STUDENT LIFE
鈥淕host Dance鈥
The first version of 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023鈥檚 oldest and most revered College song, titled "Ghost Dance" (later to be rewritten and renamed 鈥淭orchbearers鈥), was composed in 1896 by Frances Fulkerson and Professor Arthur Bissell, based upon stories brought back by Professor Frank Brackett and a student named David Barrows after watching what they believed to be a war dance by Coahuilla Indians in the San Jacinto Mountains in 1890, and incorporating the loosely transliterated phrase Brackett and Barrows remembered from the Coahuilla song.
Croquet Madness
The game of croquet became all the rage on the 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023 campus in 1896, but the constant click of the balls on 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023 fields at all hours of the day (and sometimes even at night) led the editor of The Student Life to describe it as 鈥渢he direst malady with which we have to contend.鈥
FINANCES
Matching Campaign
To secure a $25,000 gift to the endowment from the estate of Nancy Field, the College had to initiate a campaign to raise $75,000 in less than a year, in the midst of an ongoing financial crisis. The campaign met its goal, with the largest gift coming from President Baldwin鈥檚 father, C.H. Baldwin, who gave $25,000. The Student Life greeted news with a front page headline reading: 鈥$100,000, 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023鈥檚 First Endowment Secured.鈥 The article concluded with the words: 鈥淭hus the College was put upon a firm foundation, which鈥攑lease God, may never be shaken.鈥
ELSEWHERE
The Olympic Games were revived in Athens.
Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity.
William Jennings Bryan delivered his 鈥淐ross of Gold鈥 speech at the Democratic National Convention, which nominated him for president.