Strumming on the old banjo
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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10:20am January 16 2019
Is that a banjo on the Cross Campus façade of Berkeley College? Indeed it is. Berkeley’s ornament features many totems of student life, and banjo and mandolin clubs were all the rage at Yale in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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