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  • En garde

    Spotted in the fencing salon on the seventh floor of Payne Whitney Gymnasium: apparently there’s more than one way to keep those reflexes... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 28 2015 08:41am

  • Inside the wall

    The beautiful fall days keep coming. Yesterday we visited Grove Street Cemetery and got this view of Memorial Hall and Sterling Tower. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 27 2015 08:43am

  • The art of autumn

    We’re reporting today from the Art Gallery on High Street as part of our continuous coverage of this breaking story: it’s fall. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 26 2015 08:57am

  • Gimme a break

    Undergrads are in the midst of their five-day fall break, so those of us left behind get all this foliage to ourselves. Classes resume Monday. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 23 2015 11:54am

  • That’s a wrap

    Premiering on Broadway yesterday (that’s New Haven’s Broadway): Junzi Kitchen, a quick-service restaurant featuring... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 22 2015 09:00am

  • Calder + nature

    Alexander Calder’s sculpture Gallows and Lollipops on Hewitt Quadrangle is temporarily upstaged by the fall foliage. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 21 2015 08:43am

  • Room at the top

    High above the Old Campus, on the eighth floor of Bingham Hall, this beautiful room offers great views and sun-drenched study space. It’s the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 20 2015 08:55am

  • Overlook

    Saturday was a perfect day to trek to the top of East Rock and look over the campus, the city, the Sound, and even Long Island. Did you ever make... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 19 2015 08:37am

  • Ghost mansion

    At the head of Hillhouse Avenue was once a mansion called Sachem’s Wood, not far from where Kline Biology Tower stands now. (See second... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 16 2015 11:19am

  • Silver and gold

    An autumnal locust tree provides a natural contrast to the concrete, stainless steel, and glass of the Center for British Art. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 15 2015 08:53am

  • Podcasting in person

    Tablet magazine brought its weekly podcast Unorthodox to a live audience at the Slifka Center for Jewish Life yesterday. Host Mark... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 14 2015 08:35am

  • Autumn is on

    A fiery maple snapped yesterday morning outside Watson Hall on Sachem Street. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 13 2015 08:59am

  • Ivy interloper?

    Spotted outside the President’s House on Hillhouse Avenue the other day: a black squirrel. We thought they were a Princeton thing. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 12 2015 09:00am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Inside the tower

    Tours of Harkness Tower and its carillon were part of Wednesday’s Founders Day festivities. Tell us your stories of climbing... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 9 2015 08:52am

  • Pumpkin spice Yale

    Yesterday was Founders Day, the second annual campuswide celebration of the granting of Yale’s charter 314 years ago this month. Yalies... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 8 2015 08:38am

  • The art of reading

    A bird’s-eye view of the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, housed in Paul Rudolph Hall (that’s the A+A Building to us old-timers) and... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 7 2015 08:36am

  • Closer to heaven

    On a beautiful fall morning, the sun warms the Sterling Divinity Quadrangle at the top of Prospect Hill. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 6 2015 09:50am

  • Liquid assets

    It’s Monday morning, and would-be MBAs are fueling up at the Evans Hall Café for another week at the School of Management. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 5 2015 09:34am

  • Harvest time

    This week marks Sukkot, the Jewish harvest festival—time for the community at the Slifka Center for Jewish Life to eat in the center’s... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 2 2015 08:59am