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  • Throwback Thursday: long-running

    We featured James Bundy ’95MFA on our March 2002 cover, when he was just starting out as dean of what is now the David Geffen School of Drama.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 10 2022 08:17am

  • Throwback thursday: a little club soda will get that right out

    From our February 5, 1902, issue: when Commons was still a white-tablecloth joint. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 24 2022 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: boards of education

    Forty-five years ago, our February 1977 issue included a photo essay on campus bulletin boards. Who remembers the ride board in Yale Station? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 17 2022 07:57am

  • Throwback Thursday: Yale on china

    In October 1932, our forerunner the Yale Alumni Weekly published this ad for Wedgwood plates featuring Yale scenes—$18 a dozen. You can... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 3 2022 08:30am

  • Throwback Thursday: defensive mode

    We’re keenly aware of the adjustments and disruptions to Yale life that the pandemic has caused, but imagine living on a campus that was... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 27 2022 08:08am

  • Throwback Thursday: seventies style?

    What did student style look like 50 years ago? Don’t take our February 1972 “what-to-wear-where guide for the college student” too... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 13 2022 08:08am

  • Throwback Thursday: riveted

    What captured the attention of these Yale men on our cover nearly 60 years ago? A note inside the issue explains that it was a talk by Senator Barry... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 6 2022 09:24am

  • Throwback Thursday: holiday dinner

    This weekend, the traditional first-year holiday dinner returns to Commons after several years at 150 York Street. There will actually be two... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 2 2021 08:00am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Throwback Thursday: old-school football

    As Team 148 prepares to play Harvard at the Bowl on Saturday, here’s a look at Team 23 from 1896. The team finished with a 13–1 record... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 18 2021 08:00am

  • The first from China

    Yung Wing, Class of 1854, was born on this date in 1828. Yung was the first Chinese student to graduate from an American university. His statue... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 17 2021 08:01am

  • Throwback Thursday: war is over

    Our November 15, 1918, cover featured men from the Yale Students’ Army Training Corps parading on November 11 on the Green, where “a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 11 2021 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: Cozza’s last stand

    Twenty-five years ago, we marked the retirement of Carm Cozza, head coach of the Yale football team from 1965 through 1996, with a cover story.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 21 2021 08:05am

  • Throwback Thursday: celebrating 300

    Twenty years ago this month, Yale completed the celebration of its 300th anniversary with a show at the Yale Bowl featuring a peculiar roster of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 14 2021 09:37am

  • Throwback Thursday: big entrance

    It’s hard to imagine Yale without Phelps Gate, but Elis had to make a less grand arrival until Phelps Hall and its posh portal were built.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 7 2021 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: sweet memories

    A new grab-and-go food spot in the Schwarzman Center has replaced Durfee’s, the campus convenience store in Durfee Hall. But some of us... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 30 2021 08:27am

  • Throwback Thursday: precious stones

    One hundred years ago in October, ox carts brought three millstones to campus to adorn the brand new Harkness Memorial Quadrangle. They came from... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 23 2021 08:09am

  • A spy meets his end

    On this day in 1776, Nathan Hale, Class of 1773, was executed by the British for espionage in New York. Tradition holds that his last words were... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 22 2021 07:56am

  • Eighty years of women in architecture

    On display in Paul Rudolph Hall through December 10, “Rooms: Yale School of Architecture Graduate Women Alums, 1942–” features... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 21 2021 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: road scholars

    Sixty years ago, when the nation was in a frenzy of interstate highway construction, we ran a photo essay on a little-known Yale program called the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 16 2021 08:03am