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October 1995
Volume 59, Number 1

Feature stories:

Collecting From the Heart
by Bruce Fellman
For nearly half a century, Richard Brown Baker ’35 has been collecting art with an uncanny eye for quality. By bequeathing most of his trove to the Yale Art Gallery, he has elevated its already powerful contemporary holdings to new heights.

Remembering a Musical Master
by Peter Hawes
Paul Hindemith came to teach at the School of Music in 1940 as a refugee from the Nazis. Celebrations marking the centennial of his birth confirm his enigmatic legacy as a composer—and his memorable impact as a mentor.

Public Health and Medicine’s Future
by Bruce Fellman
The reappearance of ancient scourges such as plague and the emergence of new ones like AIDS are challenging the traditional methods of health care. Under a new dean, the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health is joining the battle with some unorthodox strategies.

The Freshman Address
by Richard Levin ’74PhD
The President welcomed the College Class of 1999 with a speech that concentrated on the seriousness of the academic endeavor.

Letters

Faces

Calendar

News from Alumni House

Light & Verity
+  the last College class of the century is the first to have more women than men
+  graduate students are finally getting a center of their own
+  revamping the food service
+  history teachers as student
+  a new terminal for New Haven’s airport
+  the Nursing School’s change of address;
+  pre-freshman phenomena
+  in the wake of the Special Olympics

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