Davidson College - Students - Social Life and Customs
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Edward Benton Hale Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: DC0237s
Scope and Contents
As a student, Hale kept an ongoing scrapbook of his college memories. The vast majority of the scrapbook contains photographs of student life during the early 1900's. Hale also kept detailed accounts of various athletic events -- i.e., the scrapbook contains the scores of all basketball, track, and football games from 1917. Hale also cut out photographs of the Davidson College football players and included the players' weights, nicknames, and football positions alongside the photographs. In...
Dates:
1916 - 1919
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
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Edward Benton Hale Scrapbook
Thomas Thweatt, Jones Collection
Collection
Identifier: DC0243s
Scope and Contents
The file folder titled "Brochures" contains program brochures from the Carolina Theater, the School of Music of the Flora Macdonald College in Red Springs, N.C., an essay defending America's involvement in wars, and the Junior Speaking brochure from 1924. The file folder marked "Correspondence" contains a letter providing information on the college class ring; a letter from W.E. Bowman, Registrar for the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1928; a letter from a girl accepting an...
Dates:
1924 - 1927
William Henry Ruffner Campbell Collection
Collection
Identifier: DC0249s
Scope and Contents
This scrapbook contains a list of the college yells from 1910, a description of Campbell's first impressions as a freshman at Davidson College, a description of his freshman room, a listing of some of the college songs, a description of Campbell's first year of vacation, a description of the debates of the Philanthropic Society in which Campbell participated, a listing of members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and a listing of student expenses from 1908 and 1909. There also are three loose leaf papers...
Dates:
1909 - 1910