Feel the spirit of Yale University on and off the campus

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Feel the spirit of Yale University on and off the campus.

Lines start forming early outside Frank Pepe's in Little Italy near New Haven's Wooster Square, where locals are known to stand in line for more than an hour just to get inside to order.

Alexander Calder's "Gallows and Lollipops" is a landmark at the Hewitt University Quadrangle/ Beinecke Plaza.

The Yale campus is full of the Collegiate Gothic style, evocative of England's much-older Oxford and Cambridge, and includes fanciful carving. This character peeps over a doorway to the university's Davenport College.

Jeff Lassen, a fourth-generation family member at Louis' Lunch, serves up one of the tiny restaurant's famous hamburger sandwiches. The restaurant created its iconic sandwich in 1900.

Louis Kahn's last museum, the Yale Center for British Art, is famous for two bright courts, lit by skylights, at the core of the building. A gift of Paul Mellon (Yale 1929), the museum was completed after the architect's death.

The Great Hall of Dinosaurs is one of the most popular spots in the Peabody Museum. The mural, "The Age of Reptiles," is Rudolph Zallinger's Pulitzer Prize-winning view of animal and plant evolution.

Everyone looks for the ferocious dinosaur high atop its monolith outside the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Handsome Dan II, Yale's mascot from 1933-37, is immortalized behind glass at the visitor center because Yale was the first college to have a mascot. The original Handsome Dan, purchased as a grimy puppy from a blacksmith's shop in 1889, trotted alongside his freshman owner at football and baseball games.

When it was completed in 1921, Harkness Tower was the tallest freestanding tower in the U.S. Its student-run carillon can be heard playing such hits "Rubber Ducky" or "Stairway to Heaven" in the afternoon.

Students collide in a fast-paced game of Frisbee on Yale's Old Campus lawn.

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Lines start forming early outside Frank Pepe's in Little Italy near New Haven's Wooster Square, where locals are known to stand in line for more than an hour just to get inside to order.

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