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Jan/Feb 2011

Playing the numbers

Thank you, Camp Young Judaea, for assigning two sports-crazed 12-year-olds to bunk seven in 1984. These two onetime bunkmates, despite divergent...

August 13 2013

From WH Taft to WF Buckley:new home for Yale conservatives

It's not quite The House That Bill Built, but it will do. Yale's William F. Buckley Jr. Program—founded by students in 2011 to "promote...

July 5 2013

Ben Franklin was a Yalie?

While we're honoring our Founding Fathers this holiday weekend, take a peek at this eighteenth-century bust of Benjamin Franklin, carved from North...

April 1 2014

Ivy times eight: this kid got accepted everywhere

Kwasi Enin "would cross Long Island Sound to attend Yale," Newsday reports. Well, who wouldn't, since Yale rejects 94 of every 100 applicants? Maybe...

February 16 2015

Hail to the chiefs

It’s Presidents Day, you say? We've had a few things to say about US presidents over the past few years. • In May/June 2011, biographer...

Jan/Feb 2015

Challenging the unchallengeable (sort of)

“The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable...

Sep/Oct 2020

The demagogue

Senator William Benton had had enough. He’d watched for 18 months as his Red-baiting colleague Joe McCarthy slung unsustainable charges...

Jan/Feb 2020

When alumni got the vote

On March 21, 1872, in an item on the front page of the New York Times, the Yale Corporation asked “all graduates of the College qualified to...

Jan/Feb 2022

A reckoning with our past

Along with dozens of other schools, Yale has opened a long-closed door to a part of its past that had been hidden. In the following pages...

Jul/Aug 2011

Inventor of anti-HIV drug dies

Pharmacologist William H. Prusoff saved the lives of millions through his development of a key component in the first drug cocktail to treat...

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