Description
Book SynopsisBeginning in 1900 and concluding with the events of 2001, this title offers a chronological history of Yale College in the 20th Century. Using excerpts drawn primarily from contemporary Yale College publications and from writings and books by Yale College graduates, it portrays the day-to-day life and times at Yale College during the last century.
Trade Review"I join in the acclamation by everyone who has seen your remarkable book. It is brilliantly conceived and perfectly executed."—William F. Buckley, Jr.
-- William F. Buckley Jr.
"There has never been such a permanently valuable and brilliantly illustrated book about the history and culture of undergraduate Yale. Richard Gould has combined high talent for design and graphic reproduction with creative selection of fascinating detail year by year for a century. The book will stir memories and surprise even those who think they know Yale. . . .There is nothing like it."—George Gaddis Smith, Larned professor emeritus of history at Yale University -- George Gaddis Smith
"Thanks to the compiler’s endless care, unmatched archival labors, and extraordinary visual sense, each page of this volume retrieves the forgotten life of past moments, in pictures that read less like records of events than bursts of recovered vitality."—Richard Brodhead, former Dean of Yale College -- Richard Brodhead
