Volume 75
Number 4


The Lord of Misrule

Emory Medalists

Enigma: The Haunting of Uppergate House

The Emory Century

Wonderful Woodruffs
The Ubiquitous Woodruff
Living up to the Legacy
The Return of the
Bright Brigade

 

 

 

 

THE EMORY CENTURY
BRICKS AND MORTAR
DIVERSITY
EMORY TRADITIONS
FOUNDING SCHOOL
GIANTS
RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP
STUDENTS
TURNING POINTS
EMORY AND
THE WORLD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
 
 
 
1930Tommie Dora Barker (above), first dean of the Emory library school, is the first woman to receive an honorary degree.
 
  1931Glenn Memorial Church is completed and dedicated to Wilbur Fisk Glenn, an Emory College alumnus and a prominent Methodist minister.
 
  1931–Edwin R. Embree, president of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, visits Emory and proposes the formation of a university center in Atlanta. The idea takes hold, and today the University and twelve other institutions of higher learning in the state are linked by an inter-library loan system, and their students are allowed to register for courses at other member institutions.
 
 
 
  1936–On the occasion of its centennial, the University publishes its first major history, by Henry Morton Bulloch ’24C-’25T.
 
  1937Robert W. Woodruff establishes a cancer clinic at Emory, his first major gift to the University.
 
  1937–The Haygood-Hopkins Memorial Gate, the University’s “front door,” is erected. It is a gift from alumnus and trustee Linton B. Robeson.
 
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