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  • Not forgotten

    Osborn Hall (1889–1926), a short-lived classroom building at College and Chapel Streets, was never much loved—in part because it... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 12 2019 10:14am

  • Pioneer women

    It’s International Women’s Day! This portrait by Brenda Zlamany of the first women to earn PhDs at Yale—they graduated together in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 8 2019 10:42am

  • Early adopters

    On this date in 1878, less than a month after the first telephone exchange was launched in New Haven, the company produced the first phone... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 21 2019 10:58am

  • Time capsule

    Posted near the entrance to Yale Station (and apparently long forgotten), this map is a memento of fin-de-siècle shuttle service. Dated... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 11 2019 01:32pm

  • Oldest college daily is one year older

    Happy birthday to our colleagues at the Yale Daily News, which debuted on this day in 1878. (Thirteen years later, they had the good sense to launch... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 28 2019 10:05am

  • Strumming on the old banjo

    Is that a banjo on the Cross Campus façade of Berkeley College? Indeed it is. Berkeley’s ornament features many totems of student life... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 16 2019 10:20am

  • Salvaged

    Just inside the glass façade of New Haven’s new Canal Dock Boathouse is a piece of Yale history: the entrance to the Adee Memorial... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 15 2019 12:14pm

  • Happy Birthday to Yale

    Yesterday was the 317th anniversary of Yale's founding by Connecticut's General Assembly—and the fifth Founders Day celebration. The new... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 10 2018 08:32am

  • Berkeley’s back story

    A member of our staff recently toured Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, England. Alums of Yale’s Berkeley College would be pleased to see... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 3 2018 08:23am

  • Throwback Thursday: uniforms

    Seventy-five years ago, the campus and our pages were filled with men in uniform. On our August 1943 cover, a civilian freshman offers a light to an... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 19 2018 09:03am

  • Big move

    It was 300 years ago this fall that the Collegiate School (not yet known as Yale) brought its books from its old home in Saybrook to its new one in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 15 2018 10:21am

  • Old Glory

    It’s Flag Day in the United States—a good time to take a look at this historic flag, which hung in Woolsey Hall during the Glenn Miller... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 14 2018 09:19am

  • Throwback Thursday: rethinking Commons in 1969

    Nearly 50 years before Yale launched a plan to transform Commons into a student center, architecture student Peter Hoyt ’70MArch had the same... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 12 2018 10:22am

  • Dam good

    What’s this stone carving on the side of Benjamin Franklin College all about? The fact that it faces the Farmington Canal Greenway is a clue:... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 5 2018 09:02am

  • Throwback Thursday: in the swim

    Fifty years ago, in our March 1968 issue, we profiled swimmer Don Schollander ’68 on the eve of his second trip to the Olympic Games, where he... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 1 2018 06:50am

  • May Day remembered

    Students, alumni, and New Haven residents gathered in the JE Art Gallery Thursday for a talk on the 1970 May Day protests. Sam Chauncey ’57... Read on
    Jack Taperell ’18 | February 23 2018 02:45pm

  • Making connections

    It’s easy to miss this stone carving hidden behind a tree on the Elm Street façade of Berkeley College. Rendered (inexplicably) in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 9 2018 08:56am

  • Thowback Thursday: Class Day during wartime

    From our January 1943 issue, 75 years ago. Students at Yale during World War II graduated on an accelerated schedule, which meant the Class of 1943... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 25 2018 02:07pm

  • Throwback Thursday: up on the roof

    Our January/February 2018 issue includes a photo essay on Payne Whitney Gymnasium. Coincidentally, so did our January 1968 issue exactly 50 years... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 18 2018 10:28am