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July 2018

  • Making noise in the library

    Students and instructors from the Morse Summer Music Academy performed pop-up concerts at four locations around the city today, including this one... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | July 20 2018 03:17pm

  • Five places in New Haven: Wooster Square

    Five places in New Haven, day five: Wooster Square, just east of downtown, is famous locally for its cherry blossoms in the spring, but Yalies and... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | July 27 2018 01:43pm

  • Five places in New Haven: Lighthouse Point

    Five places in New Haven, day four: it’s surprisingly easy to go to Yale and forget how close we are to the water, but somewhat intrepid... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | July 26 2018 10:32am

  • Five places in New Haven: Hillhouse Avenue

    Five places in New Haven, day three: Hillhouse Avenue was once New Haven’s most fashionable residential street, a pioneering example of the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | July 25 2018 10:05am

  • Five places in New Haven: East Rock

    Five places in New Haven, day two: towering over the Mill River, the traprock cliffs of East Rock afford a remarkable view of New Haven, the harbor... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | July 24 2018 11:16am

  • Five places in New Haven: the Green

    Three hundred years ago this September, Yale held its first commencement in New Haven, as its new home at College and Chapel Streets was dedicated.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | July 23 2018 09:46pm

  • Throwback Thursday: uniforms

    Seventy-five years ago, the campus and our pages were filled with men in uniform. On our August 1943 cover, a civilian freshman offers a light to an... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | July 19 2018 09:03am

  • Before the big dig

    The humidity has broken, and it’s a nice morning to sit in the Hall of Graduate Studies courtyard while there’s still time: HGS will... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | July 18 2018 09:13am

  • It’s only natural

    Now in bloom outside the Peabody Museum: purple coneflowers—or echinacea purpurea, as they might call them at the Peabody. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | July 17 2018 10:11am

  • Stage door

    Since 1966, Yale Repertory Theatre has introduced hundreds of important plays, many of which have gone on to Broadway. What Yale Rep productions... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | July 16 2018 09:01am

  • Making progress

    Here’s a progress shot of Yale’s new science building, slated for completion in the fall of 2019. In the foreground, the Science Hill... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | July 13 2018 10:30am

  • Occupy Chapel Street

    A group called GoNewHavenGo took over two parking spaces on Chapel Street yesterday to promote car-free living in New Haven. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | July 12 2018 09:37am

  • Between the lions

    High school students gather in the courtyard of Lanman-Wright Hall for another day of Explo at Yale, an independent academic program that takes over... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | July 11 2018 08:57am

  • In the shadows

    With temperatures headed for the 90s today, people are finding shade wherever they can. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | July 10 2018 11:15am

  • Where the boys were

    One of Yale’s most peaceful paths has a raucous past: the brick buildings of Fraternity Row were built in the 1920s and ’30s for seven... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | July 9 2018 02:36pm

  • We do declare

    On display through next Wednesday at the Beinecke Library: one of 26 known copies of the Dunlap Broadside, the first printing of the Declaration of... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | July 6 2018 10:16am

  • Go nuts

    This is surely Yale’s squirrelliest entrance. Who can guess what building it adorns? Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | July 5 2018 10:19am