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2007 - 2008 Academic Year
Monmouth College believes that the responsibility to
develop and respect general conditions conducive to the freedom to teach
and learn is shared by all members of the College. Policies,
procedures, and expectations are designed to ensure this freedom and to
promote the meaningful, effective functioning of the Monmouth College
community.
The act of matriculation is a commitment to share
responsibility for the development of our collegial life as well as to
achieve personal academic objectives. Thus, students are encouraged
to participate with faculty and staff in the review, evaluation, and
formulation of regulations, standards, and procedures. The
development of effective social communities is one of the most pressing
issues of our time. The College community presents us with an
opportunity to work toward such a goal.
It is, therefore, the intent of the regulations and
procedures described to promote individual opportunity and freedom within
a context of responsibility to the Monmouth College community.
A History of
Monmouth College
Monmouth College is the only
college in the United States founded by Associate Reformed Presbyterians.
Begun in 1853 as a classical academy doing considerable college level
work, it became a full-fledged college in 1856 and received its college
charter on February 16, 1857. Like virtually all private colleges erected
in the U.S.A. before 1900, its main purpose was to prepare some young men
for the ministry and other young men and women for useful service to
society. Today, MC is a thriving liberal arts college that prepares young
men and women to be global leaders.
Monmouth College
Pipe Band
Of all the symbols of Monmouth College's Scottish heritage, probably
the most visible, colorful and noisiest is the
MC Pipe Band,
the bagpipe and drum band that performs at so many college functions and
off-campus events.
Alma Mater
A Flame of White and
Crimson is one of the most popular of Monmouth's songs, written
to meet a definite need. It suddenly occurred to the composer on the day
before the pep meeting for the Knox football game in 1924 that there was
"too much fireworks and no contrast." Inspired by a poem that she had read
in an old Ravelings, she hurriedly set to music her conception of
the alma mater. In the pep meeting the next day the song was sung by a
trio of Katherines - K. Laws Shauman, '28, K. Kruidenier Ramsdale, '25,
and K Dunnan Ludlow, '26 with a chorus of thirty women dressed in "white
and crimson."
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Song
A flame of White and Crimson
weaves mem'ry's shadow spell,
And a thousand hearts' devotion to the school we love so well.
Thy name means honor, loyalty and beauty.
Ever be
Thy strength, our strength and pride for aye.
Old Monmouth, Hail to thee!
College Colors
Red and White
Mascot: Fighting
Scots
Whenever you cheer on the Fighting Scots, hear the familiar wail of
bagpipes playing "Scotland the Brave," wear a tartan tie or otherwise
indulge in MC's rich Scottish heritage, you can thank Harold L. Hermann
'27.
It was Hermann,
working in the college's Alumni Relations and Sports Information offices in
the late 1920's and 1930's, who gave the MC athletic teams the Scots
nickname, chose the Menzies Plaid as the first college tartan, brought the first
bagpiper to campus, and reinforced a Scottish tradition that had been
largely forgotten. Hermann wrote that in 1928, the students
had chosen the nickname Bulldogs for the Monmouth College athletic teams.
"I was horrified,"
Hermann wrote. "I was aware of the rich Scotch background of the church
and the alumni. So I campaigned."
Hermann's job was
strategically positioned so he could campaign with the most effectiveness.
Since he handled sports information, he used Fighting Scots for the teams'
nickname instead of the Bulldogs, and the press gradually picked it up. As
alumni affairs director, he wrote about clans rather than classes in the
alumni news.
It wasn't long before
Hermann's work changed the Monmouth Bulldogs to the Monmouth Fighting
Scots.
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Updated:
July 18, 2007 |
