Origin Stories

By Sarah Church Baldwin
In which Brandeis is revealed to be much greater than the sum of its parts.

By Jarret Bencks
Seventeen years before the Woolworth lunch counter sit-ins, Pauli Murray helped organize a sit-in that desegregated a restaurant in Washington, DC.

This exhibit displays furniture and objects from the home of Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis. It was there, in Chatham, Massachusetts, that Justice Brandeis spent summers with his beloved wife, their daughters, and their grandchildren.

By Diana Siegel ’52
A pioneer alumna recalls life on Brandeis’ brand new campus.

By Ted Reinstein ’85, GSAS MFA’87
The Judges strike a well-reasoned balance between athletics and academics.