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  • Mystery Monday: initial thoughts

    This one will test your memory of Yale abbreviations: what are the two buildings to which this sign is offering directions? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 3 2024 06:57am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Mystery Monday: who gives a hoot?

    We've noted before the substantial owl population carved into Yale's architecture. Does anyone know where we spotted this one? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 6 2024 06:47am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Mystery Monday: a good read

    Reading period starts this Friday, but this bespectacled scholar is getting a head start. Do you know where on campus we found him? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 22 2024 04:08am

  • Mystery Monday: for fans of the oriels

    Among the buildings that make up today's Yale are dozens that began their lives as private homes—including the 200-year-old dwelling... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 3 2024 10:00pm

  • Mystery Monday: a date carved in stone

    We'd like to say that this stone carving is a tribute to our magazine's founding in 1891, but that would be fake news. Where on campus is this... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 26 2024 05:53am

  • Mystery Monday: tools of the trade

    There is a wealth of outdoor sculpture on Yale’s campus. Where can you find this piece that features bronze casts of common hand tools? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 12 2024 08:41am

  • Mystery Monday: where eagles dare

    Eagles are usually solitary creatures, but this is one of a trio carved on the side of a Yale building. Where is it? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 5 2024 12:44am

  • Mystery Monday: well wrought

    There’s enough beautiful wrought iron on the Yale campus to fill a coffee table book—if there isn't one already, someone should get on... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 29 2024 05:28am

  • Mystery Monday: it's not about tic-tac-toe

    If you're looking up as you walk between Benjamin Franklin and Pauli Murray colleges, you might spot this carving in a gable. What do the diagram... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 22 2024 05:36am

  • Mystery Monday: where art thou?

    There are several small balconies on campus where one could play Juliet—or perhaps Eva Peron. But in this case you'd have to be able to... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 17 2023 11:54pm

  • Mystery Monday: insert knock knock joke here

    You know you've seen these doors somewhere on campus. But where? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 11 2023 03:01am

  • Mystery Monday: what's cooking?

    One set of stone carvings on Pauli Murray College, devoted to "New Haven foodways," includes tributes to Wooster Square pizza and the Yankee Doodle... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 4 2023 02:56am

  • Mystery Monday: embedded

    Here's an easy Mystery Monday to get you back in the swing of things after a long weekend. Where on campus did we photograph this Costantino Nivola... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 27 2023 03:15am

  • Mystery Monday: key stone

    Those knobby things you see often at the top of Gothic vaults are called bosses. This boss evidently carries the keys. Where did we find it? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 16 2023 05:27am

  • Mystery Monday: Yale's champion

    Cotton Mather was a Harvard man, but only because there was no Yale when he started college. Mather was one of Yale's early champions; he urged... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 9 2023 04:59am

  • Mystery Monday: what's going on here?

    The International Room in Sterling Memorial Library was once the Yale Memorabilia Room, and its shelves are decorated with scenes of extracurricular... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 2 2023 07:30am

  • Mystery Monday: quotable quote

    Two questions for you today: what is the source of this quotation, and on what campus building did we find it? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 25 2023 08:40am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Mystery Monday: lighter than air

    Stained glass artist G. Owen Bonawit produced hundreds of window panels for Yale buildings in the interwar years. Where did we spot this image of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 28 2023 08:00am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Mystery Monday: AKA MMVII

    This stone carving blends well with Yale's timeless gothic architecture, but it indicates a building younger than the current student body. Where is... Read on
    Mark Branch ’86 | August 14 2023 08:27am