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Category 2009 Issue 2Posted on June 20, 2009May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: WESLEYAN IN THE DEPRESSION

The Great Depression brings a series of iconic images to mind. There’s the unemployment line, the bread line, the line to get money out of the bank before it goes bust. There’s the Dust Bowl and Dorothea Lange’s migrant mother photograph. We think of Black Tuesday, the New Deal, and the Works Progre…
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Category 2008 Issue 4Posted on December 20, 2008May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: THE ONCE AND FUTURE PRESIDENT

One small aspect of Barack Obama’s rise to the White House is actually not groundbreaking: he is far from the first future president to find his way to Wesleyan. Middletown has played host to four sitting presidents and …
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Category 2008 Issue 3Posted on September 20, 2008May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND WESLEYAN FREEDOM RIDERS

Most Wesleyan alumni are well aware of the visits of Martin Luther King Jr. to Wesleyan in the 1960s. Clearly the most famous and charismatic Civil Rights Movement figure, Martin Luther King profoundly affected the Wesle…
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Category 2008 Issue 3Posted on September 20, 2008April 28, 2014

Lavender and Ministers

Interest in athletics grew slowly at American colleges and universities, waxing in a particular sport and then waning. In the 19th century, struggling athletes at Wesleyan slogged through a field that often resembled a m…
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Category 2008 Issue 1Posted on January 20, 2008May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: TIME FOR A BREAK!

When you spend your life in a university community, the academic calendar can seem as inevitable as the change of seasons in New England. The new year starts in September, close to Labor Day. Frosh show up early for orie…
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Category 2007 Issue 4Posted on December 20, 2007May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: INAUGURATING A WESLEYAN PRESIDENT

Few academic ceremonies are more steeped in tradition than the inauguration of a new university president. Naturally, Wesleyan’s 16 inaugurations have varied in detail, but certain key elements recur: an academic process…
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Category 2007 Issue 3Posted on September 20, 2007May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL STREET IN AMERICA

That would be our own High Street, of course, and the luminary who made the statement would be Charles Dickens. At least that’s the story according to a 1942 article about the DKE House by Lucy Colton Wells. Mrs. Wells r…
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Category 2007 Issue 2Posted on June 20, 2007May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: UNCLE SAM WANTS YOU!

 From the Civil War to Vietnam and beyond, Wesleyan students and alumni have been called upon—by conscience, patriotic fervor, conscription, or some combination thereof —to enlist and fight. The causes and the military t…
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Category 2007 Issue 1Posted on January 20, 2007May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: LIONS, AND TIGERS, AND BEARS… OH MY!

From 1871 to 1957, the top two floors of Judd Hall housed Wesleyan’s natural history museum. Named for Orange Judd, Class of 1847, a prominent agricultural editor and publisher, as well as a generous donor, the brownston…
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Category 2006 Issue 4Posted on December 20, 2006May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: KEEPING WESLEYAN HISTORY ALIVE

When Olin Library opened in 1928, one of its innovations was the “Wesleyan Room.” As its name suggests, the Wesleyan Room housed the university’s fledgling archives. Located on the west side of the library’s second floor…
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