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  • [[A Century of Greek Life at WSU|'''A Century of Greek Life''']] - A brief history of fraternities and sororities at WSU <br><br> ...on College Hill]]''' - Marge Muir remembers Greek life and being a kid on campus in the 30s and 40s.
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  • ...d them with rotten cabbages that were still lying in the icy fields of the campus—the first instance of "unrest" at this institution. George Lilley seemed ...ot always publicized. President Holland no longer actively participated in campus activities as he had done as a young bachelor.
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  • <br>During a quiet weekend last July, a crew came to campus to steal away one of the University’s oldest landmarks--the Ferry Hall cu ...ns Hall, the residence dedicated for women, went up on the opposite end of campus.
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  • ...president of Washington State Agricultural College, 59 students arrived on campus to find one building, the "Crib," perched on top of College Hill.<br> ...ice of a loaf of bread: $.03<br>Major challenges: Just about everything<br>Life after WSU: Later served as president of Dakota State University.<br>1892 Ag
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  • ...ents at Washington State University wanted a voice that could reach beyond campus. They wanted an outlet that wasn’t commercial, one that didn’t play Bil ...important,” he says. “It was a very big part of the students’ social life, sort of their intellectual lives out of class.”
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  • ...her husband Edward’s variety test plots on Washington State College’s campus in 1912.]]By Hannelore Sudermann ...steamer trunk which holds nearly a century of private papers detailing the life of a woman whose story is not only threaded through the University’s, but
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  • ...ientific breakthroughs and other major news, but of the day-to-day life on campus, of one’s fellow students, of classes and football games and parties. ...ck in with President Holland. Being an entrepreneurial Coug, upon reaching campus he marched right up to the president’s office. And President Holland prom
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  • ...greek.wsu.edu/GreekCentennial/greek.htm Center for Fraternity and Sorority Life]&nbsp;'' ...erry Hall opened in 1892, students sought accommodation in the houses near campus—on College Hill. Spare rooms were rented and boarding houses became gathe
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  • ...o become pledges. Fraternity members were on hand to help us go to our new campus homes. It's all somewhat of a blur now through the excitement of the time a Sorority members were not allowed to wear casual clothes to campus. Even in the blinding snow, no slacks were allowed! On Saturdays and Sunday
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  • ...http://www.wsu.edu/hdrl/Greek/greek.htm Center for Fraternity and Sorority Life]''[http://www.wsu.edu/hdrl/Greek/greek.htm ] ...on the Facility and Advisory Boards, observing what was happening to Greek life and their housing has been a continuing concern. The changes have been inte
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  • ...e home football games and gathered stories from Cougar alumni about campus life. We call our project "for the record..." -- part of Our Story's informal, s
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  • Without a doubt the best years of my life so far were spent at Washington State University – 11 semesters as a stud ...I remember one of my peers intended to write about students who "live" on campus. Instead the verb read "love."
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  • Washington State football stood high in my life from the time I was a kid growing up in Pullman. It all started when Dad to There was an alley and a six-car garage behind our house on Campus Avenue. Dad kept his portable seed wheat cleaning equipment and Model A For
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  • ...te College-- sophistication, an education, and a way out of a hardscrabble life. He found it all in Ida Lou Anderson '24. ...nced double curvature, badly twisting her torso. Her family feared for her life.
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  • ...dawn the next morning, he began a two-day drive to the University of Texas campus in Austin to stand in a mass of unruly football fans and wave the Washingto ...to by Hannelore Sudermann]]Look at Al Sorensen, ('89 Soc. Sci.), who has a life-sized concrete cougar peering from a flower bed in front of his Hall Drive
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  • ...ns. Sixty percent of their cheese sells between October and Christmas. The campus store accounts for 20 to 25 percent of revenue. Most sales are by mail. The Industry preference for consistency and shelf life over flavor and variety has provided opportunity.
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  • ...Busch, Patty Wixon, and Sally Kilpatrick dedicated a bench on the Pullman campus to honor their mother (seated) after she died. The inscription reads, “H. ...e had is because of our mother . . . a guiding light in all aspects of her life. We are so indebted to her.”<br>
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  • Throughout his life, the black sociologist has tried to bridge the gap between the races. As mu ...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 his college
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  • In the 1970s, when rumors were circulating on the Washington State University campus that historic Stevens Hall was to be razed, Friel spoke out against the ide ...e National Register of Historic Places. "That is our [women's] heritage on campus," she said at the time. "If you begin to tear down your heritage, you have
    12 KB (1,942 words) - 16:41, April 24, 2009
  • ...of the college was disturbed by the appearance of a ghostly form upon the campus for several successive nights. It always appeared at about the same hour of ...face the ghost. Armed with a loaded revolver, the steward descended to the campus. The onlookers could not see him as he approached the one figure which rema
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