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"Wave the Old Gold" is a series of newspaper columns about the history of what is now Emporia State University. The name "Wave the Old Gold" is taken from the title of a song that served as an alma mater, or school song, in the early years of the institution.

09/15/03 | Normal graduates on the frontier

07/03/03 | July 5, 1880: The day The General came to Emporia

04/23/03 | Spring at the Normal

04/09/03 | ESU alumni have a rich tradition of military service

02/26/03 | An Emporian Tells of the Lincoln Nomination in 1860

02/04/03 | Lyman Beecher Kellogg observes Founder's Day, 1902

12/04/02 | School president speaks on pioneer hardship in Kansas

11/07/02 | Armistice Day: November 11, 1919

10/17/02 | Columbus Day, 1892

09/25/02 | ‘The soldiers of today don’t know what war is’

09/10/02 | An 1886 freshman writes about her first semester

03/25/02 | Nettie Gorham and Henry Norton and women's suffrage

02/27/02 | Lecture commemorates lives of Kellogg, White

02/12/02 | Mary Clapp - First Woman Regent in Kansas

12/01/01 | Kansas schools: Christmas 1865

11/06/01 | KSN alum Fawcett leaves legacy

10/05/01 | ESU's roots trace back to Eskridge

08/20/01 | ESU's famous Gilson "just taught school"

07/24/01 | Abigail Morse recalls raid of Lawrence

Last Updated July 2, 2007