Word: davidson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Davidson's presumptuous Wildcats took the field in brilliant crimson-and-white uniforms and promptly shook the complacency out of the 6,500 spectators at the Stadium. Rated five-touchdown underdogs, the Southern eleven flashed a wide-open offensive game that left the startled Crimson six points behind at half-time and conjured memories of the Praying Colonels of Centre College, who upset a powerful 1921 Harvard eleven...
...Davidson is one of the few schools where a knowledge of Greek or Latin is still a pre-requisite for the Bachelor of Arts degree (Harvard abolished this requirement with the class of 1950). Davidson men are required to take two years of Bible study, two years of English, a year of mathematics, a year of a laboratory science, a year of history, and two years of a foreign language. By requiring these courses, the college hopes to provide each student with a common core of knowledge regardless of his field of concentration...
Over half of Davidson's graduates enter some type of graduate school. Approximately 25 per cent of the student body are pre-medical students. Nine Rhodes scholars have been chosen from the ranks of Davidson...
These figures furnish sufficient proof that the Davidson formula--a liberal arts curriculum coupled with a highly restricted campus life--succeeds in producing the type of man that the founders of the college desired, a man who will bring a disciplined mind and body to bear on the many problems facing an expanding South.The Chambers building (above) is the focal point of Davidson life. Administrative offices, a large auditorium, and various classrooms and laboratories are contained in the structure, built...
Groundkeepers claim the letters were probably etched out with the use of gasoline. They estimate that the culprits broke into the Stadium around 3 or 4 a.m. Wednesday. But no trace of the etched letters will be visible at today's Davidson contest. Caretakers have already worked over seared patches of grass to obliterate any trace of the damage...