Author: Jessica Daues

The first varsity baseball squad at the University took the field in 1946 and went 17-11, but baseball on the Hilltop Campus dates much further back. The 1903 team (above) was one of the earliest athletic teams to suit up for the University. Since 1946, the Bears have gone 922-778-9 for a winning percentage of […]

The transition from high-school student to college student can be a difficult one for some, and over the years the University has implemented many programs and initiatives to help first-year students feel at home. One was the freshman camp (above, 1954), which brought together enrolled students before their first semester began in order to give […]

Feb. 23 is “William Greenleaf Eliot Day”; it will feature two lectures on him, as well as a release and signing of the pictorial history book.

The only areas not yet finished are the Crossroads Café, the grand staircase and a reading room on the east side of the building.

Construction Update is published periodically and provides information about the progress of major building and renovation projects. Information is provided to the Record by facilities management. Earth and Planetary Sciences Building The masonry work continues with the granite and limestone facade. The roofing is complete. Partition framing continues on all levels, and dry-wall and painting […]

For more than 50 years, the Assembly Series has brought some of the most important voices in contemporary society to campus, including the 14th Dalai Lama (above) in September 1993. The Dalai Lama is the head of state and spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. The spring 2004 Assembly Series kicked off with Pulitzer Prize-winning […]

Coached by educators who were anxious to prove that colleges and universities were military assets, the War Department in the spring and summer of 1918 laid plans for the organization of the Student’s Army Training Corps. Able-bodied men from ages 18-21 with a high-school education could seek admission to any college or university on the […]

His book is titled Islam, Law and Equality in Indonesia: An Anthropology of Public Reasoning.

The following incidents were reported to University Police Jan. 21-27. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. Jan. 22 7:43 p.m. — A person […]

For several years, the University was known as a “streetcar college” because most University students were local until about 1960. A streetcar traveled along what is now Forest Park Parkway and had its own right-of-way west of DeBaliviere Avenue. Pictured above is the last streetcar to pass by the Hilltop Campus, in 1963. But more […]