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...center of almost all extra-curricular activities. In the early years, students from North Carolina traditionally belonged to the Phi Society, while those from other states joined the Eu. Rivalry between these two organizations was as fierce as any inter-collegiate rivalries of today. Woodrow Wilson, who studied at Davidson during the year 1873-74, made his first public address from the porch of the Eu Club...
...Davidson is constantly looking towards the future. Under the guidance of Rev. John R. Cunningham, President of the college since 1941, the school has continued in its role as a servant institution of the church and the community, and has prospered as never before...
...spite of great progress on material levels, Davidson has clung to a brand of education that is almost classical in nature, a brand of education that shuns all trade school ideas and is primarily concerned with the development of a thinking, self-sufficient individual...
...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...