Like pieces gathered into a collection of art, the Slayton Arboretum has dozens of different trees in its collections. Hillsdale is home to many interesting trees, including three special tree collections: the witch hazel, the lilac, and the magnolia. “I try really hard not to have a monoculture here to avoid the diseases,” said...
Around this time during the spring semester 100 years ago, only 12 upperclassmen men remained on campus after 192 male students enlisted to serve in World War I, according to Professor Emeritus of History Arlan Gilbert’s second volume of Hillsdale College history. As of Nov. 21, 1918, 249 men and women were on active service,...
Clichés are often overused in the sports world, but sometimes they are simply the best way to express what we mean. In the wake of the bus crash which killed 15 members of the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team, the cliché “It’s more than a game” is the best expression to use. The crash occurred...
Hillsdale College inducted three former athletes —Ashlee Crowder ’13, Amanda Putt Eccleston ’12, and Andre Holmes ’11—and the 1969 football team into the Hall of Fame at the Searle Center on Saturday. The Athletic Hall of Fame Committee chose the members of its 20th class for their contributions to all aspects of the Hillsdale College athletic...
An ocean away, amidst the peace and beauty of the French countryside, a memorial stands adorned with the statue of an American soldier. Harriet Beale commissioned this memorial as a tribute to her son, First Lieutenant Walker Beale, who was killed in action on 18 Sept. 1918, at 22-years-old. A simple, mournful inscription is written...