Eastern’s Dr. David Bradstreet remembers growing up when John Glenn was a household name. Glenn was among America’s “space-age” heroes of the 1950s and 1960s. During the Cold War’s space race, he gained international fame for being the first American to orbit the earth. He instantly became America’s heroic “Daniel Boone” of […]
Legendary Astronaut John Glenn Laid to Rest at Arlington National Cemetery Read Post »
EASTERN SET TO LAUNCH FOOTBALL PROGRAM by Anthony Barr and Jordan Kolb [media-credit name=”Google Images/The Waltonian” align=”alignleft” width=”260″][/media-credit] Last week, Eastern announced that on April 1 it will launch a new plan to develop a football program. Recruiting for the upcoming school year is already underway, and the program is expected to
“In the days before iron ships, the internal combustible engine and elaborate machinery, there were iron men in wooden ships.” So said my great-great grandfather, Boatswains Mate Philip Hoffman of the United States Navy. Philip was in the last generation of men to be in the all-wooden ship navy. He knew the
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Pulitzer-Prize winner Dr. Walter McDougall was invited by Agora Institute to speak at Eastern University on Wednesday, Feb. 15 and by the Templeton Honors College to speak at their weekly Honors Forum on Friday, Feb. 17. McDougall is currently Professor of History and Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations at the University of
Pulitzer Winner Dr. Walter McDougall Visits EU Read Post »
[nine things a blanket can be] Ruby Baker one. a blanket can be a starting line to a long race folded and laid out on the floor the first item my parents ever bought together it was a testament to seven years of love between them two. a blanket can be a cape knotted in
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On Monday Feb. 6, 2017 Eastern University President Dr. Robert Duffett announced that there would be both a staffing and spending freeze imposed on Eastern, effective immediately. This is due to Eastern being an approximate $1.5 million behind budget projections for the current fiscal year. Eastern’s budget for each fiscal year (July 1–June
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David Knickerbocker Boyd, architect of the Walton Estate, the present site of the main St. Davids campus of Eastern University, remarked that “good architecture tells its own story.” He did not have to defend his work, for he believed that it had universal appeal. This appeal remains to this day, as many Eastern
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American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said that “the creation of beauty is art.” Beauty may be found in any one of the arts featured at Eastern University, which include music, dance, theater and the fine arts. Over the years, Eastern has been blessed with talented professors in the arts, such as Elizabeth Simmons,
Building a Civilization- Majoring and minoring in the arts at Eastern Read Post »
On Jan. 10, Jeff Groff, the Estate Historian at Winterthur, delivered a lecture on the 19th and 20th centuries of the Main Line at the Radnor Fire House. Entitled “More English than England,” Groff argued that the Main Liners of the “Gilded Age” not only attempted to transplant English culture and architecture to
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On Saturday, Nov. 20, the Radnor and Tredyffrin Easttown Historical Societies will be cosponsoring a special presentation on two Mainline architects who played intricate roles in the development of the local area. During the 1880s, architects Newton B. Culver and T. Mellon Rogers formed a partnership that would be responsible for the building
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