Talk:Lafayette College/Archive 1

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 * Replace the information originating in Daniel Weiss's Inaugural Address — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dumaisj59 (talk • contribs) 01:56, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Initial charter was for Military and Civil Engineering
 * Financial Solvency - Presbyterian ties for monetary gain?
 * Charter explicitly stated no exclusion based on religion
 * Six years after the charter, Rev Junkin - Manual Labor instead of Military/Civil Engineering
 * After seven years, abandoned this and moved to raising silkworms
 * Next experiment was a Model school, but no education students matriculated
 * 1863 - Enrollment dropped to 50 (Civil War)
 * Catell becomes president, Pardee donates $$, Pardee Hall, v1.0 erected - School of Engineering?
 * 1879 - Pardee Hall burns.
 * ~18 months later, Pardee Hall v2.0 erected, President Hayes present for dedication
 * 1897, Pardee Hall burns again, this time Arson
 * Pardee Hall v3.0 erected in ?
 * Lafayette Censured for academic freedom while Warfield (sp?) president
 * McCracken (sp?) replaced Warfield in 1915 and re-organized the college
 * Fraternities Emerge
 * Major/Minor system
 * International Students
 * College Publications (The Lafayette)
 * Calculus Required
 * Cremation Plays?
 * 1889 First Junior Hop (Dance)
 * 1890 First Fraternity Dance
 * 1900 First indoor plumbing, steam heat, electric light in dorms
 * WWI - Drilling on campus
 * WWII - Drilling on campus again
 * 89 men lost during the war
 * After WWII, 2 Tuskegee Airmen, first black students in over a century
 * Lafayette College President rejects the Sun Bowl due to racial prejudice
 * 1948 Civil Rights rally
 * 1949 - Nishiyama - Kamikaze pilot, scholarship
 * 1954 - First full-time female professor
 * 1970 - First female students
 * 1971 - First (full-time?) black professor
 * 1983 - Willams Center
 * 2001(?) - Visual Arts
 * 2000 - Kirby Sports

Athletics and Student Life
Deletion of list of championships: This was deleted from the Athletics section, in order to keep pace with similar Wikipedia pages, like Bucknell's and Providence's pages. We are attempting to receive a 'Good Article' award, and using pages like those as examples. In addition, all of that information is available on the 'Lafayette Leopards' page. - ginamorrone — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ginamorrone (talk • contribs) 18:23, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Potential Additions
More precise captions on available images. Images with people in them. Cohesive language, better organization. More relevant sub-headings. More comprehensive student life representation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.147.111.165 (talk) 19:58, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Apology
I'd just like to apologize for originally listing Alpha Phi Omega's founding at Lafayette College as being Lafayette University. Naraht 12:50, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Beer Pong?
Beer Pong? The beer pong article says Lehigh or Bucknell, with no mention of Lafayette. It was after my time, so I can't help. tim 19:15, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

It's Beirut. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.74.28.52 (talk) 01:26, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Lafayette College Presidents
I am confused. Somewhere in Wikipedia, I thought I saw a list of Lafayette College presidents. Can someone tell me where that is? 71.225.51.30 (talk) 15:00, 27 February 2009 (UTC)Dthomsen8


 * List of presidents is at List of Lafayette College people.--DThomsen8 (talk) 00:27, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

More pictures available
I'm a parent of a prospective student who took pictures of the beautiful Lafayette campus on a tour yesterday, and I uploaded them. Problem is, I don't know the names of buildings. I added some photos but please feel free to choose the best photos and order them accordingly on the Lafayette wikipage. I photographed many buildings and views although I didn't get to the Kirby Sports Center. I asked if I might take a picture of a student; unfortunately, an admissions person named Anne-Marie refused to let me take a picture of an actual student (reason: "we have to clear it with communications..." sheesh -- bureaucratic fear???). So this article still suffers from a perennial problem, namely, zombie-ism, like there's a school with no people in it which, perhaps, the marketing department of Lafayette will get wise to, and write something here (on this talk page) and I can help them get pictures of people uploaded to de-zombify the wikipage. Beautiful school overall. Here are photos which you may wish to consider adding. Check out the one with me climbing the ladder -- I'm such a daredevil, aren't I??? --Tomwsulcer (talk) 20:11, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Sir/Madam; Wiki Community: Speaking of photos of the campus, a shot picturing the brilliant cement Archway entrance to the Hill, from the town, should be taken. A wonderful idea, and probably a class gift. If one parks in the town (below), the entrance is commonly through this arch, and up the path to the college. (John G. Lewis (talk) 16:12, 16 September 2015 (UTC))

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Lafayette College Alumni
Please add the tag to your user page, if you qualify!--Dthomsen8 (talk) 18:36, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Campus of Lafayette College
I've been working on the Campus of Lafayette College page for about 6 months now and finally felt it complete enough to add to the main article space. I have most of the important buildings added, though a few important ones (Hogg, Farinon, Acopian, etc) have yet to be included. I'll get around to them soon. I'm posting here for visibility so we get more eyes on editing the page to Wikipedia's standards. I know not everyone has access to the Skillman and Gendebien references (nor does everyone have such a vested interest that they want to read 1000 pages of school history, lol) so if you have specific questions on those references I can definitely assist with those. Appreciate all the help I can get - thanks! S EMMENDINGER  ( talk ) 01:09, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for doing this. See my addition below. Bellagio99 (talk) 12:53, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Other Significant Faculty?
I'm wondering if other significant faculty should be added. The ones I know would be: K Roald Bergethon, the President starting in 1958, who got rid of the Jewish admission quotas that Lafayette had had until then; Whatever President led the move to coeducation WW Watt -- English prof in the 1940s onward-- who was a BMOC, had a best selling edited compilation (which I still use), and coached Lafayette's undefeated College Bowl Team Albert Gendebien, who did the significant history of the college ?? Welch, who edited the Federalist papers. This is just my era. Bellagio99 (talk) 12:54, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
 * One of my goals a while back was to make a page for every Laf president who didn't yet have one. Bergethon is on my list (he's the one who led the change to make the school co-ed), but I'm having a hard time finding good references to meet WP:GNG. He's featured prominently in Gendebien's biography, as the book ends with the last days of Bergethon's administration, but as for other sources, they are scant. Same problem with Arthur Rothkopf.. just not a lot of non-trivial mentions of him in the newspapers. Gendebien likely suffers the same problem but I haven't done a thorough search on him as of yet. I like the ideas though, I'll start digging deeper once my Newspapers.com premium subscription renews. S EMMENDINGER  ( talk ) 13:58, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

McDonogh additions
Last year an addition to the page introduced a short history of early two African American students, David K. McDonogh and Washington Watts McDonogh, and their education at Lafayette. I merged the main focus of this addition into the early history of the school (see diff). Today, another attempt to re-introduce the story appeared, which I removed outright. I wanted to open up a dialogue before this turns into a regular thing. I feel that the vignette about these two individuals is out of place and WP:UNDUE. The removal is even more so bolstered by the fact that they are redlinks, and the story is a copy and paste from John McDonogh, where they are already outlined. The only addition that is relevant to Lafayette College (and therefore this article) is that they both studied there, which is trivial at best (see WP:HOLE). The rest of the addition serves as a minor biography, which has no place on this page. (If it did, we could add little life stories for all our past alumni, even the ones without their own Wikipedia pages... that's the premise of WP:BALASP.) S EMMENDINGER  ( talk ) 18:37, 14 June 2020 (UTC)


 * For the sake of thoroughness I did a little more research and there is in fact a Lafayette-centered legacy of McDonogh that can be added to the article. This would be the McDonogh Network. This would best fit in the student life section. No need for any biographical information on either individual though, I'll blue-link them through John McDonogh instead if I'm the first to get around to it - likely this weekend. S EMMENDINGER  ( talk ) 14:23, 15 June 2020 (UTC)