Volume
75
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
THE
EMORY CENTURY
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BRICKS
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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
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EMORY
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THE WORLD
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1970Protesting
the bombing of Cambodia, Emory students go on strike and
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1971The
first African-American studies program at a major Southern
university is founded. Grace Towns Hamilton Professor Delores
P. Aldridge, Emorys first full-time African-American
faculty member, coordinated the program. With this creation,
Aldridge writes, Emorys 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
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1975Emory
acquires the Hartford seminary library. |
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1976The
Bobby Jones Scholarships, which support an exchange of
students between Emory College and St. Andrews University in Scotland,
are established. |
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1979Staff
Day is instituted. |
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1979The
fiftieth anniversary of Emorys Phi Beta Kappa
chapter is celebrated with a major symposium, the proceedings
of which are published in Daedalus. |
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1979Emorys
coat of arms is approved. |
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1979The
renovated Houston Mill House opens to serve as a center
for the Universitys social functions. |
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1979Emory
receives $105 million from the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Fund.
At the time, this endowment, given by the Universitys
longtime benefactors Robert W. Woodruff (above) and his
brother, George W. Woodruff, is the largest single
gift to an educational institution in the nations
history. Long Van Dinh 96C writes, It is
impossible to imagine where Emory is today without the Woodruffs
largess. Emorys rise to national prominence would not
have been as quick or assured.
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