Test Your Knowledge of Obscure University History Facts
What was the name of the school’s first student newspaper?
Which University president held the longest tenure?
What symbol was on the University’s first seal?
Who was the first faculty member?
How old was Mabel Dart, the first full-time woman student, when she began her studies at the University?
During WWII, which major gave students eligibility for deferments?
Which academic program was founded in 1970 as a result of the antiwar movement?
In what year did the Society of Alumni and Friends (now the Alumni Council) first organize?
What was the name of the first literary group for African American students?
Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag, and Philip Roth visited campus in October 1964 for a festival celebrating the future opening of which campus building?
Which football coach was known as “the canny Scot of the Chenango”?
What were Colgate’s original colors?
Who was the last survivor of the 13 founders?
Answer Key
- The Hamilton Student
- Ebenezer Dodge
- A winged angel holding an open book, presumably the Bible
- Daniel Hascall, an alumnus of Middlebury College
- Dart was 14 when she began studying at Madison University; she stayed for seven semesters before being transferred to Vassar, where she was allowed to earn a degree and graduated as the youngest member of her class.
- Economics, “anticipating their roles as logistics and supply officers or in various war-mobilization agencies in Washington,” according to Becoming Colgate
- The Peace and Conflict Studies Program
- The organization held its inaugural meeting in Utica in 1825.
- The Besmanbomara Society, formed circa 1922
- The Festival of the Creative Arts was organized in anticipation of the Dana Arts Center.
- Andy Kerr
- Blue and magenta
- Robert Powell, who lived until the age of 79, died in 1875