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1943 OLLA PODRIDA WAS COMPILED AND PUBLISHED FOR THE SENIOR CLASS BY SCOTT M. HEATON. EDITOR AND CHARLES M. STONE, BUSINESS IMANAGER. OF THE JUNIOR CLASS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT
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7837 WESLEYAN It is the irony of the Liberal Arts College, that, preparing its students for peace, it is often forced to graduate them into a world of war. It was in 1825 that Captain Alden Partridge, a graduate of West Point, organized his American Lit- erary, Scientific, and Military Academy, including 300 cadets. When the school moved to Norwich, Vermont, in 1829, the Methodist Church had ahead; , l' I been looking for a suitable place to form a college. And so, in 1831, Wesleyan was founded, founded on ground which had already heard the sound of march- ing feet. The Civil War was the first major war through which Wesleyan passed. Some 133 students took part in that war, most of them fighting for the Union Army, and one of them serving as a Confederate general. The enrollment of the college dropped from 150 to 112 students, and the Chi Psi and Delta Upsilon fraterni- NX ties were forced to close their doors. In November, 1865, the Army and Navy Union was , formed, which promoted the raising of funds for the
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