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  • The water’s fine

    As it heats up today, we’re looking with envy at the goldfish that get to swim in the Kroon Hall pond. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 26 2018 10:39am

  • Summer projects

    McClellan Hall on the Old Campus is one of several buildings undergoing renovations this summer. The facilities department has a schedule of summer... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 25 2018 10:13am

  • Lazy, hazy, crazy

    Today is the first full day of summer, and the campus is buzzing with tourists and participants in summer programs. 72 degrees and partly... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 22 2018 02:07pm

  • Passing through

    It’s officially called Memorial Hall, but most people call it the Woolsey rotunda. Either way, it’s Yale’s most glorious shortcut.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 21 2018 10:39am

  • I just adore a penthouse view

    The penthouse of Paul Rudolph Hall, née the Art & Architecture Building, has been a guest suite for visiting professors and a café... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 20 2018 09:24am

  • Building Broadway

    Nearing completion on Elm Street: an L. L. Bean store at street level, housing for grad students above. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 19 2018 09:33am

  • Let there be lux

    We spotted these floor lamps being unloaded outside the Old Campus on Friday—presumably for participants in Explo at Yale, a summer program... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 18 2018 08:12am

  • Big move

    It was 300 years ago this fall that the Collegiate School (not yet known as Yale) brought its books from its old home in Saybrook to its new one in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 15 2018 10:21am

  • Old Glory

    It’s Flag Day in the United States—a good time to take a look at this historic flag, which hung in Woolsey Hall during the Glenn Miller... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 14 2018 09:19am

  • Swing shift

    Were you one of the thousands of Yalies who lived in the Tower Parkway “swing dorm” during 15 years of residence hall renovations? After... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 13 2018 10:20am

  • Sweet memories

    Al fresco dining, day two: there are two tables available outside Durfee’s, remembered by some of us as a “sweet shoppe” but now... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 12 2018 10:09am

  • Look out below

    It’s a perfect day for lunch al fresco next door to the Center for British Art. The subterranean restaurant space is now home to Harvest Wine... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 11 2018 02:08pm

  • Farewell to furniture

    After decades in the basement of 149 York Street, the Yale University Art Gallery’s furniture study is moving to the West Campus. (As their... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 8 2018 01:37pm

  • Raw material

    In the Librarian’s Courtyard of Sterling Memorial Library are these carvings of early papermaking, part of a series celebrating printing and... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 7 2018 10:48am

  • Still not tired

    Samuel Johnson said that “when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.” Some of us feel the same way about the Yale Center for... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 6 2018 08:42am

  • Let me show you around

    A tour group enjoyed a beautiful morning on Old Campus today. Alums, do you remember your first campus tour? How many of you were tour guides... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 5 2018 10:21am

  • Under way

    A new skylight on Becton Plaza is visible evidence of the new home for the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY), which is being... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 4 2018 10:37am

  • Let’s do it again

    The second weekend of reunions is here. Welcome to the Classes of ’58, ’63, ’68, ’73, ’78, ’08, and ’13! Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 1 2018 10:11am

  • Hillhouse pastorale

    Hillhouse Avenue looks beautiful on the last day of May, and the President’s House is flying the flags for the second weekend of reunions. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 31 2018 10:18am