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
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
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 | 1 comment
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
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
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
Fifty years ago this week, in 1970, students arriving on campus for the fall semester were greeted with a 64-page pamphlet called Sex and the Yale... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 17 2020 07:55am | 1 comment
Few of us remember seeing Hillhouse Avenue lined with majestic elm trees; the last of them died in 1972 after decades of struggle with Dutch elm... Read on