Entries tagged with ‘1912’

View from the Hill

How far have we come in the study of science in 100 years? Here is a 1912 chemistry class including Edwin Knock (Class of 1912) with a few other Gustie science students.

View from the Hill

This photograph is 100 years old this year! This is the 1912-13 “College Family” photograph on the south side of the old Auditorium. The Aud burnt down in 1970.  

Factoid Friday

By 1915 there were five social societies for men and four for women. They grew from “secret” literary societies, and debating groups which eventually adopted Greek letters to become fraternities and sororities in the mid-1920s.  

Blast from the Past!

  This picture captures a 1912 domestic economy course offered at Gustavus. The women and instructor in the picture are unknown, though Professor Uhler’s name is written on the image.