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Historical Row

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 technology have changed dramatically over the past nearly 150 years, but many of …
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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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Category 2006 Issue 3Posted on September 20, 2006May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: “THE FIRST 100 YEARS ARE THE HARDEST…”

This sage tidbit was uttered by Dartmouth President Ernest M. Hopkins during his speech at Wesleyan’s Centennial Celebration in October 1931. Hopkins was among the leaders of 38 colleges and universities who attended the…
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Category 2006 Issue 1Posted on January 20, 2006May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: WESLEYAN’S ANNIVERSARIES

Wesleyan turns 175 in 2006. The official celebration will begin at Reunion and Commencement 2006.   Institutional birthdays often occur in 25-year intervals. A quick look at the history of Wesleyan's anniversary c…
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Category 2005 Issue 4Posted on December 20, 2005May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: CAME HELL AND HIGH WATER

More than 65 years ago, on September 21, 1938, Alma Mater and Mother Nature struggled for dominance. Alma Mater was battered and bruised, but not destroyed. The headline in a special issue of the Hartford Courant summed …
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Category 2005 Issue 3Posted on September 20, 2005May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: DOC FAUVER’S LEGACY

Wesleyan's former playground, Fauver Field, bears the name of Doctor Edgar Fauver, a central figure in the physical welfare of an earlier generation of Wesleyan men. Perhaps best known to today's students and more recent…
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Category 2005 Issue 2Posted on June 20, 2005May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: EINSTEIN IN THE ARCHIVES

In 1929, Wesleyan became the first American university to own an Albert Einstein manuscript. Olin Library was barely a year old, and its "treasure room" was still relatively empty. What better gift for the splendid new l…
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Category 2005 Issue 1Posted on January 20, 2005May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: KEEPING SECRETS

Whether your tastes run to bestsellers such as The Da Vinci Code and The Rule of Four or you prefer the New York Times' coverage of the Presidential inauguration, you probably have been reading recently about secret soci…
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Category 2004 Issue 4Posted on December 20, 2004May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: POLITICS AS USUAL: THE ORIGINS OF STUDENT POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS

Wesleyan students' long tradition of social activism is well known and well documented. From the missionary zeal of the earliest students to the more recent "Justice for Janitors" movement (to name just two of the many, …
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