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October 2015

  • Squash court

    Happy Halloween from the Branford College courtyard! A new treat at Yale this Halloween: the Yale Symphony Orchestra’s celebrated Halloween... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 30 2015 10:23am

  • A walk in the woods

    It was a gray day yesterday, brightened by the trees on Rose Walk and High Street. Do you remember when cars could still drive past the front door... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 29 2015 08:37am

  • En garde

    Spotted in the fencing salon on the seventh floor of Payne Whitney Gymnasium: apparently there’s more than one way to keep those reflexes... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 28 2015 08:41am

  • Inside the wall

    The beautiful fall days keep coming. Yesterday we visited Grove Street Cemetery and got this view of Memorial Hall and Sterling Tower. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 27 2015 08:43am

  • The art of autumn

    We’re reporting today from the Art Gallery on High Street as part of our continuous coverage of this breaking story: it’s fall. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 26 2015 08:57am

  • Gimme a break

    Undergrads are in the midst of their five-day fall break, so those of us left behind get all this foliage to ourselves. Classes resume Monday. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 23 2015 11:54am

  • That’s a wrap

    Premiering on Broadway yesterday (that’s New Haven’s Broadway): Junzi Kitchen, a quick-service restaurant featuring... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 22 2015 09:00am

  • Calder + nature

    Alexander Calder’s sculpture Gallows and Lollipops on Hewitt Quadrangle is temporarily upstaged by the fall foliage. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 21 2015 08:43am

  • Room at the top

    High above the Old Campus, on the eighth floor of Bingham Hall, this beautiful room offers great views and sun-drenched study space. It’s the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 20 2015 08:55am

  • Overlook

    Saturday was a perfect day to trek to the top of East Rock and look over the campus, the city, the Sound, and even Long Island. Did you ever make... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 19 2015 08:37am

  • Ghost mansion

    At the head of Hillhouse Avenue was once a mansion called Sachem’s Wood, not far from where Kline Biology Tower stands now. (See second... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 16 2015 11:19am

  • Silver and gold

    An autumnal locust tree provides a natural contrast to the concrete, stainless steel, and glass of the Center for British Art. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 15 2015 08:53am

  • Podcasting in person

    Tablet magazine brought its weekly podcast Unorthodox to a live audience at the Slifka Center for Jewish Life yesterday. Host Mark... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 14 2015 08:35am

  • Autumn is on

    A fiery maple snapped yesterday morning outside Watson Hall on Sachem Street. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 13 2015 08:59am

  • Ivy interloper?

    Spotted outside the President’s House on Hillhouse Avenue the other day: a black squirrel. We thought they were a Princeton thing. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 12 2015 09:00am | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/2232-ivy-interloper?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 1 comment</a></span>

  • Inside the tower

    Tours of Harkness Tower and its carillon were part of Wednesday’s Founders Day festivities. Tell us your stories of climbing... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 9 2015 08:52am

  • Pumpkin spice Yale

    Yesterday was Founders Day, the second annual campuswide celebration of the granting of Yale’s charter 314 years ago this month. Yalies... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 8 2015 08:38am

  • The art of reading

    A bird’s-eye view of the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, housed in Paul Rudolph Hall (that’s the A+A Building to us old-timers) and... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 7 2015 08:36am

  • Closer to heaven

    On a beautiful fall morning, the sun warms the Sterling Divinity Quadrangle at the top of Prospect Hill. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 6 2015 09:50am