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August 2024

  • Bless me, Father, for I have misdialed

    Who remembers the telephone booths in the nave of Sterling Memorial Library? In keeping with the library's ecclesiastically inspired architecture... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 30 2024 12:00am | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/4443-bless-me-father-for-i-have-misdialed?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 1 comment</a></span>

  • Lunch break

    The lunch rush at Commons yesterday, the first day of classes. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 29 2024 03:12am

  • Refueling

    Today is the first day of classes in Yale College. By mid-afternoon, coffee was in great demand. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 28 2024 11:05am

  • Welcome, Class of 2028

    They’re back! We were glad to see first-years milling around with their families after this morning's Yale College Opening Assembly on Cross... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 19 2024 08:28am

  • Throwback Thursday: making a splash

    Our November 21, 1941, cover featured a photo from a Yale Dramat production of Aristophanes’s Frogs, staged by drama student Burt Shevelove in the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 14 2024 09:23pm

  • College pride

    Silliman College was looking especially beautiful yesterday. Any Sillimanders out there? Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 14 2024 04:46am

  • Quiet anticipation

    The Old Campus is serenely quiet this week, but on Sunday, it will be bustling as first-years arrive for Camp Yale. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 13 2024 05:06am

  • Mystery Monday: letter perfect

    You'll find the letter Y worked into the campus architecture in many different ways. Where did we find this monogrammed brickwork? Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 12 2024 12:00am

  • A series of tubes

    A nice surprise in the renovated L&B Reading Room in Sterling Library: a decommissioned pneumatic tube station that had been in the room years... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 8 2024 08:49am

  • Throwback Thursday: Ford's foundation

    Fifty years ago tonight, Richard Nixon announced that he would resign as president of the United States. At noon the next day, Gerald R. Ford... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 7 2024 08:00pm

  • Silver lining

    It's cool and misty today—a nice respite from the heat! Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 7 2024 10:40am

  • Safety first

    As part of a reshuffling on Science Hill to prepare the site for a mammoth new Physical Sciences and Engineering Building, a new chemical safety... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 6 2024 06:49am

  • Mystery Monday: reach for the sky

    Yale is a campus of towers, big and small. Where did we spot this octagonal one? Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 5 2024 11:46am

  • The word from on High

    High Street between Chapel and Elm has been closed this week for some preliminary work on the upcoming conversion of the street to a pedestrian and... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 2 2024 06:12am