Historical Row

[caption id="attachment_1798" align="alignleft" width="360"] Radio station WES Operations Manager Bob Stuart ’42 in a photograph from the 1940 Olla Podrida. Photo: Special Collections & Archives.[/caption] When soph…

During the night of March 1, 1906, North College went up in flames. “No more will the sound of the paddle reverberate through the halls of Old N.C.,” wrote freshman Eric McCoy North, class of 1909, to his mother thr…

As a response to the campus furor, Winslow wrote a letter to the Argus editor in a partial Q. and A. format, with such questions as these:   “Q. Was it a hoax? A. No. “Q. Is Cage a serious artist? A. Yes. “Q. Ho…

Who remembers Foss House? And what about the Art Lab? Appropriately located on Foss Hill, Foss House was once the home of Archibald Foss, Class of 1852, professor of Latin and Hebrew and brother of Wesleyan President Cyr…

Did you ever wonder what Wesleyan was like more than 140 years ago? Find yourself daydreaming about what students of the time thought of the brand new buildings on College Row or the fledgling sport of “base ball”? Perha…

Wesleyan graduates have a long tradition of founding educational institutions. Some were established to help right social wrongs. The Colored Normal School in Richmond, Va., the first public high school for African Ameri…

Did you know that Wesleyan owns one of the country’s most complete collections of William Butler Yeats? Also in Special Collections & Archives in Olin Library, you’ll find more than 30 different editions of Walt Whit…

The new College of the Environment stands firmly on the foundation of nearly 180 years of science at Wesleyan. From its beginning in 1831, the natural sciences have been a key part of the University’s curriculum. Early s…