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March 2015

  • Live by the sword

    The famed paleontologist O. C. Marsh didn’t just collect dinosaur bones: Marsh acquired this remarkable samurai helmet and face guard in 1889 and... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 30 2015 08:04am

  • Blooms day

    Ever since the snow started melting, we’ve been scanning the ground all over campus waiting for this cheerful sign of spring. Hooray!... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 27 2015 10:24am

  • Throwback Thursday: horse and buggy era

    This ad for a New Haven carriage maker appeared regularly in the Yale Alumni Weekly (our name until 1937) in the early spring of 1905. Fortunately... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 26 2015 07:43am

  • Up on the roof

    The weather is getting nice enough to merit a visit to the Yale University Art Gallery’s sculpture terrace, one of the most felicitous results of... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 25 2015 08:50am

  • Jewel box

    You’ve got less than two months to enjoy the architectural drama of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library before it closes on May 18 for a... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 24 2015 08:48am

  • Cold comfort

    Students are back from break, and the snow has almost disappeared from Cross Campus. Maybe it is spring after all. Except for the fact that... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 23 2015 10:43am

  • Dismantling the WASP establishment

    The York Street building that housed the preppy clothier J. Press from 1902 to 2013 is rapidly disappearing (though the store itself lives on at 260... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 20 2015 08:33am

  • Throwback Thursday: radio days

    That’s Thor Moser ’86 spinning platters in our March 1985 issue. Moser was general manager of WYBC radio at the time, in the days when the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 19 2015 08:54am

  • Payne Whitney Beach

    Not of all of us could get away to a tropical beach for spring break, but we can still go for a swim in 80-degree water at Payne Whitney Gymnasium.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 18 2015 08:20am

  • No blarney

    Happy St. Patrick’s Day! These shamrocks and harp, carved in stone at the Elm Street entrance to Berkeley College, are a tribute to Bishop... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 17 2015 08:18am

  • The great thaw

    Good morning, Science Hill! It's so good to see the grass again. We had kind of forgotten what it looked like.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 16 2015 10:17am

  • The art of the field trip

    Yale’s students may be on spring break, but the learning continues for these schoolchildren at the Yale University Art Gallery.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 13 2015 08:58am

  • Throwback Thursday: hockey al fresco

    From our March 5, 1915, issue: students play hockey on Lake Whitney in Hamden. A hundred years later, they’re still at it, but this weekend’s... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 12 2015 09:02am

  • The sound of silence

    Not everyone has left town for spring break; a few people are still haunting the Starr Reading Room and other parts of Sterling Memorial Library. But... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 11 2015 11:18am

  • Blue skies

    There’s always something beautiful to see where Yale meets the sky—especially a warming blue sky after a long winter.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 10 2015 08:30am

  • Limited seating

    This Old Campus bench—like much of the campus—is still buried in snow today, but most students are off on spring break anyway. With... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 9 2015 08:52am

  • The best defense

    We don’t want to alarm anyone, but Skull and Bones appears to have built a moat. Reports that it is stocked with alligators have not been confirmed.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 6 2015 09:27am

  • Throwback Thursday: president’s day

    Sixty-five years ago, in our March 1950 issue, we introduced A. Whitney Griswold ’29, ’33PhD, as the new president of the university. Griswold... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 5 2015 08:50am

  • Stone-throwing is strictly prohibited

    If a Bass Library “weenie bin” is too claustrophobic for you, you could try studying at the School of Management’s new library, where... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 4 2015 08:57am