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After passing a series of exams that summer to qualify him to enter college (he was a few credits shy of graduating from high school), Owens started classes at OSU in the fall of 1933. At the time of Owens’ matriculation, The Ohio State University had only one men’s dorm, and Owens was barred from it because of his race.
- Family
Gloria and Marlene both later attended Ohio State, and...
- Bibliography
The Ohio State University Archives. Jesse Owens Collection –...
- Collection Inventory
Finding Aid and Collection Inventory. The Jesse Owens...
- Owens' Story
The materials on this Website have been made available for...
- Legacy
After a whirlwind of post-Olympic promotional activities and...
- Timeline
1910. 1913: [September 12] Mary Emma Owens gives birth to...
- Growing Up
In the spring of 1933, his last in high school, he placed...
- Jesse Owens Photographs
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- Setting The Curriculum
- Opening Day and The First Years
- State Support
- Renaming The College
For much of the University’s first decade, the Board of Trustees and the faculty of the new college grappled with its mission. In the face of powerful lobbies and countervailing public sentiment, the Board established a liberal arts curriculum for the new college. Governor Rutherford B. Hayes pointed the Board to the Morrill Act’s flexible language...
In one of the few newspaper accounts of the College’s opening day, the Columbus Dispatchsummarized its birth: “They say a small beginning makes a good ending.” Forty students applied to be admitted to the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College when it opened its doors on September 17, 1873. Twenty-four of them, including two women, were accepted;...
The State of Ohio, which had created Ohio A&M, hesitated to support it. The legislature regarded the land-grant as a one-time payment, and disowned the necessity of perpetual care and stewardship of the fledgling institution. Since tuition was free, increasing enrollment increased expenses without increasing revenue. The College essentially ran on ...
On May 1, 1878, the state legislature officially renamed Ohio A&M The Ohio State University. President Orton had lobbied for a name change since 1875, arguing that the institution’s name should declare its dedication to “practical scientific training,” but felt the State’s rechristening amounted to wishful thinking. Still known to most Ohioans as “...
From the moment two dozen young men and women entered the new college’s single building – dormitory, lecture hall, laboratory – to the first graduates’ departure, the Ohio State University was a fledgling, a promise more than a fact.
- George Washington. School: Never attended college. George Washington's education is a bit contested. Some sources say he never went to college, while others say he enrolled for a time at the College of William and Mary.
- John Adams. School: Harvard College (undergraduate) John Adams started the legacy of Harvard alumni-turned-presidents, which still continues today. He attended from 1751 to 1755.
- Thomas Jefferson. School: College of William and Mary (undergraduate) Thomas Jefferson enrolled at the College of William and Mary when he was 17. He graduated after two years and went on to study law with his legal mentor George Wythe.
- James Madison. School: Princeton University (undergraduate) Due to poor health, James Madison had to wait two years before heading to college. When he did eventually attend in 1769, he enrolled at what was then the College of New Jersey—now Princeton—and studied a full range of subjects.
Born in the despair of the Great Depression, the Ohio State University School grew to preeminence during the American progressive school movement launched by legendary education philosopher John Dewey.
Nov 15, 2023 · Almost 300 alumni wrote to Ohio State Alumni Magazine to say why they decided this was the right school for them. Here are a baker’s dozen of the answers.
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Quick facts. Print. Email. A little bit about us … Established in 1870 (we go way back!) First graduating class: 1878. Locations: Largest campus in Columbus. Ohio residents may attend regional campuses in Lima, Mansfield, Marion and Newark, or Ohio State's Agricultural Technical Institute in Wooster. Our BELOVED school mascot: Brutus Buckeye.
