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          Once the degree is in hand, the only thing left to do is empty out the dorm room and fill up the SUV. So long, Class of 2015! Come back soon....  Read on 
          
              Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 19 2015 08:36am
           
         
       
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          The scene on Cross Campus, where graduates queue up for the march to the Old Campus for Commencement, gets more colorful every year. The Divinity School...  Read on 
          
              Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 18 2015 02:06pm
           
         
       
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          The folding chairs are all in place, the jumbotrons are being tested, and Nathan Hale has an elevated view for Yale’s 314th commencement on...  Read on 
          
              Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 15 2015 08:50am
           
         
       
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          This week, Yale announced a $150 million gift from Stephen Schwarzman ’69 to create the Schwarzman Center, a student center and performing arts...  Read on 
          
              Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 14 2015 09:00am
           
         
       
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          The tulips in the south courtyard of Berkeley College bear the college colors. No tiptoeing through them, please....  Read on 
          
              Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 12 2015 10:11am
           
         
       
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          You’ll let us know if you get tired of these pictures of the campus in spring, right? We’re not really tired of them yet....  Read on 
          
              Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 12 2015 08:36am
           
         
       
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          Classes are over, and the people who work at Yale are busily preparing the campus for Commencement. Mother Nature is doing her part, too....  Read on 
          
              Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 11 2015 08:06am
           
         
       
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          Since the late 1980s, Yale seniors have descended by the hundreds on Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, during the week between the end of finals and the...  Read on 
          
              Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May  8 2015 08:27am
           
         
       
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          Final exams ended at 5:30 yesterday, and underclasspeople must be out of their rooms by noon today. Academic year number 314 is now all over but for the...  Read on 
          
              Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May  7 2015 03:50pm
           
         
       
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          For a first-year architecture class called Visualization, a team including Rob Cornelissen ’17MArch (left) and Caroline Acheatel ’17MArch...  Read on 
          
              Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May  6 2015 08:10am
           
         
       
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          The joy of spring comes to Cross Campus, to be followed in a couple of weeks by three thousand graduates and their families....  Read on 
          
              Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May  5 2015 09:02am
           
         
       
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          It’s finals week, and students all over campus are likely following the example of this scholar (no pipe smoking indoors, though, please). Anybody...  Read on 
          
              Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May  4 2015 08:52am
           
         
       
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          The 75 cadets and midshipmen in Yale’s Air Force and Navy ROTC detachments paraded before President Peter Salovey ’86PhD and hundreds of...  Read on 
          
              Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May  1 2015 06:55am
           
         
       
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          E-mailing a final paper to your professor is one thing. Standing up and defending your semester’s work to a panel of prominent architects is...  Read on 
          
              Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 30 2015 08:40am
           
         
       
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          Joel LaChance, aka the Goatville Cyclesmith (shown here in front of Sterling Memorial Library) maintains the fleet of bicycles used in the campus-wide...  Read on 
          
              Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 29 2015 08:39am
           
         
       
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          Alongside the Farmington Canal Trail at Hillhouse Avenue, forsythia blooms greet cyclists and runners. (That’s the Malone Engineering Center at...  Read on 
          
              Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 28 2015 08:42am
           
         
       
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          The last day of classes in Yale College on Friday coincided with the Hindu Students Council’s celebration of Holi. Students gathered on the lawn...  Read on 
          
              Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 27 2015 08:34am
           
         
       
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          Today is the last day of classes in Yale College: the beginning of an annual struggle between studying for finals and enjoying the long-awaited New...  Read on 
          
              Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 24 2015 09:12am
           
         
       
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          “The quality of mercy is not strain’d; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.” Happy 451st birthday to...  Read on 
          
              Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 23 2015 08:38am
           
         
       
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          A new addition to the Ezra Stiles College common room—a mural called  Rise—was unveiled yesterday at a reception with the artist, Odili...  Read on 
          
              Eric Stern ’15 | April 22 2015 08:32am
           
         
       
   
  
 
           
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