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100 Years Ago Today: Famous Goat, Long Dead, Butts In Again
Today’s article is so weird and chock full of its own history that I’m just going to transcribe it below since the newsprint, found here, is kind of hard to read. It’s a story about a college rivalry, a dead goat, and the riots that broke out because of it. From the Colorado Transcript on Continue reading
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100 Years Ago Today: Norlin Elected President of CU Boulder
Dr. George Norlin’s legacy as President of University of Colorado is primarily two-fold: 1. He expanded the campus to allow for the student body to grow from 1,500 to 5,000 by bringing on board architect Charles Z. Klauder to design 15 buildings over the course of 20 years. 2. He resisted the Ku Klux Klan Continue reading
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Local history enthusiast curious about how Colorado’s present is informed by the people and places of its past
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