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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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  • 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

  • ‘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

  • "Dar Schicken to Yale": a wartime seder (Mar/Apr 2005)

    This is a story about philosemitism at Yale 60 years ago. At that time, Yale policy did not forbid either quotas for the admission of Jews or... Read on
    N. Joel Ehrenkrantz ’45W, ’49MD | February 28 2005 10:50pm

  • 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

  • Booking the big one (Summer 1999)

    For the last three years I have watched other Yalies graduate. From an outsider’s perspective, Commencement looked like a happy weekend that... Read on
    Sandy Christopher ’99 | July 1 1999 08:09am

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • Me and my e-mail (Apr. 1994)

    The University has just spent millions of dollars to renovate Yale Station. A horde of architects and designers has created a sort of “mail... Read on
    Gregory Raskin ’94, ’98MD | April 1 1994 11:21am

  • Carry me back to old New Haven (Mar. 1994)

    Yale, where obsessive-compulsiveness is a virtue, lack of sleep a badge of honor, and excess in all things the rule, is described by almost everyone... Read on
    Annie Murphy Paul ’95 | March 1 1994 11:13am

  • 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

  • Old Blues in black and white (Summer 1993)

    Over the past 25 years, relations among the races at Yale have come a long way. But as two black members of the Class of 1968 who returned for their... Read on
    Armstead L. Robinson ’68 & Donald H. Ogilvie '68, '78MPPM | July 1 1993 09:21am

  • 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