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  • In Memoriam

    On Memorial Day, we remember those Yale alumni who gave their lives in service to their country, from the American Revolution to Vietnam.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 25 2015 10:06am

  • Throwback Thursday: men in uniform

    Throwback Thursday: alumni will start rolling into town today for the first of two Yale class reunion weekends, and some of them will get perhaps a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 21 2015 08:41am

  • Throwback Thursday: When Commons was new

    This week, Yale announced a $150 million gift from Stephen Schwarzman ’69 to create the Schwarzman Center, a student center and performing arts... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 14 2015 09:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: inside Connecticut Hall

    Nathan Hale slept here, as did countless other Yale students from 1750 until 1953, when Connecticut Hall was renovated as office, study, and meeting... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 16 2015 08:15am

  • Throwback Thursday: the campus awakes

    Fifty years ago, in our April 1965 issue, we reported for the first time on student activism at Yale—a two-week-long protest over the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 9 2015 08:15am

  • Throwback Thursday: horse and buggy era

    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
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 26 2015 07:43am

  • Throwback Thursday: radio days

    That’s Thor Moser ’86 spinning platters in our March 1985 issue. Moser was general manager of WYBC radio at the time, in the days when the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 19 2015 08:54am

  • Throwback Thursday: hockey al fresco

    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
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 12 2015 09:02am

  • Throwback Thursday: a pioneer

    Our May 1969 issue featured an article about how “Black studies,” as it was then called, came to Yale, including portraits of African... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 19 2015 10:36am

  • Throwback Thursday: battle on ice

    Hockey in the days when helmets were optional: that’s Yale and Army on our March 1947 cover. The Bulldogs won that one 9–1.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 5 2015 10:51am

  • Throwback Thursday: bad times for barbers

    Our April 1971 issue included a photo feature called “The Lonely Barber,” in which Stu Rohrer ’74 reported on the hard times faced by... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 29 2015 09:56am

  • Throwback Thursday: students at play

    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
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 15 2015 11:28am

  • Throwback Thursday: the mid-’90s move-off

    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
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 6 2014 10:48am

  • Throwback Thursday: bad dog

    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
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 16 2014 11:20am

  • Throwback Thursday: in my room

    Our February 1958 issue featured a photo essay on student rooms, and the cover image was a strangely awkward one. A note on the cover inside the issue... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 9 2014 11:48am

  • Throwback Thursday: here come the cadets!

    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
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 25 2014 10:51am