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  • Remembrance

    Tomorrow is the 150th anniversary of Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appamattox, which ended the American Civil War. Yale’s memorial to its... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 8 2015 08:30am

  • A call to arms

    Posters went up around the campus yesterday promoting the effort to name Yale’s new residential colleges “after facets of the Yale community... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 7 2015 10:20am

  • Way down

    The restored nave of Sterling Memorial Library, glimpsed from the stairway that leads to the subterranean Bass Library. This stair was built in 2007 as... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 6 2015 08:30am

  • Faith and fire

    To prepare for Passover, Jewish law requires that homes be rid of chametz—foods made from leavened grains. At the Slifka Center for Jewish Life... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 3 2015 10:32am

  • Throwback Thursday: portrait of the CIO as a young man

    We reported last week that chief investment officer David Swensen ’80PhD is getting a tower named after him in recognition of his stewardship of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 2 2015 08:26am

  • R. U. amused?

    Happy April Fools’ Day from Sterling Memorial Library! Clearly architect James Gamble Rogers and sculptor Rene Chambellan wanted to make sure... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 1 2015 01:00am

  • A Yalie hangout that’s still going strong

    Sometimes it feels like we’re always telling you about the disappearance of old Yale haunts (the Yankee Doodle, the Anchor, Cutler’s). Many... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 31 2015 08:43am

  • Live by the sword

    The famed paleontologist O. C. Marsh didn’t just collect dinosaur bones: Marsh acquired this remarkable samurai helmet and face guard in 1889 and... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 30 2015 08:04am

  • Blooms day

    Ever since the snow started melting, we’ve been scanning the ground all over campus waiting for this cheerful sign of spring. Hooray!... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 27 2015 10:24am

  • 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

  • Up on the roof

    The weather is getting nice enough to merit a visit to the Yale University Art Gallery’s sculpture terrace, one of the most felicitous results of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 25 2015 08:50am

  • Jewel box

    You’ve got less than two months to enjoy the architectural drama of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library before it closes on May 18 for a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 24 2015 08:48am

  • Cold comfort

    Students are back from break, and the snow has almost disappeared from Cross Campus. Maybe it is spring after all. Except for the fact that... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 23 2015 10:43am

  • Dismantling the WASP establishment

    The York Street building that housed the preppy clothier J. Press from 1902 to 2013 is rapidly disappearing (though the store itself lives on at 260... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 20 2015 08:33am

  • 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

  • Payne Whitney Beach

    Not of all of us could get away to a tropical beach for spring break, but we can still go for a swim in 80-degree water at Payne Whitney Gymnasium.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 18 2015 08:20am

  • No blarney

    Happy St. Patrick’s Day! These shamrocks and harp, carved in stone at the Elm Street entrance to Berkeley College, are a tribute to Bishop... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 17 2015 08:18am

  • The great thaw

    Good morning, Science Hill! It's so good to see the grass again. We had kind of forgotten what it looked like.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 16 2015 10:17am

  • The art of the field trip

    Yale’s students may be on spring break, but the learning continues for these schoolchildren at the Yale University Art Gallery.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 13 2015 08:58am