Entries tagged with ‘speaker’

Tuesday Trivia: Answered!

How many Nobel Laureates has Gustavus hosted in the past 150 years (including non-Nobel Conference speakers)?   C. 95  

Fun Fact Friday!

In 1900, the Democratic Presidential nominee, William Jennings Bryan (and future Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson) brought his campaign to St. Peter, giving many Gustavus students their first opportunity to hear a nationally recognized speaker. Eleven years later, President William Howard Taft came to St. Peter on his campaign train.