This year marks a full century since the 1918 worldwide influenza pandemic, during which four World War I Hillsdale student draftees came down with the flu. That epidemic was not the worst Hillsdale has seen, however. While the college was not widely harmed by this outbreak of the H1N1 influenza virus, it was severely affected...
Six years ago, Sacred Heart Academy in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was nearly 110 years old and on the verge of shutting down. Now, it’s quadrupled in size and is the only classical Catholic school in the Grand Rapids diocese — thanks in large part to the work of Hillsdale graduate Zach Good ‘08, the academy’s...
Brenna Wade has been a librarian at heart all her life. “I can peg it back to third grade,” said Wade, Hillsdale College’s public services librarian. “We had a dinosaur trivia question every day. The goal was to answer the most trivia questions.” At the beginning of the project, the teacher pointed to a pile...
Expendability is the byword for most of the Gilded Age’s newspaper verse, and the work of Rose Hartwick Thorpe is no exception. Although her 1867 poem “Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight” was of the most popular ballads of the 19th century, by the late 20th, it faded into obscurity. Thorpe began publishing as a 16-year-old...
After spending Thanksgiving break seeing friends, eating obscene amounts of food, and catching up on sleep, it’s hard to imagine that someone might spend it writing over 6,000 words a day. That’s just what Freshman Sydney Crawford did during Thanksgiving break of her senior year in high school. Crawford is a published author of a...