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Mystery Monday: shortest, gladdest years

By Mark Alden Branch ’86 | 8:00am July 19 2021

As the plaque tells you, Yale’s alma mater was written in this campus building. Can you search through memory's haze and tell us which building?

Filed under Mystery Monday, Bright College Years

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  • George Huthsteiner '74 TD
    George Huthsteiner '74 TD, 12:52pm July 24 2021 | Ico flag Flag as inappropriate

    FARNAM HALL
    On the campus side (west), incised into the stone of the building,
    * ground level between the middle and south entries, north and middle windows:
    BRIGHT COLLEGE YEARS/ WAS WRITTEN BY/ HENRY
    STRONG DURAND 18811 IN THE ROOM WITHIN/
    The room referred to is number 199.
    <<>> 1963 Yale Memorials Yale University, Office of the Secretary

  • Mark Branch
    Mark Branch, 2:55pm July 26 2021 | Ico flag Flag as inappropriate

    That's correct! I think the frame is a relatively recent addition. I don't remember it from my time on the Old Campus in the ’80s.

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