For the last few weeks, we’ve been featuring financial topics to go along with coverage of the Davidson Trust in the Spring 2009 Davidson Journal. (If you don’t get the Journal, you can read some stories online). This week’s blog focuses on some sacrifices that early faculty made in support of the college.
Colleges are tolerable extravagant places
Student letters asking for money have become a great source of jokes, but it wasn’t always a laughing matter for strapped students.
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Money, Money: Student Expenses through the years
One hundred years ago, Davidson College students paid $60 for a year’s tuition. How have things changed since then?
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April Fools! 1930s Davidson Giggles
For April Fool’s Day, we have a selection of 1930s Davidson student cartoons for you to enjoy!
These cartoons came from the 1930s issues of two student publications: The Yowl and Scripts’n’Pranks. Learn about them at our Davidson College Encyclopedia.
-Tammy Ivins, Archives Fellow
Digital Wanderings
No April Fool’s here – there are 2 Around the D entries for today.
We’re having great fun finding topics and sharing our digital collections and now we’d like to share some fun examples from other colleges. This time we’re featuring projects at Presbyterian College and East Carolina University.
To the Tourney!
This week the Davidson College Archives is honoring the Davidson’s College Bowl Team, which will be attending the Intercollegiate Championship Tournament in Dallas April 3-4, 2009.
The Carolina Inn: A View of Change
The Carolina Inn is currently the home for the Center Interdisciplinary Studies . It is also one of four structures remaining from the early days of the town.
While we are living, we are alive
The first newspaper for the town of Davidson used the motto Dum vivimus, vivamus (translation While we are living, we are alive). The editor took a lively interest in town affairs. A typical headline from the June 8, 1883 issue reads, “Town Awakes from its Rip Van Winkle Sleep, and the Commissioners Starts the Ball Rolling by Various Improvements–Street Lamps, Rock and a Guard House.”
March Madness & Mad, Mad Basketball Uniforms
Nowadays our basketball players strut their stuff in baggy shorts, but basketball uniforms didn’t always look that way. Check out this slide show of Davidson College basketball uniforms through time.
– Sarah Adams and Tammy Ivins
Library Transitions
The Davidson College Library has undergone several transitions as it has grown along with the College, and most of those transitions have involved students.