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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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  • When the World Barged In (Mar. 1997)

    The important events of the outside world, inside Yale.  When the World Barged InMarch 1997by Peter Beinart ’93 Part of a series... Read on
    Peter Beinart ’93 | March 1 1997 03:22pm

  • 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

  • On the town in the Elm City (Mar. 1999)

    Contrary to popular stereotypes, Yalies do like to have fun. And even though many have probably opened and closed Sterling Memorial Library more often... Read on
    Sandy Christopher ’99 | March 1 1999 06:39am

  • 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

  • After-hours education (Feb. 1994)

    Receiving a phone call from the dean of Yale College is not a good way to wake up. I had been asleep only a few hours and did not want anybody to be calling... Read on
    David Leonhardt ’94 | February 1 1994 10:53am

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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