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		<title>Religious Studies at Davidson</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Privott]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[Entry written by Emily Privott &#8217;19, a graduate in Religious Studies from Davidson College and former Archives Assistant in Archives, Special Collections &#38; Community. In 1837, Davidson College was founded by members of the Concord Presbytery. Since the college’s founding, the study of religion has been a central offering in the curriculum. From a department [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Extracurricular Activities &#8211; Political and Social Justice Groups</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 21:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Political and Social Justice Groups Colleges and universities have had a large influence on the political and social climate of the United States. At each institution, multiple groups provide forums for debate about the important issues of the day. Whether participating in the Greensboro sit-ins or the large-scale University of California at Berkeley protests of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Extracurricular Activities &#8211; Independents</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 20:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; At Davidson College during the 1960’s, there was growing concern that social life was at the mercy of the fraternities. Independents (non-fraternity members) did have teams participating in inter-fraternity sports, but remained socially separate from fraternities (Three). In response to this, Davidson encouraged students to found various organizations to diversify social opportunities on campus. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Extracurricular Activities &#8211; Activity Planning Boards</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 16:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The first formal student organizations on Davidson&#8217;s campus were the Philanthropic and Eumenean Literary Societies founded within months of the college&#8217;s opening. Along with providing students opportunities to debeate and practice public speaking, the literary societies helped organize events around commencements and supported the first student publications. As the 19th century turned into the 20th, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Extracurricular Activities &#8211; Honorary Fraternities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2016 22:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[History of Fraternities in America The first Greek letter society in the United States was founded in 1776 at the University of William and Mary. Called Phi Beta Kappa, the secret organization was created with the purpose of fostering brotherhood among its members (Student Involvement). This fraternity, as with most original fraternities, focused on studying [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Arts and Communications Clubs (1860s-1940s)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2016 15:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Despite Davidson College’s vigorous academic requirements, students have always found the time to engage in a wide variety of activities through clubs. From the 1870s to 1940, students created and participated in arts and communications clubs that allowed them to focus on their passions beyond academics and sports. The first non-sports related clubs were primarily [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Intramural Baseball 1880-1940</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2016 14:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Toward the end of the nineteenth century into the early twentieth century, sports grew as a popular form of out-door play and entertainment for students at Davidson College. Many new teams and activities arose with the growth of the student body from 120 students in 1888 to 650 students in 1940. College athletes entered the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>YMCA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2016 14:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[According to the Young Men’s Christian Association 1931 Annual Report, the  Davidson College chapter formed as, “Davidson men of past and present have poured into a ‘melting pot’ the greatest gifts of their personality, their ideas and their ideals. From this contribution has arisen that structure on our campus which we call the ‘Y’.”(Annual Report [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dating at Davidson, 1880-1940s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2016 14:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Socializing at Home and the Importance of Commencement In the 1880s, the less than one hundred men attending Davidson College had a relatively quiet social life.  Davidson College was located in a small town, isolated by inadequate roads and surrounded by cotton fields.  As Mary Beaty explains in A History of Davidson College, “Lacking other [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Athletics Timeline</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Blodgett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2016 19:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
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