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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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On December 1, 1941, Ensign Edward S. Gosselin ’40S wrote home to his parents from the USS Arizona. “Mother & Dad, there is a... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 7 2016 08:07am
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On this date in 1716, the Yale Corporation voted to move the college—then known as the Collegiate School—from Saybrook to New Haven. The... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 17 2016 08:31am
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On a traffic signal box on Chapel Street, a photo mural reflects what once was across the street: Osborn Hall, the Yale classroom building that was... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 21 2016 08:44am
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As more and more academic resources go digital, Sterling Memorial Library still has a reminder of how it all started. This Albion hand press, built... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 6 2016 04:57am
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Happy Independence Day! In New Haven, it’s a day to honor Roger Sherman, the former mayor, senator, and Yale treasurer who signed all four of... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 4 2016 04:06am
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Throwback Thursday: fifty years ago this summer, workers spent three months installing 44 new bells in Harkness Tower to upgrade the existing chimes... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 9 2016 11:09am
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You’ll find Yale’s first microscope, a gorilla skeleton, dinosaur bones, and plenty of other wonderful artifacts in the Peabody... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 6 2016 08:50am
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Fifty years ago in our May 1966 issue,in an otherwise largely celebratory issue about urban renewal in New Haven, we featured Peter Countryman... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 3 2016 11:17am
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Before it was retrofitted into Branford and Saybrook College, Yale’s Memorial Quadrangle (1917) was the prototype for a new campus... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 19 2016 08:17am
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Forty years ago, in our February 1976 issue, John Tierney ’76 enlightened our readers on the rise of ultimate frisbee at Yale, reporting on... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 4 2016 08:36am
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In our January 17, 1936, issue, we reported on legendary swimming coach Bob Kiphuth’s latest innovation. Over his 42 years as coach, Yale amassed... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 28 2016 08:53am
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And you thought Garry Trudeau made all this up? Forty-five years ago, our January 1971 issue described for alumni the inner workings of a handful of... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 21 2016 08:54am
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Today would be the first day back to classes for students, but since it’s Martin Luther King’s birthday, classes will wait till... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 18 2016 11:13am
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