American University - Talon / Aucola Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Lucius Charles Clark, first Chancellor, American Uni- versity, founder of College of Liberal Arts, 1930. Dr. Hurst R. Anderson, Presi- dent, American University, 1965. Hurst Hall, 1915. American was not to become a school for undergraduates until ten years after its opening. It was in that year, 1925, American changed a mass of buildings into a full college system. The year saw the first issue of the Eagle. the school newspaper, and the aucola, the yearbook, taking its name from the American University College Of Liberal Arts. Also in 1925, American played its first football game. On November 5, the Eagles went up against George Washington, the final score: American — G. W. U. — 55. At the end of the school year American had its first commencement. One man and four women made up the first alumni. By the second year the enrollment had doubled. A total of 134 students, 18 states, 4 countries and 12 religions were represented, (as compared with 50 states, 80 countries and over 35 religions which are presently represented.) Battelle Memorial Library, 1930. ■iadM

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Proposed campus layout, 1920. Since that time, American has grown into a complete university with its program ranging from art to theology. In his commencement address, on June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy said: This is a young and growing university ... by sponsoring this institution of higher learning for all who wish to learn, whatever their color or their creed, the Methodists of this area and the nation deserve the nation ' s thanks. In the first Eagle an editorial said: We must keep brightly glowing the torch which we are to pass on. This is part of the debt we owe American to keep alive and pass on the history and traditions to the successive classes at American University.