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,...
The kitchen is full of life. A puppy yips and plastic utensils clatter in the kitchen. Two small children sit in highchairs, faces covered in scrambled eggs. Another sits at the table. A puppy with legs too long for its body frolicks, lapping up the bits of egg littering the floor. This is lunchtime at...
C.G. Appleby recalls his mother asking him, “Would you rather be a big fish in a small pond, or a small fish in a big pond?” when questioning whether University of Michigan — his family’s alma mater — or Hillsdale would be the right choice. Originally from Saginaw, Michigan, Appleby chose to study at Hillsdale...
California. Idaho. Florida. Ohio. Michigan. Alumni of the classes of 1958 and 1968 traveled across the nation to celebrate their 60th and 50th reunions, respectively, this past weekend. They came to relax, rekindle relationships, and reminisce about a simpler time, a time when the college mascot was the Dales and the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity...
Seniors Lauren Barlass and Randi Block are garbage queens. The housemates opted to start a zero-waste lifestyle in October, switching out plastic and disposables for glass and reusable bags, after Block saw a video promoting it. “Living zero-waste means that, to the best of our ability, we don’t buy anything that can’t be recycled indefinitely,”...