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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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  • The swimming lesson

    Even after I passed all the important entry requirements for Yale—SATs, interviews, essays, and high school transcript—one final test... Read on
    Andrew Letendre ’58 | August 1 2016 08:55am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • The naked truth about Yale’s posture program

    My first weeks at Yale in 1953 were filled with all sorts of interviews and tests, written and physical. I got through the written ones with no problems.... Read on
    Andrew Letendre ’58 | June 22 2015 02:09pm

  • 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

  • Light, truth, and Peter Rabbit

    In the spring of 2014, I stood at our college reunion, in the Timothy Dwight courtyard, under a gigantic tent shielding us from the pounding rain. A friend... Read on
    Amy Kaufman Burk ’80 | May 28 2015 03:00pm | Ico comments 1 comment

  • ‘We smoked our pipes and took our ease’

    Back in the 1950s, smoking a pipe was as much the fashion at Yale as button-down Gant shirts and scuffed white bucks. I wasn’t a smoker, but when I... Read on
    Andrew Letendre ’58 | May 21 2015 02:54pm | Ico comments 4 comments

  • Rules of bathroom engagement (Feb. 1998)

    At the beginning of the fall semester, I woke up one morning to find a creepy-looking pair of cardboard eyes staring at me from the far corner of... Read on
    Sandy Christopher ’99 | February 1 1998 11:47am

  • Learning to love the swing dorm (Dec. 1999)

    Like many Yale students, I’ve always prided myself on my residential college spirit. I adore Branford’s courtyard (the most beautiful in... Read on
    Frances Brown ’02 | December 1 1999 08:32am

  • Seeking God in Davies Auditorium (May 1999)

    Discussions in the common room at two in the morning: We’ve all had them. These are the moments of pure intellectual curiosity we think of when... Read on
    Ariel Adesnik ’99 | May 1 1999 07:51am

  • The perils of total TV (Feb. 1999)

    Every new year at Yale brings some sort of change to undergraduate life. Some changes, like the decision to limit the number of courses an... Read on
    Sandy Christopher ’99 | February 1 1999 08:38am

  • Spandex chic (Dec. 1998)

    The mythic Yale man of years past excelled both in the classroom and on the playing fields. And while some might fear that Yale’s days as a... Read on
    Sandy Christopher ’99 | December 1 1998 08:32am

  • You’ve gotta chalk the walk (Nov. 1998)

    Every day, the Yale campus is inundated with flyers, posters, table tents, and notices in the Yale Daily News advertising a staggering assortment... Read on
    Sandy Christopher ’99 | November 1 1998 08:25am

  • At home at Yale: Daily life in a master’s house (Feb. 1994)

    Caring for undergraduates outside the classroom these days may mean visits to the emergency room, but, as the wife of Trumbull College Master Harry... Read on
    Manette Fishwick Adams ’49MA | February 1 1994 10:36am

  • 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

  • Class Day and Commencement (Summer 1995)

    For all the turmoil on the national and the international stages, the closing ceremonies of the 1994–95 academic year proved to be classics of... Read on
    Annie Murphy Paul ’95 | July 1 1995 10:26am

  • Memorable mentoring (Mar. 1993)

    Memories of great Yale teachers gleam through the decades, “stars of the summer night,” as we used to sing, and now “far down yon azure... Read on
    Emerson Stone ’48 | March 1 1993 07:40am

  • A century of women at Yale (Oct. 1992)

    In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the admission of women to Yale’s PhD programs, the Graduate School last April held a three-day... Read on
    Nannerl Keohane ’67PhD | October 1 1992 08:29am

  • Couches! Futons! Cheap! (Oct. 1997)

    There are a number of ways to look at Yale. In movies, Yale usually gets pegged as a factory that produces people who like to wear blue blazers and... Read on
    Sandy Christopher ’99 | October 1 1997 02:35pm

  • 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

  • Learning to love the East (Feb. 96)

    On a clear, brisk day late this November, a Californian friend of mine walked outside wearing shorts. He’s a freshman. I put a gloved hand on... Read on
    Michelle Chihara ’96 | February 1 1996 01:11pm