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1837-2012 ◊◊ Celebrating Davidson’s 175th anniversary
March 11- The College gets a Constitution, the library gets a catalog, faculty take over athletics, and the Committee on College Organizations other than Athletics gets to work.
Concord Presbytery Minutes 11 March 1839
March 11: 1839– Presbytery of Concord votes to accept the charter granted by the NC legislature, purchase land and adopt a college constitution creating the Board of Trustees. Presbytery will nominate college trustees.
March 11: 1887– At the request of the Library Committee, $75. was fixed as the compensation for cataloging the books in the Union Library. The Faculty, upon request of the same committee, decided to appoint a student to do the work of cataloging. Charles G. Vardell and Miles Costin Martin were the students appointed to catalog the books, Vardell later became president of Flora McDonald College.
March 11: 1915 – Faculty minutes report that after a “discussion of the character of the participation in athletic matters that should be accorded the Alumni Athletic Association, it was moved and carried that it be the sense of the Faculty that all authority in athletic matters should be vested in the Faculty.”
College Band 1920
March 11: 1920 – Faculty minutes report that the petition of the College Band to be allowed to take a trip to give musical entertainments was referred to the ‘Committee on College Organizations other than Athletics’ with power to act. At the same meeting, the faculty give permission to the students to invite the students of Queens College to attend Field Day exercises on March 27
March 12 – Presbytery founds college, college opens, salaries and curriculum changes, caps and gowns, roads less travelled
March 12: 1835 – Meeting at Prospect Church, Thursday, March 12, 1835, the Presbytery of Concord, “taking into consideration the importance of a more general diffusion of useful knowledge, and the expediency of adopting some system of sound and thorough education that may be accessible to all classes of the community; and having learned with pleasure that the Manual labor system as far as it has been tried, promises the most happy results in training up youth to virtuous and industrious habits with well cultivated minds, Unanimously Resolved that this Presbytery, deeply impressed with the importance of securing the means of Education to young men, within our bounds of hopeful piety, and talents, preparatory to the Gospel ministry; undertake (in humble reliance on the blessings of God;)– the establishment of a Manual labor School; and that a committee be appointed to report to the next meeting of Presbytery the best measures for its accomplishment and the most favorable place for it’s location”
Excerpt from Faculty Minutes describing opening of college
March 12 : 1837 – Davidson College begins its first semester.
March 12: 1839 – Trustees set the salaries of the college president and faculty at $1200 per year.
Image from Davidsonian article on Frost
March 12: 1886 – Faculty determined that hereafter all studies of the Junior year should be elective, as are now those of the Senior year.
March 12: 1924 – Faculty accept the request of the Senior Class and adopt academic dress for Commencement. The Registrar was appointed to secure caps and gowns for the faculty.
March 12: 1953 – Robert Frost lecture – 1953
March 13- Faculty alter commencement speeches, – Reynolds Lectures in 3rd year
March 13: 1874 – Faculty decide that “hereafter at Commencement, “the Valedictory Oration” shall be considered the first distinction, “The Latin” the second, and “The Philosophical” the third in the “Classical Course’’; and that a “Scientific Oration” be added which shall be considered the first distinction in the”Scientific Courses.”
March 13: 1963 – Gilbert Highet gives Reynolds Lecture on “The Liberal Teacher” 1963
March 14 – Faculty ask for Librarian to teach remedial Latin and Greek, students hear of the dangers of sports
Davidsonian article on Gammon talk
March 14: 1893 -Faculty ask Trustees that “an Instructor and Librarian, at a salary of $600.00 be appointed, and that the office of Librarian and the office of Tutor, as at present constituted, be abolished; the person thus chosen to have charge of Preparatory Latin, Greek and Mathematics, to the end (among others) that the courses in French and German may be developed into two year courses, the Professor in those Departments being relieved of the preparatory work in Latin and Greek. Faculty also discuss plans for the enlargement and development of courses in Political Economy and History.
March 14: 1928 – Speaking on the subject of ‘College Athletics,” Rev. Mr. Gammon, of Myers Park Presbyterian Church, presented an exhaustive survey of the field of college sports with suitable emphasis on the dangers as well as the advantages in 1928.
March 15 – Literary Societies struggle with commencement costs, the college gets a special Bible and a senator speaks
Yearbook carton with list of 1904 commencement marshals from literary societies
March 15: 1904 – The Faculty respond to requests from the literary societies asking for help covering commencement expenses. The $2.00 commencement fee used by the societies to fund the commencement, is only paid by society members and now 40% of students are not members creating a hardship for the societies. While the faculty decides that it:
has no authority to levy an additional fee upon the Student Body for any purpose and the Literary Societies have already, by the appointment of Marshalls, taken charge of the Commencement celebration for this year. For these reasons, it is not deemed practicable, during this term, to make any change in the mode of collecting Commencement Fees, except that the Faculty urge, through the President, upon the Student Body, the obligation that rests upon each one, whether belonging to the Literary Societies or not, to contribute his share toward the payment of Commencement expenses.
Title page of Breeches Bible
March 15: 1963 The – Davidsonian announces that through the efforts of Dr. Davidson and Dr. Cumming, the Rare Book Room acquired a “Breeches Bible” in 1963.
March 15: 1966: Senator Strom Thurman lectures in Chambers Auditorium 1966.
March 16- Faculty begin Government Documents collection, change grading system, pave way for Shakespeare prize
March 16: 1883 – Faculty accept an offer from the Department of State of Journals and Documents of Congress from 1857-77, on the condition that the college would defray the expenses of transportation.
March 16: 1888– Faculty adopt a new “Marking System” that included – the grade for satisfactory attainment by 60 for the Freshman Class; 65 for the Sophomore Class; 70 for the Junior Class; 75 for the Senior Class. Also approved that Dr. Currell be authorized to take steps to secure a Shakespeare prize for the new Shakespeare Society.
March 17 – Faculty discipline students for sling-shots and cheap shots
March 17: 1876 – Two students are called before the faculty for using sling -shots, “the use of which had been forbidden” – they were reproved and given demerits.
Faculty cartoon in 1895 Quips and Cranks
Faculty jokes in 1895 Quip and Cranks
March 17: 1896 Faculty minutes mandate that “nothing be allowed to be published in the College Annual that has not been approved of by the faculty.” This mandate resulted from the students inability to resist the “temptation” to caricature the faculty in the 1895 first volume of Quips and Cranks.
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