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May/Jun 2015

Iphigenia at the Yale Bowl

In the spring of 1915, a massive temple was erected on the field of the Yale Bowl. It was 160 feet long, stood 30 feet tall at each end, and rose to...

Jul/Aug 2015

Repair the world!

Colleagues, friends, families, graduating seniors: it is such a pleasure for me to greet you today and offer a few words on everyone’s...

Sep/Oct 2015

All American

Even before Walter Camp joined the Yale freshman squad in 1876, football captain Eugene Baker ’77 could see that he was a powerful runner in...

Nov/Dec 2015

Launching a difficult conversation

Good morning and welcome, Class of 2019, family members, and colleagues sharing the stage with me. To our entering students: I hope this is the most...

Jan/Feb 2016

Reviews: January/February 2016

Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and WarningTimothy Snyder, Yale Professor of HistoryTim Duggan Books, $30Reviewed by Timothy Nunan Timothy...

Jan/Feb 2016

Our readers respond

Congratulations to Richard Conniff for the wonderful memorial to Professor G. Evelyn Hutchinson (“The Founder of Modern Ecology,”...

Jan/Feb 2016

Race, speech, and values

First of all, it was nothing like the sixties. During the heated debates at Yale over race and free speech in November, the surge of media and...

Mar/Apr 2016

Audubon’s works, off the endangered list

In 1873, a teenaged budding ornithologist named Charles Cowles noticed something strange at his father’s copper refinery. On one of the...

Mar/Apr 2016

Was Henry VIII brain-damaged?

King Henry VIII of England is the latest addition to the list of athletes whose erratic behavior and inventory of symptoms were likely the result of...

Mar/Apr 2016

Reviews: March/April 2016

The Death of CancerVincent Devita, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, and Elizabeth Devita Raeburn Sarah Crichton Books, $28Reviewed by Lisa...

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