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  • A Question of Honor by Euzelian & Euepian Literary Societies of Hollins Institute

    A Question of Honor

    Euzelian & Euepian Literary Societies of Hollins Institute

    Article about having an organized honor system established at Hollins.

  • Discovering the Unexpected: the Margaret Wise Brown Collection at Wyndham Robertson Library, Hollins University by Beth S. Harris

    Discovering the Unexpected: the Margaret Wise Brown Collection at Wyndham Robertson Library, Hollins University

    Beth S. Harris

  • Freya at 100. by Ann Hackworth

    Freya at 100.

    Ann Hackworth

    Describes a student organization that has evolved over many years, from one that put on May Day pageants to one that embodies the ideals of Hollins and works anonymously to help the Hollins community.

  • I must and will survive: the Civil War-era diary of Virginia Daniel Woodroof, Class of 1866 by Beth S. Harris

    I must and will survive: the Civil War-era diary of Virginia Daniel Woodroof, Class of 1866

    Beth S. Harris

    Virginia Daniel Woodroof's diary covers many themes, including romantic love, duty to family and God, fear for those at war, college life, worry about the future, and the struggle to do the right thing. Virginia attended Hollins Institute 1864-1866. The diary covers February 1860 to October 1894..

  • John Rutherford Everett by Beth S. Harris

    John Rutherford Everett

    Beth S. Harris

    Biographical article on Hollins University's fourth president, John "Jack" Everett (1950-1961).

  • Lucy Winton McVitty Memorial Collection of Manuscripts, Incunabula, and Books Related to the History of Printing and the Study of Incunabula. by Hollins College and Fishburn Library (Hollins College)

    Lucy Winton McVitty Memorial Collection of Manuscripts, Incunabula, and Books Related to the History of Printing and the Study of Incunabula.

    Hollins College and Fishburn Library (Hollins College)

    The manuscripts, incunabula, and books related to printing and the study of incunabula entered in the catalog were presented to Hollins College in January, 1943, by Mr. Samuel Herbert McVitty of Ridgewood Farm, Salem, Virginia. The gift was presented in memory of the donor's wife, Lucy Winton McVitty, who was a trustee of the College from December 30, 1926, until her death on August 7, 1941.

  • Martha Louisa Cocke by Beth S. Harris

    Martha Louisa Cocke

    Beth S. Harris

    Article about Martha L. Cocke ("Miss Matty"), second president of Hollins University, alumna, faculty member, and daughter of Charles Lewis Cocke, founder of Hollins. As published in the Dictionary of Virginia Biography.

  • The Civil War in Southwest Virginia by Darlene Richardson

    The Civil War in Southwest Virginia

    Darlene Richardson

    Ellen Adair was a sweet, somewhat silly 17-year-old and well into her second year at Hollins Institute when one day in January 1863, with the Civil War showing no sign of ending anytime soon, her father unexpectedly showed up to take her home. Ellen’s idyllic days as a Hollins student were ending, and fate held cards it had yet to show. Diary entries from the period show the impact of war on a formerly quiet part of the state.

  • The Lasting Importance of Ephemera: What Scrapbooks, Diaries, Newspapers, and Receipts Tell Us About Life at Hollins During the Civil War. by Karen Adams

    The Lasting Importance of Ephemera: What Scrapbooks, Diaries, Newspapers, and Receipts Tell Us About Life at Hollins During the Civil War.

    Karen Adams

    The University Archives and Special Collections at Hollins University contain a rich collection of documents, from academic catalogs, newspapers, and diaries to receipts, scrapbooks, and other artifacts. Together they tell a story of life at Hollins during the Civil War.

  • The Twenty-first of February. by William H. Pleasants

    The Twenty-first of February.

    William H. Pleasants

    This essay, published in the 1899 Spinster, provides historical background about the bell that was on the premises in 1842. It was written by W. H. Pleasants, Professor of Latin, 1852-1912, and brother-in-law of Hollins founder Charles Lewis Cocke. The old bell now resides in the university archives.

 
 
 

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