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Jul/Aug 2018

Drawing a larger circle

These are the months and years when people tend to make a lot of plans. Some are practical: you schedule flights and rent apartments and consider...

Jan/Feb 2022

A voice against slavery

“We would say to all the friends of justice: remit no vigilance, slacken no effort, suspend no prayer, pass by no means that can aid in...

Mar/Apr 2010

Advice for the language-lorn

Dear Sir, — In the sentence, “I saw the children in the garden,” is the phrase, in the garden, adjective or...

Sep/Oct 2014

Drinking at Yale

With great excitement I read the interview with President Peter Salovey (“Undergraduates and Alcohol”) in the July/August issue. He...

Nov/Dec 2014

Excellent Sheep author faces the flock

When William Deresiewicz arrived at a Morse College master’s tea in September to discuss his new book—which argues that elite colleges...

Jan/Feb 2016

Building a better student body

Yale’s golden age of physical fitness began in 1892, when a grand neo-Roman style gymnasium replaced the 1859 building on Library Street that...

Jan/Feb 2016

Our readers respond

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

Mar/Apr 2016

Yale’s first student from Ireland

When William E. Robinson, Class of 1841, ’42Law, died in 1892, the Yale Obituary Record saluted his service as a US Congressman and his...

Jul/Aug 2017

Who needs the Great Books?

One of my dearest possessions from my undergraduate days is a faded t-shirt. It was once white, though its color now resembles the hue of...

Sep/Oct 2017

Silver on the Texas frontier

Engraved on the front of this silver tumbler, which was hand wrought on the Texas frontier in the mid-nineteenth century, are the initials of its...

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