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  • Throwback Thursday: Bulldog days

    Seventy-five years ago, in our March 1950 issue, we ran this photo of Levi Jackson ’50 at an event in New Haven. Jackson was Yale's first... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 12 2025 05:44am

  • Throwback Thursday: desktop publishing

    In our February 1975 issue, we featured birds-eye views of the desks of Yale faculty and staff, photographed by Mark Ellis. This modest secretary in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 12 2025 05:00pm

  • Throwback Thursday: Black at Yale in 1915

    In our January 1970 issue, we published some memories of Yale by William Ashby (fourth from right in the second row in this 1915 photo of Yale's... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 5 2025 10:00pm

  • Throwback Thursday: out for blood

    By February 1942, when this photo appeared in our magazine, Yale had been transformed by America's entry into World War II. The image shows students... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 23 2025 04:22am

  • Throwback Thursday: what might have been

    125 years ago this month, in our January 31, 1900, edition, we revealed plans for Yale's Bicentennial buildings—Commons, Woolsey Hall... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 15 2025 10:00pm

  • Throwback Thursday: before Sterling

    From an April 1925 issue of the Yale Alumni Weekly, a glimpse of some of the buildings that were demolished to make room for Sterling Memorial... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 8 2025 11:50pm

  • Throwback Thursday: goodbye to Old Sheff

    In 1931, we published this image of the demolition of Sheffield Hall, the 117-year-old building that had housed the School of Medicine before... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 19 2024 07:19am

  • Throwback Thursday: what did Yalies do all day?

    In April 1938, we featured some of the many jobs students did as part of their financial aid package, from tutoring to the Student Pipe Agency.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 11 2024 10:57pm

  • Throwback Thursday: when reading period was new

    Tomorrow is the last day of classes in Yale College for the fall semester, and the beginning of a six-day reading period before finals. Eighty-six... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 5 2024 02:54am

  • Throwback Thursday: a Game for the ages

    Preparing for The Game on Saturday, we were reminded that yesterday was the 25th anniversary of one of the greatest Yale-Harvard football games of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 20 2024 10:00pm | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Throwback Thursday: tough guys

    In November 1894, the Yale and Harvard football teams met in Springfield, Massachusetts, for their 17th contest, which would come to be known as the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 13 2024 10:00pm

  • Offerings

    The pioneering scientist and Yale professor Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903) may not be a household name, but he has had a long list of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 30 2024 12:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: Hush Hall

    One hundred years ago this week, students woke up to find workers preparing the foundations for a new residence hall on Old Campus that had never been... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 17 2024 12:00am

  • Mystery Monday: where was Sloane?

    Before Sloane Physics Lab on Science Hill, there was another building by that name on campus. Where is this carving that commemorates its former... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 14 2024 06:19am | Ico comments 3 comments

  • Throwback Thursday: winds of change

    Our October 1964 issue reported a political shift among Yale students: a "significant majority" of the incoming Class of 1968 considered themselves... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 9 2024 08:39pm

  • Throwback Thursday: solo scholar

    Our February 1980 cover featured Rueben Aguilera ’80, one of 12 seniors enrolled in Yale's Scholars of the House program that year. From 1946... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 26 2024 09:09am

  • Throwback Thursday: old-school football

    Yale's 151st varsity football team—or Team 151, as they style themselves—has its season opener on Saturday at Holy Cross. We just ran across this... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 19 2024 12:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: belated recognition

    Our October 1984 cover featured President A. Bartlett Giamatti ’60, ’64PhD, greeting new students after the Graduate and Professional... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 12 2024 12:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: reforesting Old Campus

    Fifty years ago this fall, as we reported in our October 1974 issue, students arrived to find 33 new pin oak trees had been planted on Old Campus.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 5 2024 12:00am