“Hey Hey, it’s the First of May…….”
04/28/2023
…. So begins a rhyme my mother remembered from her college days in the mid-1950s. “…outdoor (fill in the blank) is now okay!”
- May Day
- Washington College Traditions
- Archives
Washington's Dispatches
1788 Dedication of Washington College
04/25/2023
Washington College was established in 1782 but it took six years for a building to be constructed specifically for the college. Rakestraw and Hicks of Philadelphia created the plans for a four-story building with two wings, which would cost $28,000 to build.
- Commencement
- Dedication
- Original College Building
- Archives
Colonial Recipes
04/18/2023
From the outside, Washington College’s copy of “Colonial recipes from old Virginia and Maryland Manors” by Maude A. Bomberger is not much to look at. Sure, the font on the spine and cover is kind of neat, there’s a cute drawing of a country estate on the front, and the cloth is a nice shade of blue. But the wear and tear on the spine are evident, the binding is clearly loose, and who wants to eat like an American colonist, anyway?
- Archives
- Rare Books
- Recipes
A Middle Dutch Psalter
04/11/2023
A small oddity found in the rare book room at Miller Library has left us with a little mystery; It is a small book measuring only five inches by three and a half inches but with over four hundred hand-written pages.
- Illuminated Manuscripts
- Medieval
- Netherlands
- Psalters
- Archives
Every Bookplate a Mystery - Eugene Field
04/04/2023
Clifton Miller Library’s Rare Book Room contains many books donated by other charitable libraries, former professors, alumni, and students. The bookplates tell the story of their former owners. However, many of the bookplates themselves are a mystery.
- Rare Books
- Bookplates
Two Truths and a Lie about Washington College
03/31/2023
In celebration of April Fool’s Day, we present to our readers two truths and a lie about Washington College history and tradition. See if you can guess which are which! Just for fun, the lie will contain a grain of truth!
- April Fool's
Kathleen Carpenter: Mother of Freshwater Ecology
03/28/2023
Washington College’s excellence in Environmental Science has deep roots. It is possible that the local environment attracted Dr. Kathleen E. Carpenter, sometimes called the Mother of Freshwater Ecology, to the Eastern Shore and Washington College.
- CES
- Ecology
- Kathleen Carpenter
- Archives
Every Bookplate a Mystery
03/24/2023
Clifton Miller Library’s Rare Book Room contains many books donated by other charitable libraries, former professors, alumni, and students. The bookplates tell the story of their former owners. However, many of the bookplates themselves are a mystery.
- Rare Books
- Bookplates
Maryland Beaten Biscuits
03/21/2023
One of the oldest Eastern Shore recipes is also one of the area’s most contentious. Variously called “Virginia”, “Delaware”, and “’Maryland’ beaten biscuits” depending on which state you happen to be in at the time, these biscuits are well-known in the region for their unique manner of being made.
- Maryland
- Recipes
This week in Washington College History - March 10
03/10/2023
March 3, 1978: Spring Break-themed comic strip by student J. Dixon
- Anthony Burgess
- Fun
- writers
- Spring Break