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Old Yale Archive
Firing the Firebrand
by Judith Ann Schiff
May/June 2005
Jerome Davis: "Anarchist, Bolshevist, and Communist."
Just Say "Amen"
by Judith Ann Schiff
March/April 2005
When Yale commited apostasy.
Ichabod's Progress
by Judith Ann Schiff
January/February 2005
Long before Michael Doonesbury, there was Ichabod Academicus.
When East Met West
by Judith Ann Schiff
November/December 2004
Yung Wing, Class of 1854, was the first Chinese student to graduate from a U.S. university.
How the Secret Societies Got That Way
by Judith Ann Schiff
September/October 2004
The presidential race between Bonesmen George W. Bush '68 and John Kerry '66 thrust Yale's secret societies into the national spotlight.
Aloha Blue
by Judith Ann Schiff
July/August 2004
The Hawaii focus of the early foreign missionary movement grew out of a chance meeting in New Haven between Edwin W. Dwight, Class of 1809, and a young Hawaiian named Opukahaia.
Yale's First Student
by Judith Ann Schiff
May/June 2004
In the beginning, Yale was a simple place: one teacher, one student, no campus.
What Yale Brought to the Fair
by Judith Ann Schiff
March/April 2004
Attendees of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair had their first encounters with modern automobiles, airplanes, and x-rays; experienced air conditioning and electric lighting; and ate their first ice cream cones. They also got a taste of Yale.
King and Kingman
by Judith Ann Schiff
January/February 2004
Martin Luther King Jr. was bailed out of jail in June 1964 to receive an honorary degree at Yale.
Wonah'ilayhunka, Class of 1910
by Judith Ann Schiff
November/December 2003
Henry Roe Cloud, born Wonah'ilayhunka (War Chief), was Yale's first Native American graduate in 1910.
Heart of Glass
by Judith Ann Schiff
September/October 2003
On the windows of Sterling Memorial Library, there
are knights and ladies, doctors and nurses, saints and characters from Shakespeare.
All of them -- the majority brilliantly rendered reproductions, some of them
original art -- are the work of G. Owen Bonawit (1891-1971).
Pomp? Circumstance? Yes,
It All Started at Yale
by Judith Ann Schiff
Summer 2003
Edward Elgar never intended Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 for
commencement ceremonies, let alone American commencement ceremonies.
"High Flight"
by Judith Ann Schiff
May 2003
Amid the condolences after the crash of the Columbia space shuttle
was a familiar phrase about how the shuttle crew had "touched the face
of God." The words came from a poem called "High Flight" by John G.
Magee Jr., who was admitted to Yale's Class of 1944 but deferred entry to
enlist as a fighter pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force.
A
Social Center for the "Scientifics"
by Judith Ann Schiff
April 2003
By the time of Yale's bicentennial in 1901, the Sheffield Scientific School,
a three-year undergraduate college whose curriculum led to the bachelor of
philosophy degree, was catching up with Yale College.
An Eccentric Economist
by Judith Ann Schiff
March 2003
Yale professor Irving Fisher (1867-1947), a pioneer in mathermatical economics,
is remembered more for one bad financial prediction than for considerable
accomplishments in his academic discipline and in fields as seeming different
as world peace and personal health.
History on Ice
by Judith Ann Schiff
February 2003
More than a century after Yale and Johns Hopkins took to the ice in Baltimore,
the precise date that marks the collegiate inauguration of the sport in this
country remains a matter of contention.
When Yale Schooled for
War
by Judith Ann Schiff
December 2002
Sixty years ago the Yale campus was tranfsormed into a World War II military
base, and no class experienced the transition more dramatically than the
Class of 1943 -- by graduating in 1942.
Rudy Vallee, The First
Crooner
by Judith Ann Schiff
November 2002
One of the most popular singers of the 20th century actually intended to
become a small-town pharmicist in Maine, but the saxophone led Rudy Vallee
in a different direction.
The Battell Connection
by Judith Ann Schiff
October 2002
The music progam at Yale owes a great debt to a quartet of talented women
from Norfolk, Connecticut.
Derby Day
by Judith Ann Schiff
Summer 2002
When the Yale crowd talked of going to Derby Day in the 1920s, 1930s, and
1940s, they did not mean the horse races at Churchill or Epsom Downs. Instead,
Yale's premier social event of the spring focused on the boat races in nearby
Derby, Connecticut.
Yale and the Origins
of Intercollegiate Baseball
by Judith Ann Schiff
May 2002
A team from Yale played in the first truly modern intercollegiate baseball
game.
John Hay Whitney
by Judith Ann Schiff
April 2002
The stroke of the university crew in junior and senior years, "Jock" Whitney
'26 became part of crew history by inspiring the coining of the term "crew
cut."
Peacemakers of the Past
by Judith Ann Schiff
March 2002
When the First World War ended, much of Yale's gratitude flowed to its combat
veterans. It took longer to catch up with the alumni who helped negotiate
the conflict's aftermath.
An Unsung Hero of Medical
Research
by Judith Ann Schiff
February 2002
Early in the 20th century, a shy and self-effacing Yale professor of anatomy
named Ross Granville Harrison discovered a way to grow cells outside the
body.
The Tale of Yale's Governor
Ingersoll House
by Judith Ann Schiff
December 2001
The last remaining Greek Revival residence of the imposing stretch of Elm
Street known as Quality Row faces the New Haven Green at the corner of Elm
and Temple Streets.
Henry Parks Wright: Yale
First College Dean
by Judith Ann Schiff
November 2001
Wright Memorial Hall on the Old Campus (renamed Lanman-
Wright Hall in 1993) was the first building at Yale to be named in honor
of a living person.
James Hillhouse: For
New Haven, for Country, and for Yale
by Judith Ann Schiff
October 2001
During his tenure as president, Richard C. Levin has become known for his
skill at bringing town and gown closer together. But he was hardly the first
Yale administrator to meld the interest of the university and its host city.
The Irony of Woodbridge
Hall
by Judith Ann Schiff
Summer 2001
The man for whom Yale's administration building was named was not at first
a New Haven fan.
Secret Gardens
by Judith Ann Schiff
May 2001
The flowering of the Branford courtyard and the rest of the university campus
can be traced to the efforts of landscape architect Beatrix Farrand.
Fore!
by Judith Ann Schiff
April 2001
Yale's golf course was one of the places where the sport got its American
start.
Nathan Hale Slept Here
by Judith Ann Schiff
February 2001
Students rooming in Connecticut Hall, where conditions were "necessarily
untenable a great part of the yare," were survivors. So was the building.
Bringing on the "Bruisers"
by Judith Ann Schiff
December 2000
Basketball began in Springfield, but the five-man team was a Yale invention.
Maybe.
Learning by Doing
by Judith Ann Schiff
November 2000
Benjamin Silliman Sr. was an amateur when he began Yale's efforts in science
education, research, and art collecting. He quickly turned pro.
Rerunning the Y-H-P White
House Race
by Judith Ann Schiff
October 2000
Yale, Harvard, and Princeton alums are clashing in this year's battle for
the White House. It seems like old times.
The Birthplace of Scientific
Farming
by Judith Ann Schiff
March 2000
Once an elegant New Haven residence, the estate at 52 Hillhouse Avenue has
since been home to agriculturists and business researchers.
The Lipstick: From Anti-War
to "Morse Resource"
by Judith Ann Schiff
February 2000
Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks by Pop Art sculptor Claes
Oldenburg '50 mysteriously appeared on the Beinecke Plaza during the spring
of 1969.
The Birth, Near-Demise,
and Comeback of "Bright College Years"
by Judith Ann Schiff
December 1999
An instant hit in the 19th century, Yale's unofficial alma mater was nearly
a casualty of the first World War.
Getting Yale on the Right
Track
by Judith Ann Schiff
November 1999
Town and gown rode the rails together when Yale and New Haven held joint
festivities to honor the university's first leader of the 20th century.
Levi Jackson: Hometown
Hero
by Judith Ann Schiff
October 1999
The first African-American to captain a Yale football team continued his
leadership off the field.
Before the Fall
by Judith Ann Schiff
Summer 1999
Letters home from future Yale president A. Whitney Griswold painted a wry,
carefree picture of life in the Class of 1929. But the class, which just
had its 70th reunion, was soon to learn some hard lessons.
When Elis Ruled the Skies
by Judith Ann Schiff
May 1999
Just after the Great War, veterans-turned-students squared off in a test
of aerial ability. The future founder of Pan Am helped lead Yale to victory.
Before He Came to Dinner
by Judith Ann Schiff
April 1999
When Monty Woolley was forced out of his job at Yale, students and alumni
rose up in protest. But it may have been the best thing that ever happened
to him.
The Peabody's "Bone-Digger"
by Judith Ann Schiff
March 1999
Othniel C. Marsh bagged boxcars full of dinosaur bones for Yale, dodging
buffalo and befriending Indians along the way.
An Architect of the Moment
by Judith Ann Schiff
February 1999
Eero Saarinen broke out of the box of architectural orthodoxy to give the
university three of its most distinguished modern buildings.
A Toast to "Legal
Inebriation"
by Judith Ann Schiff
December 1998
In December 1933, Yale students enjoyed the taste of "real beer" for the
first time since the repeal of Prohibition. But they hadn't exactly been
teetotalers up to then.
A "Jubilee" that
Ushered in the Theater
by Judith Ann Schiff
November 1998
In the mid-1800s, Yale undergraduates gave thanks with a program of farce,
drama, and hijinks known as the Thanksgiving Jubilee.
Artist in the Backfield
by Judith Ann Schiff
October 1998
Before the artist Frederic Remington began chronicling the life of the cowboy,
he tried another rough-and-tumble pursuit: Yale football.
Tales of the True Fence
by Judith Ann Schiff
Summer 1998
In 1888, the Corporation decided to remove the venerable Yale Fence. But
souvenir-seeking students and alumni took the demolition upon themselves.
The Greatest College
Cheer
by Judith Ann Schiff
May 1998
"Brek-ek-ek-ex ko-ax, KO-ax" leapt from the pages of Aristophanes -- and spurred
the baseball team to a championship season.
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