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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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  • ...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
    21 KB (3,483 words) - 21:52, February 3, 2009
  • ...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.
    6 KB (1,009 words) - 17:03, February 20, 2009
  • ...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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  • ...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]]
    5 KB (956 words) - 18:00, February 20, 2009
  • ...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
    5 KB (797 words) - 20:34, March 31, 2009
  • ...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
    2 KB (472 words) - 22:23, May 26, 2010
  • ...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
    2 KB (361 words) - 16:40, April 19, 2010
  • 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
    766 bytes (108 words) - 23:35, January 19, 2010
  • ...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.
    6 KB (905 words) - 17:05, February 20, 2009
  • 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
    6 KB (1,037 words) - 06:31, February 9, 2009
  • ...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
    9 KB (1,203 words) - 07:31, February 9, 2009
  • ..., 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.
    6 KB (1,024 words) - 17:50, February 9, 2009
  • ...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
    2 KB (287 words) - 17:04, February 20, 2009
  • ...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.
    23 KB (3,894 words) - 17:54, March 6, 2009
  • ...other major news, but of the day-to-day life on campus, of one’s fellow students, of classes and football games and parties.
    5 KB (755 words) - 22:50, March 12, 2009
  • ...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
    21 KB (3,430 words) - 22:24, September 21, 2009
  • ...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
    3 KB (526 words) - 16:36, September 22, 2009
  • ...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
    12 KB (2,048 words) - 21:05, September 22, 2009
  • In fall 2009, WSU history students fanned out around Martin Stadium before some home football games and gather
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