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re: Most Beautiful SEC Campus
Posted on 12/29/10 at 8:36 pm to memphisplaya
Posted on 12/29/10 at 8:36 pm to memphisplaya
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little history for you right there
Here is some history for you....
The names of University of Arkansas students, starting with the first senior class of 1876, are carved into one of the concrete walkways or sidewalks on campus. This tradition was started by the 1905 graduating class of students, who drew their names into the walkway in front of Old Main, the oldest building on campus. Following classes added their names for more than a decade and then the university took over responsibility for adding new classes, as well as adding the names of students who graduated prior to 1905. Through most of the 20th century, the names were impressed in wet cement using brass letters. As the campus grew, and the graduating classes got bigger, the operation became unduly time-consuming. In 1986, the university's physical plant developed a special machine called the "Senior Sand Hog" to engrave the thousands of names required each year.[44] School superstition states that it is bad luck to step on the Class of 1900; additionally it is said that if one steps on the name of the first graduating class, you will never graduate from the University of Arkansas.[citation needed]
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Posted on 12/29/10 at 8:38 pm to Hawgeye
Your buildings are still boring though
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