Entries tagged with ‘Gustavian Weekly’
Factoid Friday
Following the 1963 Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm, Gustavus representatives met with Nobel Foundation officials, asking them to endorse an annual science conference at the College and to allow use of the Nobel name to establish credibility and high standards. At the urging of several prominent Nobel Laureates, the foundation granted the request and the […]
Words of Wisdom
“Successful assimilation into the Gustavus community requires the acquisition of many new skills. On the academic level, the freshman, confronted with responsibility for his own free time, must perfect the skill of time allotment. Similarly, now that Mom and Dad aren’t around to awaken the new college student on Sunday morning, he must discover for […]
Tuesday Trivia: Answered!
Before the Greeks we know today became official fraternities and sororities, many of them were literary and debating society’s (and a few “secret” ones as well) who printed their own newspapers with their minutes. An official all-college newspaper can trace it’s roots back to the the names of Gustaviana (1890-1895) and The Gustavus Adolphus Journal (1896-1903) and […]
Tuesday Trivia
Before the Greeks we know today became official fraternities and sororities, many of them were literary and debating society’s (and a few “secret” ones as well) who printed their own newspapers with their minutes. An official all-college newspaper can trace […]
Words of Wisdom
“One thing that I do know is that when I drive down the hill for the last time as a student, and almost an alum, and I look in my rear-view mirror at Old Main, I can smile and know that even though my heart is heavy […]
Words of Wisdom
Gustavus President Edward A. Lindell said his idea of an ideal college was one in which “everything is second to academic excellence… and Gustavus is well on its way to academic superiority.” Unknown, Gustavian Weekly September 19, 1975