Author Archives: Bess Hinson

Richard Sewall GRD ’33, longtime English professor and Emily Dickinson expert, died at his home in Newton, Mass., April 16. He was 95. In the literary world, Sewall is best-known for his books “The Life of Emily Dickinson” and “The Vision of Tragedy.” At Yale, where he taught for 42 years, Sewall is a legend. »

A New Haven Green littered with paper wrappers and foil was cleaned in a matter of seconds by hundreds of eager New Haven residents Saturday. But it wasn’t an environmental cleanup, it was the annual New Haven Easter Egg Hunt. The hunt saw children and older residents alike collecting plastic eggs filled with prizes and »

The women’s water polo team overcame player injuries to place second at the New England Championship Tournament last weekend. The Bulldogs competed at Wesleyan University April 12 and 13 as the No. 1 seed in the New England region. With a bid to nationals on the line, the team lost to Dartmouth in the tournament »

Tom Wolfe GRD ’57 may have studied at Yale in the 1950s, but he is still in touch with college life. Wolfe told students at a Calhoun Master’s Tea that his next book project is on college life. He said he had visited different colleges, from Stanford to the University of Florida, for research. “Everywhere »

The women’s water polo team (8-0) brings its undefeated record and No. 1 seed in the New England region to the New England Championship at Wesleyan University this weekend. A bid for the national championship will be on the line for the Bulldogs. Last weekend, the squad fine-tuned at MIT. The nationally ranked No. 6 »

Actor Christopher Reeve offered praise for researchers and sharp criticism of American policymakers as he urged students to support embryonic stem cell research during a talk at the School of Medicine Thursday. A packed auditorium of students, faculty and community members welcomed Reeve, who has become a stem cell advocate since he became paralyzed in »

Home cooking has now joined Pan Geos and the bread bars as a Yale Dining Services specialty. Yale’s residential college dining halls adopted a new weekly program, “Recipes from Home,” on Jan. 23. The program features recipes that parents or guardians of Yale students submit to the dining services. The program will continue each Thursday »

Allison Silverman ’94, a comedy writer for the “Late Show with Conan O’Brien,” is living her dream. “It’s like being God,” Silverman said. “It’s really something great to be in an audience, watch the people react to material I write, but be anonymous.” Often inserting witty anecdotes, Silverman spoke about her life after Yale, her »

As a boy, Lawrence Scripps Wilkinson played with electric trains. As a man, Wilkinson, a 1950 graduate of Yale College, still plays with electric trains. Wilkinson presides over an unparalleled collection. He owns 7,000 antique toys, ranging from original hand puppets from Burma to the 1969 edition of Mattel’s Barbie, complete with a hot rod »