By April C. Armstrong *14

In this week’s installment of our recurring series, the campus is in mourning, an alum starts a new newspaper, and more.

September 14, 1821—Charleston’s City Gazette prints a letter from a writer from Princeton urging naval officers to collect “subjects of Natural History, which are so often met with on foreign coasts” in order to fill museum cabinets, like Robert F. Stockton has done for Princeton.

September 18, 1901—At Opening Exercises, president Francis Landey Patton acknowledges that students are beginning the year mourning William McKinley, and the mood is a bit different on campus than it would be otherwise.

September 16, 1980—University officials are investigating BB-gun shooting of six students during a recent blackout. One witness says, “I heard some people screaming that people were being shot by BB guns, but I didn’t believe it.”

September 20, 1881—J. Bonner Skinner, Class of 1881, publishes the first issue of the Hardy (Nebraska) Clipper, his new newspaper.

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