We reported last week that chief investment officer David Swensen ’80PhD is getting a tower named after him in recognition of his stewardship of... Read on
This ad for a New Haven carriage maker appeared regularly in the Yale Alumni Weekly (our name until 1937) in the early spring of 1905. Fortunately... Read on
From our March 5, 1915, issue: students play hockey on Lake Whitney in Hamden. A hundred years later, they’re still at it, but this weekend’s... Read on
Students in the 1930s apparently kicked back in their rooms in coats and ties (although we suspect this scene might have been staged to some... Read on
Seventy-five years ago in basketball, the shorts were shorter and the nets were longer. That’s T. F. Erickson ’40 (shooting) and A. B. Stevens... Read on
On our March 1960 cover: “Children of faculty members enjoy regularly scheduled skating at the new Ingalls Rink.” The photo was taken by the... Read on
Our February 1994 cover featured the return to Yale of Linda Koch Lorimer ’77JD as secretary of the university. Twenty years later, Lorimer is... Read on
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It's the wrong season and the wrong sport, but something about this photo just seems so right. On our June 1959 cover, Edward Slowik ’60 finishes... Read on
Throwback Thursday: 20 years ago, writer David Leonhardt ’94 gave us the upshot on the new undergraduate trend toward living off campus. (That's... Read on
Ten years ago, in our September/October 2004 issue, we profiled School of Nursing professor and midwifery pioneer Helen Varney Burst ’63MSN, which... Read on
Handsome Dan VII posed with the first Dan for our October 1949 cover. We described him as “a frisky, seven months old, solid white, blue-blooded... Read on
Our December 1969 cover featured an unidentified Old Blue outside the Bowl after The Game. Though you wouldn't know it from his sober countenance, the... Read on
On Saturday, a thousand or so West Point cadets will march to the Yale Bowl for the Bulldogs’ first game against Army since 1996. The scene may... Read on
More than a few Yale students will go apple-picking this month at nearby Connecticut orchards, but it’s usually just for fun. In 1942, when these... Read on