Some quick notes on The Hamline Plan Course of Instruction … Established in 1949, not the 1980s The Hamline University community is rife with incorrect oral history in need of correction. A prime example is the notion that the “Hamline Plan” was created in the 1980s. The fact is, the…
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Happy 162nd Birthday Hamline University!
On March 3, 1854, Minnesota’s Territorial Legislative Assembly approved An Act to Incorporate the Hamline University of Minnesota. Thus Hamline University was established as “an institution of learning for the education of youth of both sexes” – making it among the first dozen truly coeducational colleges in the United…
The Class of 1919
One hundred years ago – in September 1915 – Hamline University welcomed its largest first-year class to date. Dr. James S. King, professor of German, penned a prosaic tribute to the future class of 1919 in the October 1915 edition of the Alumni Quarterly. “The Hamline family has received this…
“To add a glory … To the common life” – Nineteenth Century Methodism and Women’s Collegiate Education
Did you know that the first women in Minnesota to earn college degrees were Methodist Episcopal women who used their education for lives of service and social justice? In this video lecture, I discuss Methodist Episcopal attitudes toward women and collegiate education, especially as they took shape among those living…