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Volume
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Number
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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
AND
THE WORLD
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1970–Protesting
the bombing of Cambodia, Emory students go on strike and
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1971–The
first African-American studies program at a major Southern
university is founded. Grace Towns Hamilton Professor Delores
P. Aldridge, Emory’s first full-time African-American
faculty member, coordinated the program. “With this creation,”
Aldridge writes, “Emory’s place in a broader historical
movement was insured, for it was the black studies movement in
the 1960s and 1970s which pioneered the broad changes in American
higher education with the demands that universities reflect the
universe by being inclusive in academic subject matter and constituencies.” |
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1975–Emory
acquires the Hartford seminary library. |
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1976–The
Bobby Jones Scholarships, which support an exchange of
students between Emory College and St. Andrews University in Scotland,
are established. |
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1979–Staff
Day is instituted. |
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1979–The
fiftieth anniversary of Emory’s Phi Beta Kappa
chapter is celebrated with a major symposium, the proceedings
of which are published in Daedalus. |
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1979–Emory’s
coat of arms is approved. |
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1979–The
renovated Houston Mill House opens to serve as a center
for the University’s social functions. |
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1979–Emory
receives $105 million from the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Fund.
At the time, this endowment, given by the University’s
longtime benefactors Robert W. Woodruff (above) and his
brother, George W. Woodruff, is the largest single
gift to an educational institution in the nation’s
history. Long Van Dinh ’96C writes, “It is
impossible to imagine where Emory is today without the Woodruffs’
largess. Emory’s rise to national prominence would not
have been as quick or assured.”
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