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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
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THE WORLD
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1930–Tommie
Dora Barker (above), first dean of the Emory library school,
is the first woman to receive an honorary degree. |
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1931–Glenn
Memorial Church is completed and dedicated to Wilbur Fisk
Glenn, an Emory College alumnus and a prominent Methodist
minister. |
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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
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1936–On
the occasion of its centennial, the University publishes
its first major history, by Henry Morton Bulloch ’24C-’25T. |
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1937–Robert
W. Woodruff establishes a cancer clinic at Emory, his
first major gift to the University. |
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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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BONUS
CONTENT: The web version of “The Emory Century” contains
a significant amount of information not presented in the print
version.
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