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  • Throwback Thursday: Woolsey in bronze

    One hundred twenty-five years ago today, in our June 10, 1896, issue, we celebrated the upcoming dedication of the Theodore Dwight Woolsey statue... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 10 2021 07:39am

  • Throwback Thursday: postwar procession

    Who remembers Hewitt Quadrangle before the Beinecke Library was built? This image from our July 1946 cover shows the first peacetime commencement... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 20 2021 08:09am

  • Throwback Thursday: building a movement

    Thirty-five years ago this spring, student activists built a shanty town on Beinecke Plaza as a protest against Yale’s investments in South... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 6 2021 09:39am

  • Throwback Thursday: monumental occasion

    Forty years ago, on May 6, 1981, the design of Maya Lin ’81, ’86MArch, was revealed to be the winner of the competition for the Vietnam... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 29 2021 08:22am

  • Throwback Thursday: postwar prom

    On an April night 75 years ago, Yale students savored the return of a tradition interrupted by war: the Yale Prom. With luck and diligence, the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 8 2021 07:57am

  • Mystery Monday: grave matters

    Where on campus can you find this tribute to the “first rector of ye colledege?" To be clear, Pierson does not in fact lie there; the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 5 2021 07:47am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Throwback Thursday: haberdasher’s lament

    Fifty years ago, in our February 1971 issue, we reported on the hard times facing the traditional campus purveyors of men’s wear in an age of blue... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 21 2021 01:33pm | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Happy Thanksgiving to all!

    Back in 1890, football was part of Thanksgiving at Yale, as seen in Frederic Remington’s painting (from the Yale Art Gallery) of that... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 25 2020 06:30am

  • Mystery Monday: found art

    We’ve been told that this sculpture near the campus was made from pieces of Yale’s old printing press at 149 York Street. Can anyone... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 23 2020 08:10am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Throwback Thursday: strings attached

    Back in 1895, the Alumni Weekly was big on sports, but we did not neglect the fine arts. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 12 2020 07:56am

  • Throwback Thursday: Torre de Harkness

    A hundred years ago this fall, Harkness Tower was inching skyward, as this December 1920 cover photo shows. Note the warning sign in English and... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 29 2020 07:51am

  • Mystery Monday: spooning

    Today’s mystery concerns this carving in Sterling Memorial Library’s International Room: what Yale tradition is depicted here? And... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 26 2020 08:45am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Throwback Thursday: Yalies of yore

    Missing Yale football this season? Here's a page from our archives featuring the team from 125 years ago. The 1895 squad finished 13–0–2... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 22 2020 08:27am

  • Throwback Thursday: big top

    All over campus this semester, Yale has put up tents to give students more places to safely congregate during the pandemic. But this photo from our... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 8 2020 08:06am

  • Happy 319th!

    It was 319 years ago today that the Colony of Connecticut granted ten ministers a charter to erect a school “wherein Youth may be instructed... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 9 2020 08:06am