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Yale History

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    Light & Verity

    Quoted

    Sep/Oct 2012
  • Light & Verity

    Lies my tour guide told me

    Popular tales heard on campus.

    Sep/Oct 2012
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    Letters to the Editor

    Our readers respond

    Memorable classes; eugenics and Yale; Singapore

    Sep/Oct 2012
  • features

    The pioneers

    In 1894, when women could not yet vote, seven remarkable scholars became the first women to earn Yale PhDs.

    Sep/Oct 2012
  • Old Yale

    Yale, Calhoun, and the War of 1812

    Yale and a favorite son rarely saw eye to eye.

    Jul/Aug 2012
  • American Philosophical Society

    features

    God and white men at Yale

    In the 1920s, leading thinkers—including the greatest economist America ever produced—focused their efforts on eugenics, preserving the Nordic stock, and the problem of “race suicide.”

    May/Jun 2012