This distinctive signature will be familiar to many baseball fans and Marylanders. It belongs to the man who has been known as “Mr. Oriole,” “Mr. Hoover,” and “The Human Vacuum Cleaner,” a man who is almost synonymous with Baltimore baseball…. legendary third baseman, Brooks Robinson.
Aubrey Beardsley was an English artist whose name you might not know, although you may recognize his work.
It’s easy to see why Leah Frederick, class of 1936, was described by this anonymous Pegasus writer as “bewitching everyone that she meets on the campus” even without her “wide smile” on display
In many of the Presidents’ papers, there is typically a folder titled “Discipline”. Most of these folders contain varied infractions of co-ed parties or alcohol on campus so when the whole folder is about one student, you want to know more about them.
With our location on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, it is easy to think of Washington College as a sleepy little liberal arts college content to prepare its students for the world beyond academia as the Chester River lazily ripples by.
Though a yearbook primarily functions as a memory book of past times and events by those who experienced them, to outsiders who lack sentimental attachments and baggage, a yearbook serves a different purpose altogether.
The National Home Front Project is a major grassroots initiative under the leadership of historians at Washington College. Our innovative oral history program partners with individuals, communities, and organizations across the United States to record, preserve, and share audio interviews with civilians who experienced World War II.
It was 161 years ago this month that for the first time, the shocking violence of the Civil War was brought right here to Maryland during Robert E. Lee’s Maryland Campaign of 1862.
Things to bring to college, learning a new campus, and experiencing a new group of people are all things our incoming classmates are experiencing.
Fifty-three years ago this fall, students, staff, and faculty were welcomed back to campus to the sights and sounds of ongoing construction around the library- just like last week.
