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  • Mission accomplished

    The facilities people are just trying to protect the new lawn recently installed at Sachem’s Wood on Science Hill. But with another six inches... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 19 2021 07:53am

  • Throwback Thursday: getting back to normal

    Seventy-five years ago, from our March 1946 issue, a scene of postwar life: returning veteran students “relaxing” (in suit and tie) with... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 18 2021 08:12am

  • Still standing

    A lot of us feel like this Cross Campus snowperson looks as we try to keep it all together this February. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 17 2021 08:11am

  • A walk in the snow

    The northern colleges (Benjamin Franklin on the left, Pauli Murray on the right) looked handsome in the twilight the other night. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 16 2021 07:48am

  • Hail to the chiefs

    Happy Presidents Day! In 1962, John F. Kennedy became the 11th US president to receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Yale. In all, 14... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 15 2021 08:38am

  • Downhill from there

    Yesterday was a beautiful day to try out Yale’s best sledding hill, behind the Sterling Divinity Quadrangle. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 12 2021 08:32am

  • Throwback Thursday: Glee

    Our February 1961 cover, designed by Norman Ives ’52MFA, commemorated the centennial of the Yale Glee Club. Any Glee Club alums out there? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 11 2021 08:01am

  • Nap time

    It’s been a good season for snow sculpture on campus this winter. We particularly liked this supine snowperson. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 10 2021 08:02am

  • Sandwich or swab?

    Dwight Hall has been pressed into service this year as both a COVID-19 testing site and a spot for distributing meals to Old Campus residents during... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 9 2021 08:50am

  • Mystery Monday: fence sitters

    The International Room in Sterling Memorial Library was once the Yale Memorabilia room, and its shelves are decorated with scenes of extracurricular... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 8 2021 08:05am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Back at its post

    Two and a half years after it was removed for the Schwarzman Center construction project, the cenotaph at the center of Yale’s World War I... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 5 2021 08:20am

  • Gathering

    Snow people tend to be rather lax about social distancing. We’re told they have natural immunities. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 4 2021 08:12am

  • Great white north

    Scenes from the snow on the northern reaches of the campus, courtesy of our new graduate fellow Noah Yann Lee ’26PhD. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 3 2021 08:35am

  • Stormy night

    New Haven got 15 inches of snow before all was said and done last night. Except for the howling winds, it was pretty quiet on Chapel Street. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 2 2021 08:07am

  • A snowy start

    It’s the first day of the “spring” semester, and this is just the beginning of a projected 8 to 12 inches of snow. Not a bad day... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 1 2021 08:58am

  • New semester, same pandemic

    Yesterday and today are move-in days for Yale College students for the spring semester. To accommodate social distancing, most first-years will be... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 29 2021 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: cold as Hale

    Seventy-five years ago, we featured a snow-covered Nathan Hale on our cover. You can still count on us today for all your snowy campus photo needs. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 28 2021 09:17am

  • Frosted lipstick

    New Haven has a thin blanket of snow this morning—enough to decorate the campus without causing a lot of trouble. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 27 2021 10:14am

  • Hallowed ground

    Today we learned that, 125 years ago, Yale’s now-iconic statue of Theodore Dwight Woolsey was originally going to sit in front of Durfee Hall.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 26 2021 08:06am