comes home

In 1977, when I was working as a sportswriter for the New Haven Journal-Courier, a humble, now long-shuttered newspaper, Yale appointed a man named...

Mar/Apr 2013

You can quote them: The full monty

In my last column I wrote about the cryptic origins of the widespread phrase “the whole nine yards.” This is the best-known of a class...

Mar/Apr 2013

Sense and sensitivity

I confess to a certain impatience with the antibullying program implemented by the public schools in the city where I live. The students’ new...

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