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  ...-McAllister Hall, and have remained good friends.]] <br>This fall, history students fanned out around Martin Stadium before some home football games and record ...omics]]''' <br>Dr. Robert Fearn recalls how Monopoly entertained economics students in the 1950s.
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• WSU presidents I have known (or known of)
  ...ollege of Washington 1890-1925'', by E.O. Bryan, Alumni and the Associated Students, 1928, and ''Creating the People’s University: Washington State Universit ...umber of students who started that first day in 1892—maybe there were 29 students who were actually at collegiate level?) Instruction began in agriculture, m
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• Who Moved My Cupola?
  ...new Ferry Hall was built in the same spot. This time, it housed about 100 students on four floors. The structure, designed by G. W. Bullard, was brick and bui ...formed there, starting as a club, and then becoming a “house” when the students moved into a rented home across campus.
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• Notes of WSC 1940
  ...beautiful, with lawns and few buildings. There were perhaps 4,000 to 5,000 students and the town’s populations was even less. ...o by Ken Wise.]]Few students had cars. We came by train or bus to Pullman. Students did not wear jeans to class, and women wore dresses back then. Many men wor
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• Bernard Lagat comes home
  ...re at places like Pete’s and Denny’s. “You have to remember, we were students,” he says.&nbsp;[[Image:With miika and flag.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
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• Floods Of 1948
  ...n January 7th, the Creek's waters rose up and threatened the camp, but 500 students and townspeople gathered to build a dike consisting of 20,000 sandbags (act ...a full foot deeper than January's flood. Extensive work by the university students and the Pullman townspeople resulted in an even larger dike, and once again
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• ANOTHER Buck Bailey Story
  ...ngry or disgusted he would kick the bats or the water bucket. At Idaho the students put sand in the bucket. OUCH! If he didn't get a good call, he would stomp
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• Learning Economics
  ...50s, our social life was limited largely to activities with other graduate students in economics and their wives, a small, bright, and cohesive group. Since we
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• This is WSC - narrated by Edward R. Murrow
  This film shows campus and student activities in 1952, from engineering students to football games to housing. Edward R. Murrow narrates the tour around WSC
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• Ferdinand's turns 60
  ...t professor L. J. Manus will be in charge, assisted by dairy manufacturing students. All products served will be made in the department, and prices will be com ...workers, and supports one faculty member position and two or more graduate students in WSU’s food science department.
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• Their place in history
  One day in 1948 four Washington State College students tugged on their white rubber swim caps, adjusted their nose plugs, and plun Her curiosity moved beyond what these students did for exercise to the logistics of doing it. “I can’t imagine partici
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• The Presidents
  ...was named the first president of Washington State Agricultural College, 59 students arrived on campus to find one building, the "Crib," perched on top of Colle ...o Alabama in Rose Bowl<br>1931-33 Great Depression<br>1936 More than 2,500 students march to demand “abolition of Ultra-conservative, dictatorial Administrat
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• Happy 25th, KZUU!
  ..., a time of flared pants and patchwork shirts, a small group of determined students at Washington State University wanted a voice that could reach beyond campu ...ic. And it was transmitted via cable to just a few dorms. It also had more students vying for DJ spots than it could handle.
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• How I Make Both Ends Meet
  ...ington State College president E.O. Holland organized an essay contest for students titled “How I Economized Last Semester.” Peter E. Kragt, a freshman fro
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• The Love Letters
  ...ere she lived with an older German woman and studied with just eight other students. Bright and hardworking, Xerpha was the valedictorian. ...y’s herbarium, a library of dried plants collected and identified to aid students and scientists in their research.
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• Cougar Memory
  ...other major news, but of the day-to-day life on campus, of one’s fellow students, of classes and football games and parties.
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• A Century of Greek Life at WSU
  ...ferent from what their parents knew. Even after Ferry Hall opened in 1892, students sought accommodation in the houses near campus—on College Hill. Spare roo ...a talk. At a time when other universities observed a strict separation of students and professors, here they went on wagon rides together. How much the isolat
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• Memories of Rush 1963
  ...busy between classes....coke dates, bridge games, and fast food lured the students away from the library. Pledges were to remain in the library between classe
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• Growing Up on College Hill
  ...rt of our lives as children was just being around and watching the college students at work and play. As children we felt very safe in their neighborhood. ...any arrived with their trunks on the trains from Seattle and Spokane. When students came or left it was often within hours of each other. You could feel the ch
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• For the record...video: Gina and Sue '78
  In fall 2009, WSU history students fanned out around Martin Stadium before some home football games and gather
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• My best and toughest journalism professors at WSU
  ...ings to an automatic F. I remember one of my peers intended to write about students who "live" on campus. Instead the verb read "love." ...'s legacy was helping create a summer internship program for communication students. Some of those connections led to job offers.
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• Memories of Football at WSC
  ...was a docile old guy and didn't care much whether he was bothered or not. Students from Idaho one time before the big Saturday afternoon rivalry managed to sn
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• Vanished places: Silver Lake and the Tanglewood
  ...ted what must have been a lovely retreat. According to William Stimson, if students wished to meet secretly for a little “fussing” or kissing, they chose S
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• When Pullman was a Ski Town
  ...managed to get two of the Cougars' skiers declared ineligible as transfer students, and Denver won.
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• Where Have You Gone, Edward R. Murrow?
  ...n faculty in 1967 and retired in 2002. He taught thousands of broadcasting students, using Murrow as the touchstone example for media credibility and ethics.''
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• Compensation for a Difficult Life
  ...ments. She could make her audience forget as well, recalled classmates and students. Thanks to Reed, Anderson became a regular of the theater, playing characte ...da_inline.jpg|thumb|right|300px|da Lou Anderson '24 leads a line of hungry students at a 1924 campus event. Photo by Myron Huckle '27, courtesy WSU Manuscripts
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• How Coug Are You?
  ...identify themselves with material goods, Arthur is fascinated with the way students are identifying with the school. With the help of her AMDT students, she set out to capture the components of student culture and the connectio
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• Powwow turns 30
  ...n Guillory, a graduate student and retention counselor for Native American students. Each tribe has its own rich and distinct culture, say organizers, and the
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• Getting a feel for Archaeology, uncovering Washginton's History
  ...says Hruska, one of more than a dozen WSU and Portland State University students enrolled in a seven-week archaeology field school at Fort Vancouver Nationa ...for the first time since the 1800s, entirely uncovered. That’s where the students came in.
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• The End of an Era
  ...and late-night illnesses were among the thousands of maladies that brought students through the doors of Pullman’s community hospital during its 57 years on ...elp attract faculty, the administrators touted it in their efforts to draw students.
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• How Cougar Gold made the world a better place
  ...managed by the WSU student dairy club, CUDS (Cooperative University Dairy Students). In all, the Creamery produced last year 375,000 pounds of cheese, in 200, ...man Nutrition, two research graduate assistants, and part-time work for 50 students. Many people working in the dairy and cheese industry today got their chees
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• Maughan Brothers: grateful for a Mother's Influence
  ...e professions. “He had the highest standards for and expectations of his students,” Lowell says, citing zoologist Charles McNeill as another exacting profe
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• WSU Hall of Fame adds 5 who excelled
  Sheridan wanted her students to have a positive experience. She believed sports should be fun, that spor
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• Harrison National Public Radio pioneer
  ...ublic broadcasting. Moreover, he exerted a positive influence on scores of students pursuing careers in broadcast journalism. ...KWSU Radio were still blended together. He remembers Harrison listening to students auditioning for announcing positions. He would deliberately introduce words
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• Bhatia built Honors, International Programs
  ...ecause he did it very well. He was very personable. He was the leader. The students were devoted to him." "The Honors curriculum gives students an opportunity to look at knowledge and civilization in the broadest percep
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• Poor farm kid makes good
  ...kane Indian, a liberal, and a writer, he did not fit the prevalent mold of students attending WSU in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Regardless, on October 10, ...eipt of this award will serve as an example for minority students and poor students from rural areas to follow in his footsteps at WSU.
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• On Call: Student firefighters protect their campus
  ...students are a valuable asset," Wilkins says. "They are here as dedicated students, but also provide service 24/7 on a shift basis for the WSU Fire Department ...udent firemen at Washington State College date back to 1922-23, "when nine students manned the pumps." In the early '20s they lived in a metal shed attached to
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• Blackwell Makes His Mark: Noted Sociologist Receives WSU's Highest Honor
  ...ainst employment discrimination in local department stores, and helped six students enroll at SJSU on tuition waivers after being expelled from Alabama State U When he enrolled at Washington State in 1955, there were only 15 black students on campus. Culture shock? "No," he says. There were even fewer blacks in hi
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• One Hot Link
  ...land/masc/finders/barkhuff.htm William Delbert Barkhuff], one of the first students to enroll at WSU; and [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xritchey.htm ...ate Education at Washington State University"] honors the pioneering women students who, "through their determination and resolve to fulfill their own educatio
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• A titan's tale
  ...rmy-style obstacle courses at Lincoln High School and began redefining the students' epithets for him. ...rstand. He didn't like not understanding. So he drove his athletes and his students ever harder. As if their lives depended on it.
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• Catherine Mathews Friel is thankful for life in a small college town
  ...ned a reputation for the volume of written assignments she required of her students. "Some of their parents loved me, some hated me," she says. ...tells of being stopped on the street a few years ago by one of her former students, then attending Washington State. "Mrs. Friel, I used to curse you every da
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• Ghostly meetings with "E.A."
  ...or Mr. Uthmann’s sanity and some of [[Bryan Rocks|his story]]. My fellow students and I in that era had many encounters with a benign presence that we fondly
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• Campus Legends and Ghost Stories
  ...dances, teas and story readings. The story readings were popular with many students and it was a tradition for Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat,” to be r
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• The Victory Team - December 1926 Alumnus magazine
  ...at they could win. And, what is of equal importance, he has the respect of students, alumni, and friends of the “College of the State” by his clean and upr
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• The Pakistan Connection
  ...on to Pakistani students in the area of water-resources development; these students also took courses at WSU. ...al marketing, and other areas of study. Members of the party trained local students and faculty to carry on the work of a strengthened curriculum and research
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• Washington State University fight song
  ....wsu.edu Washington State University]. The song was written in 1919 by WSU students Melcher and Sayles as a class project.
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• My Recollections of Sam Mompongo
  ...and my French was too old. We delivered them to the dorm for International students. ...ncluding Samuel Mompongo and Robert Kwetwenda. We are happy that these two students from our Congo School with their Nigerian friend could feel enough at home
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• WSU Meats Lab New and Unique - HillTopics, 1970
  ...s laboratory is a much needed facility as all department of animal science students and many food science majors will receive training there.”
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• Thirty-two dollars for tuition and a top-notch education
  I wouldn’t kid you that the thirty-two-odd covered everything. For us music students majoring in an instrument (French horn) there was a $2.75 weekly fee for le
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• Carlton Lewis: WSU's first African American student body president
  ...and played a vital role in easing tensions between the administration and students. Read more about his time at WSU below. ...ng apathetic" and also hoped to "bridge the gap between administrators and students."
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• Pharmacy grew drug plants, considered selling them
  ...at time, and it was common for colleges of pharmacy to maintain gardens so students might become familiar with plant identities, collection, drying and storage
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• Video: Tobogganing in the Twenties
  ...1928-1929 by Dr. J.L. Gilleland of Pullman, WA, and his family. This shows students tobogganing down the slop from what is now the CUB or the IT Building down
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• Spokane's Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak in 1914
  ...ulation and sanitation efforts were Washington State University veterinary students and faculty who took a train from Pullman to Spokane, after permission was
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• A Century Back: Washington State College in 1912
  The student government, called the Students’ Assembly, was led by President C.J. Cooil. His vice presidents were Edna Civil Engineering was led by Omar Waller, with 33 students in the Civil Engineers Society.
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• Fifty Years Back: Washington State University in 1962
  ...1961. The plant sciences building was designed primarily for research, but students in Agronomy, Agriculture, Horticulture, Mathematics, and Military also used Chemistry students and researchers had new laboratory facilities as the $2.5 million addition
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• Observatory To Be Ready Soon, 1952
  ...To some extent, it will be used for minor research programs by graduate students in astronomy and in the allied fields of mathematics, physics, and chemistr ...s semester. The first, Descriptive Astronomy, is a class that grew from 33 students to 140 in a single semester. With the completion of the new observatory, of
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• Oral history: Sue Durrant
  ...s it was predominantly men, there were very few uh, my father’s graduate students were always primarily men, uh, occasionally he would have a woman, but agai ...because I was in the education format. Education was a big draw for women students who went to college.
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• Oral history: Leonard Kirschner
  ...thesis. And at the end of that year, now this is very typical of graduate students; I had a bachelor’s and a master’s degree and this was sort of being in ...t here, you got here in ’53, what was your impression of the campus, the students, the administration; it was much smaller then
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• Oral history: Herb Nakata
  ...her close-by areas donated books and just came by the truckload and so the students had books and they put together a, uh, a school system and it was only abou ...told me no, you don’t, that’s the poorest units on campus where mostly students lived
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• Oral history: David Seamans
  ...- Pretty much, yeah, and well at that time, as I remember there were 5500 students here, which is roughly a third or quarter of what they have now, but Dr. Fr '''DS''' - Yeah, there was a, that of course nowadays the graduate students dorm is, McEachern Hall
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• Oral history: Norman Whittlesey
  ...my class, only 4 in my sister’s class who was 2 years behind me, but 34 students in 4 grades of high school, so that was my academic career up through high ...wore ties and coats every day, um, at least the men did, uh, women, girls, students wore dresses, they didn’t wear slacks or shorts, um, men didn’t wear je
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• Bryan Hall History
  ...al visits as well. In 1920, former President William H. Taft spoke to the students and faculty in Bryan Hall’s auditorium. Much of his speech can be found
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• Holland and Terrell Libraries History
  ...cost $2,600,000 and was designed to house 1,500,000 volumes and seat 2,200 students at one time.
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• Stevens Hall History
  Some students claim that it is haunted by a girl who was murdered in the building during
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• Compton Union Building History
  Image:Cub-2-1948.gif|Students petitioning for a new union building in 1948. Photo courtesy WSU Manuscript
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• Student Recreation Center
  ...person spa. Over 3,000 students use the facility each day and over 80% of students access the facility each semester. Memberships to the SRC are included in students’ full time tuition. A fun fact about the SRC is that the pool area is sh
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• Carpenter Hall History
  ...-equipped schools of architecture in the country. Upper level architecture students have their own workstations supplied with specialized software, and vital r
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• Honors Hall History
  ...ollege to include a 117-student, 67-room dormitory area for Honors Program students. White Hall was renamed Honors Hall in fall semester 2001. ...esidence hall primarily to the Honors College; however, non-Honors College students do reside within its walls as well.
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• Wilmer-Davis Hall History
  ...ilding was named for regents A.W. Davis and F.J. Wilmer. Wilmer houses 95 students and Davis 100. The Wilmer-Davis residential complex was built at the same
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• WSU in 1963
  A number of programs prepared students for careers in agriculture, ranging from forestry to economics and plant pa ...Wells surveying.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Camp F.W. Wells for civil engineering students. The camp, located near Naches on White Pass, gave the young engineers a ch
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