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It’s Flag Day in the United States—a good time to take a look at this historic flag, which hung in Woolsey Hall during the Glenn Miller... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 14 2018 09:19am
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Nearly 50 years before Yale launched a plan to transform Commons into a student center, architecture student Peter Hoyt ’70MArch had the same... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 12 2018 10:22am
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What’s this stone carving on the side of Benjamin Franklin College all about? The fact that it faces the Farmington Canal Greenway is a clue:... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 5 2018 09:02am
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Fifty years ago, in our March 1968 issue, we profiled swimmer Don Schollander ’68 on the eve of his second trip to the Olympic Games, where he... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 1 2018 06:50am
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Students, alumni, and New Haven residents gathered in the JE Art Gallery Thursday for a talk on the 1970 May Day protests. Sam Chauncey ’57... Read on
Jack Taperell ’18 | February 23 2018 02:45pm
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It’s easy to miss this stone carving hidden behind a tree on the Elm Street façade of Berkeley College. Rendered (inexplicably) in... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 9 2018 08:56am
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From our January 1943 issue, 75 years ago. Students at Yale during World War II graduated on an accelerated schedule, which meant the Class of 1943... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 25 2018 02:07pm
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Our January/February 2018 issue includes a photo essay on Payne Whitney Gymnasium. Coincidentally, so did our January 1968 issue exactly 50 years... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 18 2018 10:28am
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Forty years ago today, Yale announced that A. Bartlett Giamatti ’60, ’64PhD, would be the university’s 19th president. He took... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 20 2017 09:02am
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Vincent Scully ’40, ’49PhD, Sterling Professor of the History of Art, died at his home in Lynchburg, Virginia, last night. He was 97... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 1 2017 10:26am
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It is likely that there are players on this year’s football team who were not yet walking—much less tackling—when Yale last beat... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 16 2017 08:25am
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Seventy-five years ago this month, Yale had the war on its mind, but not to the complete exclusion of football. (That’s Handsome Dan V, by the... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 2 2017 01:46pm
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Happy 259th birthday to Yale’s own Noah Webster, lexicographer, founder of New York’s first daily newspaper, and champion of an American... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 16 2017 10:11am |
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Lots of anniversaries to note: one hundred years ago yesterday, Yale laid the cornerstone (pictured) for the Memorial Quadrangle, the residence... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 9 2017 08:26am
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It’s supposed to top 90 degrees for the third straight day today, so we’ve been looking for things to do indoors around here. The... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 21 2017 08:55am
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You’ve heard a lot from us recently about Handsome Dans, past and present, but they’re not the only historic canines linked to Yale. Next... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 20 2017 11:07am
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Midshipman Forrest Simpson ’19 and Cadet Alex Tymchenko ’17 prepare to present a memorial wreath at a ceremony yesterday commemorating... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 7 2017 10:14am
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A plaque honoring pioneering physicist Edward Bouchet, Class of 1874, 1876PhD, has been installed on the side of Vanderbilt Hall. Placed by the... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 6 2017 10:05am
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With Washington’s Birthday transferred to the nearest Monday, February 22 now passes without a lot of notice. But for 60 years at Yale, the... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 22 2017 12:07pm
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Above the entrance to the Kiphuth Trophy Room in Payne Whitney Gymnasium is a portrait of the room’s namesake—legendary swimming coach... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 12 2017 08:49am
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