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A hundred years ago this fall, Harkness Tower was inching skyward, as this December 1920 cover photo shows. Note the warning sign in English and... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 29 2020 07:51am
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Today’s mystery concerns this carving in Sterling Memorial Library’s International Room: what Yale tradition is depicted here? And... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 26 2020 08:45am |
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Missing Yale football this season? Here's a page from our archives featuring the team from 125 years ago. The 1895 squad finished 13–0–2... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 22 2020 08:27am
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All over campus this semester, Yale has put up tents to give students more places to safely congregate during the pandemic. But this photo from our... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 8 2020 08:06am
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It was 319 years ago today that the Colony of Connecticut granted ten ministers a charter to erect a school “wherein Youth may be instructed... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 9 2020 08:06am
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Fifty years ago, author and outgoing Pierson College master John Hersey ’36 published a book called Letter to the Alumni, a... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 1 2020 08:08am
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One hundred years ago today, we featured Wrexham Tower, part of Yale’s new Memorial Quadrangle, on our cover. The quadrangle, which now... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 24 2020 08:10am
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Fifty years ago this week, in 1970, students arriving on campus for the fall semester were greeted with a 64-page pamphlet called Sex and the Yale... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 17 2020 07:55am |
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Saturday is VJ Day, the 75th anniversary of the Japanese surrender that ended World War II. As the wartime version of the Yale Daily News... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 13 2020 07:53am
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Happy 241st birthday (tomorrow) to Benjamin Silliman, Sr., a noted chemist and Yale’s first science professor. His statue, sculpted by... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 7 2020 08:13am
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Few of us remember seeing Hillhouse Avenue lined with majestic elm trees; the last of them died in 1972 after decades of struggle with Dutch elm... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 31 2020 08:42am
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Twenty-five years ago this week, more than 3,000 athletes and coaches from 141 nations came to New Haven for the Special Olympics World Summer... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 9 2020 08:00am
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When you watch the film version of Hamilton tonight, keep an eye out for Samuel Seabury, Yale Class of 1748. He’s the guy in the Anglican... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 3 2020 08:00am
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One of the many things we miss right now is the steady stream of tourists following student guides around the campus, a ritual that looks much the... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 2 2020 07:50am
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Recent talk about Confederate monuments sent us to our archives, where we found this photo of Yale’s Civil War Memorial at the time of its... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 25 2020 07:51am
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Fifty years ago this week, Yale celebrated its 269th commencement, just weeks after the campus and New Haven were gripped by the May Day protests.... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 11 2020 09:31am
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This weekend, the Yale Class of 2015 was supposed to have its first reunion. This page from our June 1980 issue features the Class of 1915 at its... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 28 2020 08:00am
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In 1957, a magazine editor might still put a cancer researcher smoking a cigarette on the cover and not see the irony. But a sharp-eyed... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 4 2020 07:40am
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A hundred years ago this week, we were celebrating Yale’s win in the first annual Intercollegiate Flying Meet in Mineola, New York.... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 21 2020 07:54am
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Today is the 268th anniversary of the birth of theologian, educator, and poet Timothy Dwight, who was president of Yale from 1795 to 1817. Timothy... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 14 2020 08:10am
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