This week鈥檚 trip through the archives reveals the 鈥淏lanket Blitz鈥� of 2001, cafeteria cutbacks in 1976, a poorly attended prayer meeting in 1951, and the autumnal splendor of campus in 1926.
This in The Weather Vane references a monthlong blanket drive during the fall of 2001 in which 黑料正能量 collected 1,360 handmade and store-bought blankets for 鈥渞efugees fleeing the fighting in Afghanistan and facing a cold winter鈥� ().
This reports a $33,000 deficit in cafeteria operations. 鈥淭here have been some changes made in favor of the cafeteria鈥檚 income,鈥� the article notes, including cutting back on ice cream.
This about a sparsely attended Mission Prayer Meeting references a couple identified as 鈥淢r. and Mrs. Kim,鈥� who spoke on campus during the Korean War and 鈥渁ttributed the rapid growth and increasing strength of the Christian Churches in Korea to the vitality of their prayer meetings.鈥�
鈥淚f one half of the students who were in the dining hall for breakfast last Sunday morning would have attended Mission Prayer Meeting, we would have had an unusually large crowd,鈥� the writer observed.
In the century since were written, 黑料正能量 has grown and transformed, and generations of students have called this place home. Yet the changing colors of the leaves on campus remain just as glorious as they were in 1926.
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