Monthly Archives: October 2013

Remember this from last week? This was discovered yesterday inside the ceiling of an art department room in the first Sewall basement. It’s a piece of art, intricate and exquisitely constructed. Covered with dust, it had clearly been in the ceiling … Continue reading →

It’s pretty wet today and they’re saying that the really heavy stuff isn’t going to come down until tomorrow. These photos from sometime in the early 1930s record the consequences of a similarly rainy bout: I don’t care who you … Continue reading →

I’ve been carrying these two photos around for a month or so, waiting for a reason to go out to the stadium and have a look around. They are misdated as “September 1950.” That simply can’t be right–it’s not the … Continue reading →

Some technologies fulfill their intended purpose so perfectly that they can never entirely be replaced. 1916: 2013: I can’t identify the young women in the earlier photo but the one who so graciously allowed me to take her picture on … Continue reading →

I’m stumped.

Every once in a while I stumble on to something that really matters to people.  After I posted about Eddie Wojecki the other day, my in-box quickly filled with stories of his skill and compassion. More than a dozen people … Continue reading →

I find myself quite pressed for time tonight, but I do have something cool that I found unexpectedly this afternoon. This was the centerpiece of a full page newspaper spread published in the early spring of 1941–the reporter followed a … Continue reading →

There’s clearly much more to being an athletic trainer than taping ankles but apparently people enjoy taking pictures of ankle taping because there are a lot of them. It also seems that taping ankles is more enjoyable than one might … Continue reading →

Special thanks to Bill Hobby, who brought this story to my attention.

This photograph is undated but between Willy’s toga and the Faber College motto it seems safe to say it was probably taken in or around 1978, the year Animal House was released: This is the groundbreaking ceremony for the statue. … Continue reading →