November/December 2008
Volume 72, Number 2
Photos at left are from various departments. Click on photos to read stories. (Credits, from top: ©Bettman/Corbis, ©Walker
Evans Archive/The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ©Gregory Nemec.)
Feature stories:
A hard building to love
by Blair
Kamin '84MEnvD
Can it be a masterpiece if it’s
impossible to live with? The Chicago Tribune’s architecture critic revisits the
building he despised as a student, and has a revelation.
Press run
by Alex Beam '75
The long and varied career of Yale
University Press, from Dylan and de Kooning to a history of the hamburger.
Harvard Beats Yale
29–29
by Charles McGrath '68
The most heartbreaking football game
in Yale history lives again, in an indie film.
First days at Yale
The Freshman Address
by Richard C.
Levin '74PhD
Although the economy looks bad,
Yale’s president told the Class of 2012, Yale presents "a time of
opportunity" for entering freshmen.
How hard is it to get into Yale?
Stats on
acceptance and matriculation for 2008’s first-year students.
Now arriving
First-years talk about
their past and future.
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