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  • Mystery Monday: secret code

    Bricks stamped like this one are sprinkled throughout the façade of the Humanities Quadangle, which was built in 1932 as the Hall of Graduate... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 5 2022 01:22pm | Ico comments 3 comments

  • Open-gate policy

    When the Hall of Graduate Studies was renovated to become the Humanities Quadrangle, the arcade at the entrance was enclosed to become a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 5 2022 09:25am

  • Tower struggle

    Graduate students used to live in the tower of the Hall of Graduate Studies. Now that the building has been renovated to be the Humanities... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 2 2021 08:00am

  • All together now

    Remember when lots of people used to gather in one place to hear a professor talk? When Yale starts doing that again this fall, there will be a new... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 21 2021 11:38am

  • Places to see

    We’re looking forward to a fall semester somewhat closer to normal, so people can enjoy some new and refurbished campus spaces like this one:... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 16 2021 08:00am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • View from the top

    The courtyard of the Humanities Quadrangle—formerly the Hall of Graduate Studies—is placidly green now, but not too long ago it was a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 13 2021 08:03am

  • Moving in

    We spotted moving vans and boxes outside the newly renovated Humanities Quadrangle—formerly the Hall of Graduate Studies. But while the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 14 2021 08:30am

  • Oh! The humanities!

    The construction fence is down on York Street, and faculty are beginning to move in to the Humanities Quadrangle, formerly the Hall of Graduate... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 10 2020 08:37am

  • Unwrapped

    After several months of renovations, the tower of the former Hall of Graduate Studies has emerged from behind scaffolding. The tower was named... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 24 2020 08:52am

  • Wrapping it up

    As renovations of the Hall of Graduate Studies go into full swing, scaffolding is going up around its tower (known since 2015 as Swensen Tower in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 22 2019 10:10am

  • HGS hiatus

    Another blue construction fence has popped up on the central campus, this time at the Hall of Graduate Studies, which is closed for a major... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 25 2018 08:42am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • 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
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 18 2018 09:13am

  • All ears

    A favorite architectural detail from the Hall of Graduate Studies: stonecarvers incorporated likenesses of some of some of the administrators and... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 23 2016 11:05am

  • High noon at HGS

    Another good day to be outside today, especially in the cloistered calm of the Hall of Graduate Studies courtyard. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 28 2015 01:22pm