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2003 Issue 3May 4, 2003May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: WHAT’S IN A NAME?

When you're chatting about alma mater, do you find yourself explaining which Wesleyan? Ever wish you had attended Middletown College, Winchester College, or even Wultuna? All three are names that alumni of past generations, discontented with the name of "Wesleyan," suggested as an alternative. &nbs…

2003 Issue 2March 4, 2003May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: SUMMER SCHOOL CLOSED DUE TO SNOW

This summer, the Graduate Liberal Studies Program celebrates its 50th anniversary. The first program of its kind, it opened in the summer of 1953 as the Graduate Summer School for Teachers (GSS). Despite the later additi…

2002 Issue 4September 4, 2002May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: A CHAPEL FOR ALL SEASONS

When Wesleyan men came home from the Civil War, a new era of campus expansion began. College Row, then known as Brownstone Row, came into its own with the construction of three of its five prominent buildings. Joseph Cum…

2002 Issue 3July 4, 2002May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: THE DAVISON RARE BOOK ROOM AT FIFTY

George W. Davison was born March 25, 1872, in Rockville Centre on Long Island. Always a high achiever, he matriculated at Wesleyan at age 16. A classics major, he excelled in academics as well as athletics, and he was in…

2002 Issue 2April 4, 2002May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: THE SINGING COLLEGE

Long before our time, Wesleyan was sometimes known as "The Singing College." This sobriquet reflected the many musical pastimes of Wesleyan students, from the Speirachordeon Band of the late 1830s, to the informal colleg…

2001 Issue 3October 4, 2001May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: CROSS STREET A.M.E. ZION CHURCH AND WESLEYAN

Cross Street A.M.E. Zion Church has a rich and complex history as Middletown’s oldest African–American church, founded in the 1820s. An exhibition on view in Olin Library from June 24 through November 4 celebrates the ch…

2001 Issue 2July 4, 2001May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: ALL RAILROADS LEAD TO MIDDLETOWN

From the earliest days, Wesleyan graduates have been a far-flung crowd. The first six alumni of the Class of 1833—missionaries, teachers, and adventurers—scattered to New York, Massachusetts, South Carolina, and eventual…

2001 Issue 1January 4, 2001May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: “THE GOOD OF THE WORLD”

Wesleyan students’ deep involvement in the service of the Middletown community dates back to the earliest years of the university. The seeds of student service are rooted in Willbur Fisk’s Sept. 21, 1831, inaugural addre…