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  • Brown-bagging

    Commons is now open for lunch again, but before the official opening on Wednesday the dining hall offered grab-and-go meals for students on Tuesday... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 3 2021 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: postwar procession

    Who remembers Hewitt Quadrangle before the Beinecke Library was built? This image from our July 1946 cover shows the first peacetime commencement... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 20 2021 08:09am

  • What everyone is wearing this spring

    Graduating students have begun to acquire their caps and gowns for commencement this weekend. We spotted Danielle Harris ’21 posing for her... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 19 2021 07:46am

  • Throwback Thursday: building a movement

    Thirty-five years ago this spring, student activists built a shanty town on Beinecke Plaza as a protest against Yale’s investments in South... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 6 2021 09:39am

  • Way down

    Hewitt Quadrangle looks much the same as it did before the massive renovation and  construction project that created the Schwarzman Center. One... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 5 2021 09:01am

  • Oh say, can you see?

    The flag is flying once again on the Ledyard Flagstaff on Hewitt Quadrangle. Still awaiting the return of the Calder sculpture to make the quad... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 3 2021 08:00am

  • Back at its post

    Two and a half years after it was removed for the Schwarzman Center construction project, the cenotaph at the center of Yale’s World War I... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 5 2021 08:20am

  • Say no to the snow

    Did you ever notice that there’s rarely any accumulation of snow on Beinecke Plaza? Here’s why: a hot-water circulation system below the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 4 2020 07:56am

  • A firm foundation

    As construction crews work on a new subterranean addition to Commons—part of the new Schwarzman Center—we get a rare look at the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 26 2019 08:47am

  • On the move

    Art handlers were on Beinecke Plaza this morning disassembling Alexander Calder’s sculpture Gallows and Lollipops. Amy Doyel of the Yale... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 6 2018 10:42am

  • It begins

    Parts of Hewitt Quadrangle—aka Beinecke Plaza—are being cordoned off for construction of the Schwarzman Center, the transformation of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 2 2018 08:59am

  • Casualties

    The flag on Hewitt Quadrangle was at half-staff yesterday evening in recognition of the school-shooting victims in Parkland, Florida. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 16 2018 09:03am

  • Silver lining

    It’s all shades of gray on Hewitt Quadrangle this morning. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 5 2017 10:22am

  • A September morning

    Yale marked the 16th anniversary of the September 11 attacks this morning with a ceremony on Hewitt Quadrangle. Students read the names of the nine... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 11 2017 09:16am

  • Fresh Friday

    Every Friday in the summer, Yale Hospitality (née Yale Dining) offers Uncommon Market, a produce market outside Commons that also sells goods... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 23 2017 01:45pm

  • Head and shoulders

    Just the topmost portions of students headed to class are visible over the wall outside the Beinecke Library. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 17 2017 08:35am

  • Show of support

    While many in the Yale community went to Washington, New York City, and Hartford for women’s marches on Saturday, about 500 turned up on... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 23 2017 08:35am

  • Twilight’s last gleaming

    Hewitt Quadrangle at 5 o’clock yesterday, just after sunset. The days are, slowly but surely, getting longer. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 5 2017 08:47am

  • Cleaning Calder

    Alexander Calder’s Gallows and Lollipops is getting some attention from conservators this week. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 15 2016 08:42am