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Japanese anime and traveling to Narnia seldom show up on college midterms. But this fall, students will study these subjects in honors seminars. “Honors seminars are there to provide a way to learn what we don’t have time to study otherwise,” said Professor of Theater and Speech James Brandon. Some of these one-credit seminars include...

The cry came from the other side of the tent flap as the orderly rushed in. “President Lincoln is coming!” A wail erupted from the beds of the Confederate wounded. “Oh, don’t leave us, Miss! He is a beast! He will kill us!” “Oh, no. He is a grand good man,” Mary Blackmar replied. Again,...

At 8 a.m. on Nov. 4, 1945, the women of the Chi Omega sorority slept peacefully in their beds. By 8:15 a.m. the house was in a commotion. “Fire!” Residents sprang to their feet and ran out into the chilly morning to escape the billowing smoke. “There we stood in the backyard in our nightgowns...

The deafening roar of musket fire came to a climax as Sgt. Moses Luce reached the Confederate line. He looked around and saw only two men out of the seven he had brought with him still standing. Above the sounds of the battle, he heard a trumpet call. “Retreat,” he thought. He ran back across...

The Roaring ’20s brought a social stage to Hillsdale, and the Ambler House, located between Broadlawn and the Alpha Tau Omega house, was the center of the social scene. “In 1920 a group of girls who had become quite satiated with the thrills of sorority life moved over to the Ambler House where they practice...