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One hundred years ago in October, ox carts brought three millstones to campus to adorn the brand new Harkness Memorial Quadrangle. They came from... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 23 2021 08:09am
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One hundred years ago this month, we reported on changes in Yale’s then-20-year-old Commons dining hall. Although “it is the same hall... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 9 2021 08:00am
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Fifty years ago this fall, we reported on the 1971 bladderball game, calling it “one of the most durable of Yale institutions.” But it... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 2 2021 07:51am
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Twenty-five years ago this month, President Richard Levin ’74PhD welcomed first-year students to Yale at what was then called the Freshman... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 5 2021 08:05am
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Football will be back this fall after a year’s absence, starting with Holy Cross on September 18 and ending with The Game at The Bowl on... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 22 2021 09:30am
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Twenty-five years ago this month, Annie Murphy Paul ’96 schooled alums on the significance of the Wawa store on York Street. Not long after... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 8 2021 08:00am
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We've been in the looking-back business for a long time: 100 years ago, we published this photo of the Yale baseball team from 150 years ago. We'd... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 24 2021 07:51am
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Kingman Brewster Jr. ’41, who was president of Yale from 1963 to 1977, was born on this date in 1919. Alums, do you have any memories of... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 17 2021 07:50am
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One hundred twenty-five years ago today, in our June 10, 1896, issue, we celebrated the upcoming dedication of the Theodore Dwight Woolsey statue... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 10 2021 07:39am
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One of the things we’ll miss about in-person reunions this year is the mingling of alumni across the generations. New Yorker cartoonist... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 27 2021 08:03am
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Thirty-five years ago this spring, student activists built a shanty town on Beinecke Plaza as a protest against Yale’s investments in South... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 6 2021 09:39am
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Twenty years ago this month, we celebrated the new Gilder Boathouse on our cover. Alums, what do you remember most about rowing on the Housatonic at... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 22 2021 08:00am
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Ten years ago, we covered the School of the Environment’s annual mustache contest. In a scene unthinkable in pandemic times, Ryan Sarsfield... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 15 2021 08:00am
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On an April night 75 years ago, Yale students savored the return of a tradition interrupted by war: the Yale Prom. With luck and diligence, the... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 8 2021 07:57am
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In the midst of a year without varsity sports at Yale, let’s pause to remember five years ago, when the men’s basketball team notched... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 18 2021 07:54am
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Seventy-five years ago, from our March 1946 issue, a scene of postwar life: returning veteran students “relaxing” (in suit and tie) with... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 18 2021 08:12am
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Our February 1961 cover, designed by Norman Ives ’52MFA, commemorated the centennial of the Yale Glee Club. Any Glee Club alums out there? Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 11 2021 08:01am
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Seventy-five years ago, we featured a snow-covered Nathan Hale on our cover. You can still count on us today for all your snowy campus photo needs. Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 28 2021 09:17am
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Fifty years ago, in our February 1971 issue, we reported on the hard times facing the traditional campus purveyors of men’s wear in an age of blue... Read on
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Back in 1895, the Alumni Weekly was big on sports, but we did not neglect the fine arts. Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 12 2020 07:56am
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