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Vincent Scully ’40, ’49PhD, Sterling Professor of the History of Art, died at his home in Lynchburg, Virginia, last night. He was 97... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 1 2017 10:26am
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It is likely that there are players on this year’s football team who were not yet walking—much less tackling—when Yale last beat... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 16 2017 08:25am
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Seventy-five years ago this month, Yale had the war on its mind, but not to the complete exclusion of football. (That’s Handsome Dan V, by the... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 2 2017 01:46pm
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Happy 259th birthday to Yale’s own Noah Webster, lexicographer, founder of New York’s first daily newspaper, and champion of an American... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 16 2017 10:11am |
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Lots of anniversaries to note: one hundred years ago yesterday, Yale laid the cornerstone (pictured) for the Memorial Quadrangle, the residence... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 9 2017 08:26am
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It’s supposed to top 90 degrees for the third straight day today, so we’ve been looking for things to do indoors around here. The... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 21 2017 08:55am
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You’ve heard a lot from us recently about Handsome Dans, past and present, but they’re not the only historic canines linked to Yale. Next... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 20 2017 11:07am
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Midshipman Forrest Simpson ’19 and Cadet Alex Tymchenko ’17 prepare to present a memorial wreath at a ceremony yesterday commemorating... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 7 2017 10:14am
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A plaque honoring pioneering physicist Edward Bouchet, Class of 1874, 1876PhD, has been installed on the side of Vanderbilt Hall. Placed by the... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 6 2017 10:05am
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With Washington’s Birthday transferred to the nearest Monday, February 22 now passes without a lot of notice. But for 60 years at Yale, the... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 22 2017 12:07pm
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Above the entrance to the Kiphuth Trophy Room in Payne Whitney Gymnasium is a portrait of the room’s namesake—legendary swimming coach... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 12 2017 08:49am
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On December 1, 1941, Ensign Edward S. Gosselin ’40S wrote home to his parents from the USS Arizona. “Mother & Dad, there is a... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 7 2016 08:07am
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On this date in 1716, the Yale Corporation voted to move the college—then known as the Collegiate School—from Saybrook to New Haven. The... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 17 2016 08:31am
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On a traffic signal box on Chapel Street, a photo mural reflects what once was across the street: Osborn Hall, the Yale classroom building that was... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 21 2016 08:44am
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As more and more academic resources go digital, Sterling Memorial Library still has a reminder of how it all started. This Albion hand press, built... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 6 2016 04:57am
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Happy Independence Day! In New Haven, it’s a day to honor Roger Sherman, the former mayor, senator, and Yale treasurer who signed all four of... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 4 2016 04:06am
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Throwback Thursday: fifty years ago this summer, workers spent three months installing 44 new bells in Harkness Tower to upgrade the existing chimes... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 9 2016 11:09am
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You’ll find Yale’s first microscope, a gorilla skeleton, dinosaur bones, and plenty of other wonderful artifacts in the Peabody... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 6 2016 08:50am
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Fifty years ago in our May 1966 issue,in an otherwise largely celebratory issue about urban renewal in New Haven, we featured Peter Countryman... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 3 2016 11:17am
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Before it was retrofitted into Branford and Saybrook College, Yale’s Memorial Quadrangle (1917) was the prototype for a new campus... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 19 2016 08:17am
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