About Yale
This Tumblr is a photo album, sketchbook and moodboard of sights and sounds from around the University and our home, New Haven, Connecticut. Some truly incredible people live, learn, teach and play here - we would like to introduce you to a few of them.
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This photo shows an old Yale commencement tradition. The Presentation Day custom was to bring pipes outside and smoke, and then set them upright and do a “stag dance” where they ran around and broke their pipes to seal their friendships.
Presentation Day evolved into Class Day, and while pipes are still distributed as per tradition, students now use them to blow bubbles and keep as souvenirs.
This will be the final commencement overseen by outgoing Yale University President Richard C. Levin.
Yale has awarded 261,657 degrees since the first commencement of 1702 and President Levin has conferred 57,366 of those in his two decades of service. This contact sheet shows scenes from his first commencement as president in 1994.
On this day (May 14) in 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark departed from St. Louis, Missouri to lead the first American overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back.
Check out the maps Lewis and Clark used during their expedition via the Western Americana Collection at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
This is the first book printed in what is now the United States - the Bay Psalm Book of 1640.
Only 11 of these hymnals have survived, including one at the Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Learn more about the book in the Beinecke’s digital archive.
What should you do right after checking out the ongoing “Echoes of Egypt” exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History?
Create a personalized cartouche! Can you guess what this one says?
