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April 2025

  • Robert Frost was right

    Hello from Branford Court, looking good in its spring finery. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 29 2025 03:49am

  • Mystery Monday: numbers game

    A series of stone carvings on the Cross Campus–facing sides of Berkeley College commemorate Yale offices that were housed on the site when it... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 28 2025 03:54am

  • A-peeling headwear

    Two cheers for the safety-minded Saybrugian who refrained from tossing a banana peel on the ground. But surely they could have found a better place... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 25 2025 01:21am

  • Throwback Thursday: the art of lacrosse

    Seventy-five years ago, in April 1950, we published this curious pairing of cover line and cover photo. We suppose art is in the eye of the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 23 2025 07:08am

  • Have a bite before you go

    Prospective students saw a warm, sunny campus this week for Bulldog Days, ending with a farewell lunch provided by a row of local food trucks on... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 23 2025 11:04am

  • It might as well be spring

    The pear trees in the courtyard of Lanman-Wright Hall are in bloom. With temperatures in the 70s today, spring has indisputably arrived. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 22 2025 10:50am

  • Puparazzi

    Today begins the three days of Bulldog Days, when admitted students come to campus to see if Yale is the place for them. When we stopped by Old... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 21 2025 09:26am

  • Throwback Thursday: presidential summit

    Our July 6, 1934, cover featured three presidents: Yale's James Rowland Angell, Harvard's James B. Conant, and president of the United States... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 16 2025 11:39am

  • Spring comes to Silliman

    A cheering sight in the Silliman College courtyard. The campus looks more beautiful every day. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 16 2025 05:27am

  • Getting warmer

    It was sunny and 60 degrees yesterday, and students were making the most of it on Beinecke Plaza. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 15 2025 04:22am

  • Mystery Monday: good combination

    Where on campus did we find this stone carving? It's part of a frieze with a longer literary quotation. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 14 2025 04:46am | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/4585-mystery-monday-good-combination?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 1 comment</a></span>

  • Good clean fun

    The giant-soap-bubble season got under way on Cross Campus yesterday. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 11 2025 04:45am

  • High art

    When the Yale University Art Gallery was renovated in 2012, one felicitous addition was the sculpture terrace on the Louis Kahn building's roof... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 9 2025 06:20am

  • Blossoming

    More evidence of spring's awakening: cherry blossoms in a Hillhouse Avenue back garden frame Bass Tower. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 8 2025 08:13am

  • Now and then: two inaugurations

    On Sunday, Maurie McInnis ’96PhD was formally inaugurated as Yale's 24th president. 75 years ago, in our November 1950 issue, we published... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 9 2025 08:00pm

  • Embodied sunshine

    It's a drizzly, dreary day in New Haven, but the daffodils are doing their best to cheer us up. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 7 2025 09:06am

  • Installing No. 24

    Banners line Beinecke Plaza in anticipation of the inauguration of Maurie McInnis ’96PhD, Yale's 24th president, on Sunday. The weekend will... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 4 2025 06:14am

  • Throwback Thursday: shattering the glass doghouse ceiling

    Fifty years ago, in our April 1975 issue, we celebrated the ascension of Handsome Dan XII, Yale's first (and so far only) female mascot. Known as... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Branch ’86</span> | April 3 2025 04:02am

  • Cross training

    What do ice hockey players do when spring arrives? Yesterday, we found these four kicking a soccer ball out in front of their home ice. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 2 2025 04:47am