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Yale History

  • Light & Verity

    The cost of Yale: a history

    The Yale College term bill will top $60,000 next year. Here are the figures for the last 75 years—in actual dollars and adjusted for inflation.

    May/Jun 2015 | Ico comments 6 comments
  • features

    The origins of the tomb

    How Skull and Bones found a home.

    May/Jun 2015 | Ico comments 3 comments
  • features

    How science came to Yale

    Benjamin Silliman, a young lawyer, traveled to Philadelphia in 1802 with a few mineral specimens in a candle box. It was Yale’s first step on the path to becoming a university.

    Mar/Apr 2015
  • Old Yale

    The invention of the Alumni Fund

    The oldest annual giving program in America was launched in 1890.

    Mar/Apr 2015
  • features

    Déjà vu

    Yale’s newest residential colleges will be modeled on their forebears.

    Mar/Apr 2015 | Ico comments 7 comments
  • Milestones

    An advocate for Yale women

    Remembering Elga Wasserman ’76JD, who led coeducation in the college.

    Jan/Feb 2015