SLU History
The first class to graduate from the College of Letters and Science numbers two
women, Sarah Sprague and Mary Herrick.
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Richmond Fisk, second president of St. Lawrence, adds a short-lived law curriculum.
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Herring Library, the campus’s second building, is erected.
Tree
Holiday is initiated as a spring day off from classes to allow
students and faculty to transplant trees to campus. It evolves into
Moving-Up Day.
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The Athletic Association is organized, hosts first Field Day exercises.
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Absalom Graves Gaines begins the second longest presidency in the history of
the institution.
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World
History
The American Civil War ends, President Lincoln
is assassinated, and a 12-year Era of Reconstruction begins
in the South with state legislatures run by “carpetbaggers” and “scalawags.”
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Ulysses S. Grant elected President
of U.S. |
The American Suffrage
Association is founded by Susan B. Anthony, 49, who breaks with the
3-year-old American Equal Rights Association to campaign and lecture
on the need for a Constitutional amendment that will give U.S. women the right
to vote.
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Journalist H. Stanley finds explorer David Livingston in Africa. |
Color photographs
first developed
Republic proclaimed in Spain
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