G. Gaddis Smith ’54 GRD ’61 — with his gray blazer and yellow t-shirt, his ironed khakis and casual sneakers — settles into a booth at the venerable Mory’s.
Nearly a century before Cross Campus Library was renamed Bass, the Cross Campus itself was to be called the “New Campus” and was to extend to Temple Street — about twice as far as Cross Campus does today.
Today the Gothic Gates of campus may appear to separate Yale from the rest of New Haven. In 1918, this barrier was taken to the extreme. That year, under fear of the influenza virus, the University placed itself under a virtual quarantine.
Ten men have had the distinction of being full-time President of Yale since 1878. Over the past 130 years, each has faced the challenges of governing the University in a changing world.
One of the earliest recorded Yale cheers, this chant printed in the News on Nov. 15, 1912, exemplifies the same confident optimism and catchy lyrics often associated with today’s cheerleading. But in sharp contrast to the often sexualized, feminine role of cheerleaders in today’s society, photographs and the News articles in the 10-year period from 1912 to 1921 reveal...
From Midwestern high schools and dorm rooms at Smith, Oberlin, Wellesley and Vassar, they packed their bags for a move to ivy-covered towers that were previously off limits.
A couple of years ago, a colleague walked into my office to tell me that, the night before, there had been a crisis at The Yale Daily News.
One of the greatest mysteries surrounding the Yale Daily News is surely this: How, for 130 years, have generations of Yalies been convinced to spend night after night working on a college daily?
A painting looms over the top floor of the Yale Daily News building, a portrait of a young man in a green eyeshade who wears a pencil-thin mustache and a mysterious sideways smile. His bright eyes follow you wherever you walk. He commands the room.
In September of 1974 I began working at the Briton Hadden Memorial Building. Raymond Wong and Charles Kaplan were the co-publishers who hired me.
