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Volume
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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
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THE
EMORY CENTURY
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BRICKS
AND MORTAR
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DIVERSITY
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EMORY
TRADITIONS
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FOUNDING
SCHOOL
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GIANTS
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RESEARCH
& SCHOLARSHIP
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STUDENTS
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TURNING
POINTS
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EMORY
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THE WORLD
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1902–Emory
College Professor of Latin Andrew Sledd (above), son-in-law
of Bishop Warren A. Candler, publishes an article in the
Atlantic Monthly condemning the then-common practice of
lynching. In the ensuing furor, he is forced to resign but is
later appointed the first faculty member of the Candler School
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1902–The
Senior Society, DVS, is created. Doug Shipman ’95C
writes, “These young men created an organization that engaged
young leaders across the country, including Boisfeuillet
Jones, Henry Bowden, Goodrich White, Ben
Shapiro, Teresa Rivero, and many others. The organization
continues to thrive and encourage service to Emory and all of
society.” DVS opened its rolls to women in 1978.
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1904–Pierce
Science Hall, the first Emory College building to have steam,
gas, and running water, is built at Oxford. (It is torn down
in 1961 and replaced by the current Pierce Hall.)
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1905–Wesley
Memorial Hospital opens in an Atlanta antebellum home, and a training
school for nurses is established. The school provides the foundation
for Emory’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. |
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1908–A
quiet, self-assured freshman named Robert W. Woodruff enrolls
in Emory College but leaves before completing his first term.
He would later become Emory University’s most generous benefactor. |
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1909–In
the October issue of the Phoenix, the name “Dooley”
is first applied to the skeleton who became the “spirit”
of Emory in 1899. |
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