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November/December 2010
Volume 74, Number 2

Credits, from top: ©Matthew Klein, ©Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, and ©Julie Brown.

Feature stories:

Singapore Spinoff
by Mark Alden Branch ’86
Yale’s plan to bet its brand on a new college in Asia.

Mory’s Comes Back
The club of Old Blue tradition is open again. How successful is the reincarnation? Our team of reviewers finds out.

Your Cliff’s Notes on Yale School of Medicine
Some lofty heights, and a few ignominious lows, of 200 years of medical education.

First Days at Yale

The Freshman Address
by Rick Levin ’74PhD
President Levin welcomes the Class of 2014.

By the Numbers
How old are Yale’s newest additions?

Incoming
First-years talk about their first impressions.

 

 

Special online features for this issue of the print magazine include:

Pictures of and interviews with freshmen who went on hiking trips as part of their Yale orientation

Photos of brand-new Yale students and interviews about their first impressions and future plans

Alumni comments on Yale’s proposal for a new college in Singapore

from the editor
A call for discussion about Yale’s proposal for a new college in Singapore.

letters
Velázquez or not?; the “lunatic fringe”; skepticism about the West Campus.

light & verity
+ Locally grown picnic tables
+ Return trip for streetcars?
+ Alumni by the Numbers
+ Morse College fountain
+ Yale Aerial Manipulator
+ Bringing back the chestnut tree
+ Webwatching
+ Reshuffling—and growing—the engineering school
+ Campus Clips
+ Quoted
+ Yale’s new Sustainability Strategic Plan

milestones
+ New head librarian faces the digital age
+ More news of Yale people

where they are now
The arduous recovery from a “mild” brain injury

scene on campus
Freshman Outdoor Orientation Trips (FOOT)

old yale
Yalies in the far north

q&a: rick levin
Yale president Rick Levin ’74PhD talks about about Yale’s Singapore proposal

findings
+ Watching paint dry
+ Most patients can’t name their doctor
+ Noted
+ The “Hillary Clinton Effect”
+ Several chemicals can be better than one

arts & culture
+ Object Lesson: Justice on & off her pedestal
+ You Can Quote Them: quotations by fictional Yalies
+ Calendar
+ Garry Trudeau, Artist
+ Books by Yale authors
+ Religious movie posters

sporting life
Henry Harutunian, the man who’s kept Yale fencers en garde for 40 years

news from alumni house
Why loyalty?

the yale classifieds
Bulldog sculpted jewelry … Swedish Dala horses … unusual gift ideas for the holidays.

school notes
News from Yale’s graduate and professional schools

deaths

last look
For sale: Yale’s castoffs

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