Davidson College is a private liberal arts college for 1,700 students in Davidson, North Carolina, USA. Both the town and college were named for Brigadier General William Lee Davidson, a Revolutionary War commander. The land for Davidson College came from Brig. Gen. Davidson's estate, a large portion of which was donated by his son. For other uses, see Motto (disambiguation). ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1837 - 1901) 1837 (MDCCCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... For the film of this title, see Private School (film). ... A financial endowment is a transfer of money or property donated to an institution, with the stipulation that it be invested, and the principal remain intact. ... University President is the title of the highest ranking officer within a university, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Chancellor or rector. ... Thomas W. Ross, Sr. ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... For Davidson County, North Carolina, click here Davidson is a town in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, lying right along the southern edge of the Iredell and Mecklenburg County line. ... Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. ... School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. ... Red re-directs here; for alternate uses see Red (disambiguation) Red is a color at the lowest frequencies of light discernible by the human eye. ... This article is about the color black; for other uses, see Black (disambiguation). ... The athletic nickname, or equivalently athletic moniker, of a university or college within the United States of America is the name officially adopted by that institution for at least the members of its athletic teams. ... Millie, once mascot of the City of Brampton, is now the Brampton Arts Councils representative. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Liberal arts colleges in the United States are institutions of higher education in the United States which are primarily liberal arts colleges. ... For Davidson County, North Carolina, click here Davidson is a town in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, lying right along the southern edge of the Iredell and Mecklenburg County line. ... William Lee Davidson (1746–1781), was a North Carolina militia general during the American Revolutionary War. ...

The College was established by Presbyterians in 1837, though as recently as 2005 it has adjusted and rearticulated its now largely nominal religious affiliation. According to its Board of Trustees, the dedication of the college "extends beyond the Christian community to the whole of humanity and necessarily includes openness to and respect for the world’s various religious traditions."^[2] Majors are offered in over twenty fields, as are several minors and self-designed interdisciplinary options. The college has graduated 23 Rhodes Scholars and is consistently ranked in the top ten liberal arts colleges in the country by U.S. News and World Report magazine. Presbyterianism is part of the Reformed churches family of denominations of Christian Protestantism based on the teachings of John Calvin which traces its institutional roots to the Scottish Reformation, especially as led by John Knox. ... Rhodes House in Oxford Rhodes Scholarships were created by Cecil John Rhodes. ... U.S. News & World Report is a weekly newsmagazine. ...

Location

The campus is located near Lake Norman, in the town of Davidson, North Carolina (pop. 8,100) about 20 miles north of Charlotte. The Universitätscampus Wien, Austria ( details) Campus (plural: campuses) is derived from the (identical) Latin word for field or open space. English gets the words camp and campus from this origin. ... Lake Norman, created in 1963 as part of the construction of the Cowans Ford Dam by Duke Power, is the largest manmade body of fresh water in North Carolina. ... For Davidson County, North Carolina, click here Davidson is a town in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, lying right along the southern edge of the Iredell and Mecklenburg County line. ... Charlotte redirects here. ...

Institution

Davidson is known as an extremely intellectually rigorous college and is notorious for its difficult grading standards.

Moreover, according to The Princeton Review, it is ranked in the top twenty colleges nationally for the following categories: "Best Overall Academic Experience For Undergraduates," "Professors Get High Marks," "Professors Make Themselves Accessible," and "Their Students Never Stop Studying." ^[3] Davidson students used to complain about a lack of name recognition among the American public, but recent national media coverage, including articles in the New York Times Education supplement and Time and Newsweek magazines, have heightened Davidson's national profile.^[4] Newsweek named Davidson as one of twenty-five "New Ivies." In 2007, Kiplinger's Personal Finance ranked Davidson fourth in the list of liberal arts colleges. On 19 March 2007, Davidson became the first liberal arts college in the country to eliminate loans from financial aid packages; all demonstrated need is met by grants and student employment.^[5] The Princeton Review (TPR) is a for-profit American educational preparation company. ... The Newsweek logo Newsweek is a weekly news magazine published in New York City and distributed throughout the United States and internationally. ... Kiplingers magazine cover Kiplingers Personal Finance is a magazine that has been continuously published, on a monthly basis, from 1947 to the present day. ... is the 78th day of the year (79th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

The school became co-educational in 1973, and today maintains a 50/50 ratio of men to women. A very high percentage of Davidson graduates enter the legal profession, medicine, or government service.

Academics

Admissions Profile

Chambers Building, Davidson College, NC

For the class of 2011, the admissions rate was approximately 25%. The middle 50% of the SAT range for that class is 2010-2260. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1799x1325, 1326 KB) Summary Photo of main academic center or Chambers Building (Davidson College) taken in the spring of 2005. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1799x1325, 1326 KB) Summary Photo of main academic center or Chambers Building (Davidson College) taken in the spring of 2005. ...

The Davidson College Office of Admission & Financial Aid presents the college as one "dedicated to intellectual and cultural growth in the broadest sense." Davidson prides itself on a student body made up of the nation's most talented young people, chosen not only for their academic promise, but also for their character.

Faculty and admission personnel work together to select students for admission. The selection process is composed of three major elements: 1) the evaluation of academic performance and potential; 2) the assessment of individual characteristics; and 3) the recognition of outstanding interests, achievements, and activities. These three elements are used to gain an understanding of each student's academic and personal strengths and, thus, give an overall evaluation of the individual's eligibility for admission." ^[6]

Faculty

Davidson has a student-faculty ratio of 11-1, 89% of its classes are under 30 students, and no classes have more than 50 students.^[7]

Davidson has 167 instructional faculty members, of whom 159 are full-time employees. Almost all faculty members have terminal degrees in their field, with 163 of the 167 faculty members holding a PhD or their field's terminal degree. ^[8]

Honor code

E. H. Little Library, Davidson College, NC

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The Davidson College Honor Code states: "Every student shall be honor bound to refrain from cheating (including plagiarism). Every student shall be honor bound to refrain from stealing. Every student shall be honor bound to refrain from lying about College business. Every student shall be honor bound to report immediately all violations of the Honor Code of which the student has first-hand knowledge; failure to do so shall be a violation of the Honor Code. Every student found guilty of a violation shall ordinarily be dismissed from the College. Every member of the College community is expected to be familiar with the operation of the Honor Code."

Because of this Honor Code, Davidson students take self scheduled un-proctored finals, and many exams (known as "reviews" in Davidson vernacular) are take-home, timed, and closed book — with the proctor and the test-taker being one and the same. On every piece of submitted work, Davidson students (sometimes implicitly) sign: "On my honor, I pledge that I have neither given nor received help on this work, I have followed and will continue to observe all regulations regarding it, and I am unaware of any violations of the Honor Code by others." The subscription of students to this honor code extends beyond 'reviews,' essays, or research papers. Students have been noted to move items out of the rain (including bags, laptops, books, etc. to prevent damage) after leaving notes (wrapped in plastic or otherwise water-proofed) with their names, numbers, the items found, and the reasons for moving it. ^[9]

Majors and minors

Davidson offers majors in 20 subject areas, which include Anthropology, Art, Biology, Chemistry, Classics, Economics, English, French, German, History, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Sociology, Spanish, and Theater. Students can also design their own major through the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. In addition to the one major required for graduation, students may pursue a second major, a minor, or a concentration. Interdisciplinary concentrations are offered in Applied Mathematics, Asian Studies, Computer Science, Education, Ethnic Studies, Film and Media, Gender Studies, Genomics, International Studies, Medical Humanities, Neuroscience, and Southern Studies.

In February 2002, the Royal Shakespeare Company opened the Duke Family Performance Hall, one of the premier performance spaces in the Southeast. In 2007 and 2008, the Cunningham Fine Arts building, home to several smaller performance spaces, faculty offices, classrooms and set construction facilities, will be completely renovated.

Davidson’s new President, Judge Thomas W. Ross, has repeatedly credited Davidson's Classics Abroad program with redirecting his life. Begun by Professor George Labban in the 1960s, the program has survived the retirement of Labban and his successor Dirk French. Presently, it is the most popular of the college’s study abroad programs, along with the Semester in India program.

Student life

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Athletics

Davidson competes at the Division I level in 21 sports (Football plays for the Pioneer league, a non-scholarship football conference). Of these sports, 11 are men's sports and 10 are women's sports. Approximately 24% of the Davidson on-campus student body participates in varsity sports.[1] Davidson has the second smallest enrollment of any school in Division I football (nearby Wofford College, which plays in the Southern Conference, has the smallest enrollment of 1200).

Davidson's sports teams are known as the Wildcats and their colors are red and black. The Wildcats participate in the NCAA's Division I as a member of the Southern Conference in most sports. The sports that compete in conferences other than the Southern Conference are as follows: its football program competes in the Division I-AA Pioneer Football League, Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving compete in the Colonial Athletic Association, Field Hockey competes in the NORPAC conference, and the Lacrosse team is a member of the American Lacrosse Conference.^[10] The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often said NC-Double-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... The Southern Conference (or SoCon) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the NCAAs Division I. SoCon football teams compete in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (formerly known as I-AA). ... A college football game between Colorado State and Air Force. ... The Pioneer Football League is a college athletic conference which operates literally from coast to coast in the United States It has member schools that range from North Carolina and Florida in the east to California in the west. ... The Colonial Athletic Association, also known as the CAA, is a NCAA Division I college athletic conference whose members are located in East Coast states from Massachusetts to Georgia. ... NORPAC President Dr. Ben Chouake (right) talks with former U.S. President Bill Clinton. ... The American Lacrosse Conference, also known as the ALC, is a NCAA Division I Womens Lacrosse-only college athletic conference whose members are located in the Midwest and East Coast states from Illinois to Florida. ...

Men's basketball

Main article: Davidson Wildcats basketball

The basketball team reached the height of its success in the 1960s under Coach Lefty Driesell when it was ranked as the number one team in the country prior to the 1964-65 season by Sports Illustrated^[11]. The Davidson Wildcats Basketball team is the basketball team that represent Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. ... This article is about the sport. ... Charles Lefty Driesell (born December 25, 1931) is a retired college basketball coach. ... The first issue of Sports Illustrated, August 16, 1954, showing Milwaukee Braves star Eddie Mathews at bat in Milwaukee County Stadium. ...

Davidson's men's basketball team has competed in 9 NCAA tournaments (1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1986, 1998, 2002, 2006, and 2007). Their last NCAA tournament victory was in 1969 vs. St. John's, 79-69, advancing Davidson to the Elite Eight before losing 87-85 to North Carolina in the East Regional Final. ^[12]

Now under the guidance of Coach Bob McKillop, the Wildcats consistently post winning seasons. In 2006-07, they completed the regular season conference schedule with only one loss and enter the conference tournament as a No. 1 seed, earning a first round bye. On March 3, 2007, the Wildcats beat College of Charleston in the finals of the Southern Conference Tournament to become conference tournament champions for the second consecutive season. The championship won the school an automatic bid to the 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, where the Wildcats lost in the first round to Maryland, 82-70. In 2005-2006, the Wildcats posted a 20-10 overall record and earned an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament after winning the Southern Conference Tournament in Charleston, South Carolina. In 2004-2005, the Wildcats were undefeated in conference play with a 16-0 record and advanced to the 3rd round of the NIT. In 2001-2002, the Wildcats won the Southern Conference Tournament and lost a close game to Ohio State in the first round of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. Bob McKillop is head coach of the mens basketball team at Davidson College. ... The College of Charleston (C of C) is a public university located in historic downtown Charleston, South Carolina. ... The 2006 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament involved 65 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of mens NCAA Division I college basketball. ... The Southern Conference (or SoCon) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the NCAAs Division I. SoCon football teams compete in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (formerly known as I-AA). ... Nickname: Motto: Aedes Mores Juraque Curat (She cares for her temples, customs, and rights) Location of Charleston in South Carolina. ... // Final four redirects here. ...

In addition to Driesell and McKillop, a number of notable NCAA men's basketball head coaches have coached at Davidson. Matt Doherty, current head coach at SMU and former head coach of Notre Dame, North Carolina and Florida Atlantic, experienced his first coaching job as an assistant under McKillop, who ironically was Doherty's high school coach on Long Island. Former Virginia head coach and current East Carolina athletic director Terry Holland is a Davidson graduate (Class of 1964) and was Driesell's first recruit at Davidson, before advancing to assistant coaching, head coaching and athletic director duties at Davidson. Larry Brown (basketball), who would go on to win an NCAA championship with Kansas in 1988 and NBA championship with Detroit in 2004, began his nomadic head coaching career at Davidson, managing to depart before the start of his first season. Jim Larranaga, who took George Mason to the 2006 Final Four is a former Davidson assistant coach. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Head Coach Roy Williams 4th Year, 92-25 Home Stadium Dean E. Smith Center Capacity 21,750 Outfitter Nike Conference Affiliation Independent (1910-1921) Southern Conference (1921-1953) Atlantic Coast Conference (1953-Present) Team Records All-Time: 1,900-691 (.733) NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Champions (4) 1957... “FAU” redirects here. ... Main article: Virginia Cavaliers John Paul Jones Arena University Hall The Virginia Cavaliers are NCAA Division I mens and womens college basketball programs and members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. ... East Carolina University is a public, coeducational, intensive research university located in Greenville, North Carolina, United States. ... blah blah Modern athletic directors are often in a coaching misconduct being proven, often the athletic director will be terminated along with the offending coach. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Larry Brown For other people of the same name, see Larry Brown (disambiguation). ... James Larranaga (born October 2, 1949 in the Bronx, New York) is an American college basketball coach who currently holds the head coaching position at George Mason University. ... Current George Mason athletic logo The George Mason Patriots are the athletic teams of George Mason University. ... Final Four is a sports term that is commonly applied to the last four teams remaining in a playoff tournament. ...

Men's soccer

The men's soccer team at Davidson was declared a varsity sport in 1956 and had their first All-American player, Claude Finney, just four years later in 1960.

The peak of the soccer program was in 1992 when the team made a magical run to the NCAA Men's Soccer Tournament Final Four. Led by two-time All-American Rob Ukrop, Davidson finished the regular season 17-5-5, earning an at-large invitation to the NCAA Tournament. Three electrifying wins -- two on penalty kicks and one in sudden death overtime -- propelled Davidson into the Final Four, which miraculously was being hosted by Davidson on the school's campus. Davidson lost 3-2 in overtime against San Diego in the semifinal game, but the team received plenty of accolades. Ukrop led the nation with 31 goals and 72 points and was awarded the Adi Dassler Award, given to the nation's best player. Head coach Charlie Slagle was awarded NCAA Division I Coach of the Year for men's soccer. Remarkably, all of this was accomplished without the use of a single athletic scholarship on the 1992 team, leading The New York Times to herald the team as "22 educated feet." ^[13] The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ...

Student organizations

The main student newspaper on campus is the Davidsonian, which is published weekly on Wednesday evenings. The Davidsonian was founded in 1914, its name coming from the contest-winning entry submitted by sophomore William H. Neal of Winston-Salem, NC, and has published a volume every year since then. ^[14]

Davidson offers a large number of student organizations on campus, such as Black Student Coalition, Asian Cultural Awareness Association, Gay-Straight Alliance [2], Environmental Action Coalition, and Muslim Students Association. Any time a student is interested in an organization that does not currently exist, he or she is encouraged to visit the Student Activities Office to discuss founding a new organization. ^[15] The pride flag, news articles, and flyers for social events on this high school bulletin board represent the diverse support and advocacy purposes that GSAs serve. ...

Most student events are sponsored by the Union Board, the student organization in charge of the student union. In addition to hosting concerts throughout the Fall and Spring semesters, the Union Board organizes events such as pancake breakfasts at midnight, free Chic-Fil-A, movies, and Freshmen welcome events.

Fraternities and eating houses

The fraternity and eating house system at Davidson is known as Patterson Court and is governed by the Patterson Court Council.

Davidson has a self-selecting eating house system for female students. There are eight national fraternities, one NPHC sorority, and four local eating houses on campus. The houses included on Patterson Court are as follows:Kappa Alpha Order, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Phi Gamma Delta, Connor House, Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Warner Hall, Kappa Sigma, Black Student Coalition, Rusk House, Turner House, Alpha Kappa Alpha, and Alpha Phi Alpha. Approximately 65% of the female students and 38% of male students belong to a fraternity or an eating house.^[16] The National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc. ... The Kappa Alpha Order (KA) is a secret collegiate Order of Knights. ... Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity (ΠΚΑ) is an international, secret, social, Greek-letter, college fraternity. ... ΣΦΕ (Sigma Phi Epsilon), commonly nicknamed SigEp or S-P-E, is a social fraternity for male college students in the United States. ... Phi Gamma Delta (also known as FIJI) is a collegiate social fraternity with 116 chapters and 5 colonies across the United States and Canada. ... Phi Delta Theta (ΦΔΘ) is an international fraternity founded in 1848 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. ... Sigma Alpha Epsilon (ΣΑΕ) is a secret letter, social college fraternity. ... ΚΣ (Kappa Sigma) is an international fraternity with currently 234 chapters and 42 colonies in North America. ... Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΑΚΑ) Sorority, Incorporated, is the first Greek-letter organization established and incorporated by African-American college women. ... Alpha Phi Alpha (ΑΦΑ) is the first intercollegiate fraternity established by African Americans. ...

Royal Shakespeare Company Residencies

In 2002, the Royal Shakespeare Company performed William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in residency at Davidson College, which was the RSC's second residency at a US college or university. The performance inaugurated the Duke Family Performance Hall on the campus.^[17] In March 2005, the RSC returned to Davidson and was in residency for most of the month, performing The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, as well as numerous educational activities, many of which were open to the general public. In February 2006, their artists directed scenes from Shakespeare's plays and other theatric materials inspired by Shakespeare, called For Every Passion, Something, with Davidson students as actors. The productions Infinite Variety and For Every Passion Something were presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. In February 2007, the Royal Shakespeare Company performed Shakespeare's Pericles and The Winter's Tale, as well as Roy Williams's Days of Significance, in the Duke Family Performance Hall.^[18] In 2008, the RSC is to conduct educational programs, similar to those they presented in 2006.^[19] Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a British theatre company. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Portia and Shylock (1835) by Thomas Sully The Merchant of Venice is one of William Shakespeares best-known plays, written sometime between 1596 and 1598. ... The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy by William Shakespeare from early in his career. ... The Tragedy of Julius Cæsar, more commonly known simply as Julius Caesar, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare written in 1599. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Categories: Festival stubs | Edinburgh ... For other uses, see Edinburgh (disambiguation). ... This article is about the country. ... Title page of the 1611 quarto edition of the play Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a play written (at least in part) by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected plays despite some questions over its authorship. ... Florizel and Perdita by Charles Robert Leslie. ... Roy Williams is a British playwright, born in London in 1968. ...

Notable alumni

• Woodrow Wilson, United States President (1913-1921), attended Davidson College (1873-1874) (did not graduate)
• Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State (1961-1969)
• Kenneth B. Bell, Justice of the Florida Supreme Court
• Jim Hodges, Governor of South Carolina (1999-2003)
• James Holshouser, Governor of North Carolina (1973-1977)
• James G. Martin, Governor of North Carolina (1985-1993)
• John Spratt, United States Congressman (D-SC), ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, member of the House Armed Services Committee, and Assistant to the Democratic Leader of the House of Representatives
• Larry McDonald, former United States Congressman (D-GA); died 1983 when the Soviets shot down Korean Air Flight 007
• George Osborne, Conservative Member of Parliament and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom; studied at Davidson as a Dean Rusk Scholar^[20]
• William J. Haynes, II, General Counsel, U.S. Department of Defense
• Vincent Foster, Deputy White House Counsel in the Bill Clinton administration
• Kenneth L. Brown, US Ambassador to Ghana (1992-1995)
• Wyche Fowler, Jr., US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1996-2001)
• Paul B. Freeland, Presbyterian minister from Louisiana, genealogist, historian, philanthropist
• Joseph Robinson, oboist, Principal Oboe of the New York Philharmonic (1978-2005)
• Patricia Cornwell, author
• Tony Snow, former White House Press Secretary (2006-2007), former syndicated talk radio host and pundit featured on the Fox News Channel
• Bob Faw, NBC national news correspondent
• Leonidas L. Polk, American agrarian leader
• Lester Strong, Boston-area television news anchor; the first black man in the nation to join the Phi Delta Theta fraternity
• Anne Stanback, Executive Director, Love Makes a Family; Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame inductee
• Graham T. Allison, professor at Harvard and author of Essence of Decision (did not graduate)
• W. Kendrick Pritchett, Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley
• McKendree Long, artist, preacher, poet, gained recent national notoriety as "picture painter of the apocalypse"
• Charles Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
• Vereen Bell, journalist and author
• Kent Yogurty, lead singer of The Highway Pajamas
• William Styron, author; attended in 1942, dropped out to join the Marines
• Sheri Reynolds, author ^[21]
• Herb Jackson, contemporary artist
• Jana Sampson, singer^[22]
• Emily Carmody, professional dancer
• John Chidsey, CEO, Burger King, Inc.

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Recent News

On 19 March 2007, Davidson College announced that all students would have their demonstrated financial need met by grants and student employment; loans would no longer be a component of any Davidson financial aid package.^[23] Davidson became the first liberal arts college in the country to do so. On 7 June 2007, the Duke Endowment pledged $15,000,000 to support the initiative.^[24] is the 78th day of the year (79th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 158th day of the year (159th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... The Duke Endowment is a private foundation established in 1924 by industrialist and philanthropist James B. Duke. ...

On June 8, 2006, President Bobby Vagt announced his intention to retire at the end of the 2006-2007 academic year, and asked the Board of Trustees to form a search committee to seek his successor. The search concluded with the announcement on March 28, 2007 that Thomas W. Ross, a 1972 Davidson graduate and former state superior court judge, would become the seventeenth president of the College.^[25] Thomas W. Ross, Sr. ...

In early 2005, the College's Board of Trustees voted in a 31-5 decision to allow 20% of the board to be non-Christian. John Belk, the former mayor of Charlotte and one of the heirs of Belk Department Store, was a casualty of this decision, resigning in protest after more than six decades of affiliation with the college. Stephen Smith also resigned. Belk, however, continued his strong relationship with his alma mater, and was honored in March 2006 at the Tenth Anniversary Celebration of the Belk Scholarship. John Montgomery Belk (died 2007) was head of the Belk, Inc. ... Charlotte (also known as candle stick) is a figure skating grace move - one of the spirals, where the skater is bended and glides on its one leg with the other one lifted to the air. ... Belk, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, is the United States largest privately held department store chain. ...

History

Davidson College was founded in 1837 by The Concord Presbytery after purchasing 469 acres of land from William Lee Davidson II, whose father the college was named after. The first students graduated from Davidson in 1840 and received diplomas with the newly created college seal designed by Peter Stuart Ney, who is believed by some to be Napoleon's Marshal Ney.^[26]

In the 1850s, Davidson underwent financial troubles but was able to remain financially solvent by instituting "The Scholarship Plan" which allowed people to buy a scholarship to Davidson for $100 that could be redeemed for free tuition to Davidson at any point in the next 20 years. This plan generated necessary revenue to survive through the early 1850's. The college's financial situation improved dramatically in 1856 with a $250,000 donation by Maxwell Chambers, making Davidson the wealthiest college south of Princeton. The Chambers Building, which (through several stages of renovations) remains the main academic building on campus, was built to commemorate this gift. On November 28, 1921, the Chambers Building is destroyed in a fire, but is rebuilt 8 years later in nearly the same location with funds provided by a generous gift from the Rockefeller family.^[27]

In 1923, the Gamma chapter in North Carolina of Phi Beta Kappa was established at Davidson. Over 1500 men and 500 women have been initiated into Davidson's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.^[28]

In 1924, James Duke forms the Duke Endowment, which has provided millions of dollars to the college since then including a $15 million dollar pledge in 2007 to help eliminate student loans.

On May 5, 1972 the trustees voted to allow women to enroll at Davidson as degree students for the first time, although they were permitted to attend classes in earlier years. The first women actually attended classes at Davidson in the 1860's when President Kirkpatrick's 5 daughters attended classes to increase the size of the student body during the Civil War. Art major Marianna "Missy" Woodward ‘73 was the first woman to graduate from Davidson, as the only woman in a class of 217 students.^[29]

Presidents

• Robert Hall Morrison (1837-1841)
• Samuel Williamson (1841-1855)
• Drury Lacy (1855-1860)
• John Lycan Kirkpatrick (1860-1866)
• George Wilson McPhail (1866-1871)
• John Rennie Blake (1871-1877) - served as Chief Administrative Official for 6 years after President McPhail died in 1871, during which period there was no official president of the college
• Andrew Dousa Hepburn (1877-1885)
• Luthar McKinnon (1885-1888) - The first alumnus to serve as president
• John Bunyon Shearer (1888-1901)
• Henry Louis Smith (1901-1912) - Henry Smith and his students at Davidson are credited with producing one of the first (if not the first) X-ray photographs in the United States on January 12th and 13th 1901
• William Joseph Martin, Jr. (1912-1929)
• Walter Lee Lingle (1929-1941)
• Dr. John Rood Cunningham (1941-1958)
• David Grier Martin (1958-1968)
• Dr. Samuel Reid Spencer, Jr. (1968-1984)
• Dr. John Wells Kuykendall (1984-1997)
• Robert Fredrick Vagt (1997-2007)
• Thomas W. Ross (2007-present)

See also

• Davidson College Arboretum

Davidson College Arboretum (100 acres) is an arboretum located across the main campus of Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. ...

External links

• Davidson College
• Town of Davidson, North Carolina
• Princeton Review: Davidson College
• Time Magazine article: "Who needs Harvard?" (feature picture of Davidson College)

References