1774-1799
Sept. 1775: Samuel S. Smith wrote that HSC would pay "a more particular
Attention . . . to the Cultivation of the English Language than
is usually done in places of education."
1788: Founding of the Union Society, the first literary society |
![[ Samuel Stanhope Smith, Founding President of the College (bequest of Alfred A. Woodhall) ]](samuel_stanhope_smith.jpg) |
1800-1849
1805: Founding of the Philanthropic Society, the second literary society
1822-1830: New College, now Cushing
Hall, is built. It housed the entire college--classrooms, library,
student rooms, and faculty offices. |
![[ Philanthropic Hall ]](philanthropic_hall.jpg) |
1850-1899
1858: Establishment of Hampden Sidney Magazine, later known
as Garnette, now The Garnet
June 1882: Election of W. S. Currelll as the first professor to
teach "the English language and literature"
1893: First issue of Kaleidoscope |
![[ Hampden-Sydney Magazine ]](magazine.jpg) |
1900-1949
1936: Morton Hall, current home of the Department of English, is
built with funds from Samuel Packwood Morton, great-great-great grandson
of founding trustee Captain John Morton
1949: Leigh Hanes (`16)
becomes poet laureate of Virginia
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![[ Literature ]](literature.jpg) |
1994-1995: Renovation of and addition to Morton
Hall
1999: Glass Menagerie |
![[ Cover of the Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review (credit: Deborah McClintock) ]](poetry_review.jpg) |
2000-2049
2000: First film by Hampden-Sydney Sonneteers
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2000-2001
2000: Senior Dinner
Writing
Contest Winners
2001: Spring Capstone
Course
2005: Reading by Fiction Writing Contestants:
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