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Memories

Recollections of Yale, across the decades. Send your own memories to be considered for posting to yam@yale.edu, with subject line “For Memories.”

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  • Defending the Bard in a time of strife

    C-SPAN recently broadcast an event at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., celebrating “400 Years of Shakespeare.” People from all... Read on
    Nathan Wise ’72 | July 21 2016 03:14pm | Ico comments 2 comments

  • A Fasching party at HGS

    In February 1958, when we were grad students living in the Hall of Graduate Studies, Charlie Neff ’61PhD and I wistfully shared our memories of the German “fifth... Read on
    Charles B. Teske ’62PhD | June 11 2015 11:04am

  • The wages of excess (Apr. 1999)

    While Dartmouth inspired the classic fraternity film Animal House, and Princeton has more recently made the national news for its “Nude... Read on
    Sandy Christopher ’99 | April 1 1999 08:44am

  • Pondering “The Women’s Table” (Dec. 1993)

    The sculpture installed on the Cross Campus in October to honor the role of women at Yale set one recent alumna to thinking about some things she had taken... Read on
    Karen Alexander ’93 | December 1 1993 10:07am

  • If it’s Wednesday, it must be Woodward (Feb. 1995)

    Carefree as the “shortest, gladdest years” are supposed to be, they can become pretty routine. Mundane chores reduce the academic day to a... Read on
    Elana Zeide ’96 | February 1 1995 01:18pm

  • Faith under pressure (Nov. 1993)

    In an art history class I took during my freshman year, the professor displayed a slide of one of Michelangelo’s famous frescoes on the ceiling of... Read on
    Annie Murphy Paul ’95 | November 1 1993 02:59pm

  • The Duke & I (Oct. 2002)

    Edward Kennedy Ellington was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1967. A Yale biologist tells how the Duke became Doc. The Duke & I October 2002 by... Read on
    Arthur W. Galston | October 1 2002 10:14am

  • Midnight madness at the symphony (Oct. 2001)

    When it’s Halloween, Yalies haunt the Yale Symphony Orchestra. Midnight madness at the symphony October 2001 by Frances Brown ’02 Read on
    Frances Brown ’02 | October 1 2001 10:20am

  • Name that note (or else!) (Oct. 2000)

    In search of the middle note: the terrors of the singing group audition. Name that note (or else!) October 2000 by Frances Brown ’02 Read on
    Frances Brown ’02 | October 1 2000 09:41am