In our new issue: a remembrance of William Donaldson '53, founding dean of @yalesom. buff.ly/3XmylvQ

Mystery Monday: on Mondays (when we feel like it), we like to show you a detail from somewhere on campus and let you figure out where it is. Anyone recognize this exuberant stone carving?

The gate leading into Branford College's Linonia Court was spiffed up over the summer.

For author Slang Teacher ’90, Yale was “such a fruitful time for thinking about gender and LGBTQ questions and literature and criticism and art. Even though a third of my class applied to work at banks after graduating, I found the freaks.” Q&A: buff.ly/4e1HbGG

#tbt: Our October 1984 cover featured President A. Bartlett Giamatti ’60, ’64PhD, greeting new students after the Graduate and Professional Assembly. But the magazine didn't identify the students. Anyone recognize them?

September is when the campus bulletin boards sport a new layer of dense foliage.

Our latest Old Yale column explains the unusual architecture of the President's House. buff.ly/3MHVlk4

On Friday, people poured onto College Street for New Haven's ninth annual Apizza Feast. Sally's, Pepe's, and more than a dozen other local pizza purveyors were selling slices. Debuting this year: a 13-foot steel pizza-slice sculpture by artist Michael Pollack.

Plans for the new Physical Sciences and Engineering Building, which will be one of the largest buildings on campus, have inspired a reshaping of Science Hill. buff.ly/47seujE

Today is Constitution Day, the 237th anniversary of the signing of the US Constitution. On Sunday, the Beinecke Library displayed a number of its Constitution-related artifacts. Shown here: the first public printing of the document, in a Philadelphia newspaper on September 19.

You never know what you might find on a Sunday afternoon stroll across campus. This time it was double Dutch on Beinecke Plaza.

In our latest issue: Yale School of Management professor William Goetzmann on the Yale Peabody Museum's Umma-Lagash cone, a 4,000-year-old ceramic vessel that describes a diplomatic treaty, a war, and the concept of compounding interest. buff.ly/47yoyYh

#tbt: The 151st Yale Football team—or Team 151, as they style themselves—has its season opener on Saturday at Holy Cross. We just ran across this photo of Team 51 in our November 14, 1924, issue.

One legacy of the COVID era on campus is the variety of places Yale provides to sit outside. We found a half dozen people working in the shade of this tent in the courtyard of the Humanities Quadrangle recently.

Reviewed in our current issue: A book on how food and history intersect, a Mexican-American author's debut novel, and a podcast that dissects unsuccessful TV comedy pilots. Paul Freedman Nicolás Medina Mora Dead Pilots Society buff.ly/3BcufiC

Did early Christians worship secretly in "house churches"? A Yale doctoral student raises doubts after taking a closer look at what was long thought to be the only clearly identified example. buff.ly/3XTs9go

Mystery Monday: one of our editors has been roaming the campus for decades now looking for hidden details in Yale's architecture. Just when he thought he'd seen it all, he looked up and came face to face with this unsettling visage. Can anyone guess where it is?

As of Sunday, it's officially fall. A few trees on campus have gotten the memo.