(01-21-2014 10:20 AM)mturn017 Wrote:  "Old Dominion University derives its name from one of Virginia's state nicknames, "The Old Dominion", given to the state by King Charles II of England for remaining loyal to the crown during the English Civil War."

From Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Dominion_University

(01-21-2014 10:41 AM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote:  While I am very fond of the Monarchs nickname, a seafaring moniker might make more sense for our location.

(01-21-2014 10:42 AM)JustAnotherAustinOwl Wrote:  Named after William March Rice, the rich guy who left his fortune to start the university.

He was actually murdered, and if the plot, which involved a forged will, had succeeded, there would be no Rice University.

Oh, and the butler did it.

True story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Marsh_Rice

(01-21-2014 10:16 AM)49RFootballNow Wrote:  1946-49 Charlotte Center for the University of North Carolina
1949-65 Charlotte College
1965-today University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2024 - University of Charlotte

Pretty simple for us.

(01-21-2014 12:11 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  

(01-21-2014 12:32 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(01-21-2014 12:11 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  

For a very long time, Meridian was the largest city in the state. Not sure where it ranks now. I'm kinda surprised that Miss State and Ole Miss were put so close together.

(01-21-2014 10:42 AM)JustAnotherAustinOwl Wrote:  Named after William March Rice, the rich guy who left his fortune to start the university.

He was actually murdered, and if the plot, which involved a forged will, had succeeded, there would be no Rice University.

Oh, and the butler did it.

True story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Marsh_Rice

(01-21-2014 11:38 AM)wh49er Wrote:  

(01-21-2014 10:16 AM)49RFootballNow Wrote:  1946-49 Charlotte Center for the University of North Carolina
1949-65 Charlotte College
1965-today University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2024 - University of Charlotte

Pretty simple for us.

FTFY

(01-21-2014 10:13 AM)MU ATO Wrote:  Why is your school named what it is and what does it mean? I know some are obvious but others maybe not. Like Tulane? Old Dominion? Maybe some don't know why we're named Marshall?

(01-21-2014 01:23 PM)woodywoodrum Wrote:  

(01-21-2014 10:13 AM)MU ATO Wrote:  Why is your school named what it is and what does it mean? I know some are obvious but others maybe not. Like Tulane? Old Dominion? Maybe some don't know why we're named Marshall?

Well, since you didn't explain why Marshall is named Marshall...

Old Main, the administration building at Marshall University, stands on a site once known as Maple Grove. A small log building erected there in the early part of the 1800’s was called Mount Hebron Church – used by many denominations, near an area called Holderby's Landing, where merchants could trade and buy supplies between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati on the Ohio River.

Marshall traces its origin to 1837 when residents of the community of Guyandotte, then part of Virginia, and the farming region nearby turned their attention to providing better educational facilities for their sons and daughters. According to tradition, a group including James Holderby, William Buffington (one of Guyandotte's founders) and others met at the home of local lawyer John Laidley, planned their school, and named it Marshall Academy in honor of a friend of Laidley’s, the late Chief Justice of the United States, John Marshall, a patriot of the Revolutionalry War, who defined the Constitution between 1801-1835, when he died.

They chose Maple Grove, a wooden high ground above the landing, as the site for their school. It had been the site of a three-month subscription school as well as the church. It remained a subscription school for another term. $40 was paid to Holderby for the property.

On March 30, 1838, the Virginia General Assembly formally incorporated Marshall Academy. Its first full term was in 1838-1839. For decades the fledging school faced serious problems, most of them financial. The Civil War saw the school close in 1863 during the war. The property, and the school, were saved by a local resident and Laidley's daughter, Salina C. Mason, who paid $1,500. in taxes due. In 1867 the new state of West Virginia and the Legislature bought the property back from Mrs. Mason for $3,500. and then renewed the school’s vitality by creating the State Normal School of Marshall College to train teachers.

Collis P. Huntington came to the area to find a terminus for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, where travelers could board a steamship for Cincinnati. Originally targeting Guyandotte, he moved downstream eventually and founded the city in his name, Huntington, in 1871. Local legend says he was fined in Guyandotte for his horse entering the hotel he was staying in, and so Huntington headed down river to the landing.

The first President of Marshall College, Lawrence J. Corbly, 1896-1915, began real growth of the school, including athletic programs starting up around this time. In 1907, enrollment surpassed 1,000, and that year Marshall hired Boyd "Fox" Chambers as first coach of baseball, basketball and football and he led the programs forward. Marshall built the first additional building, Northcott Hall, in 1916, and the college stayed the State Normal School until it began confiring four-year degrees in 1920. Marshall built its first gym in 1921-22, saw all three athletic teams going on the new WSAZ Radio in 1927 and built Fairfield Stadium in 1928, adding lights the very next year and the Morrow Library in 1931.

Marshall became Marshall University in 1961, a deal cut with northern members of the Legislature who wanted to end the practice of bringing your own bottle to a bar, then buying mixers there, and instead were promoting "liquor by the drink." They agreed to support university status for Marshall. Both got what they wanted and Marshall University added a Med School in the 1970s, built the Cam Henderson Center (named for the inventor of the zone defense and fast break, who won the NAIA national championship in basketball in 1947, and coached the Herd to the second Tangerine Bowl on Jan. 1948), built a new state-of-the-art library in the last decade, is back to offering engineering degrees with two new building for biotech and applied engineering, has added a performing arts center, is building a new fine arts building in downtown, recently opened a new soccer facility, will add a indoor athletic center for all sports, with 120-yards of turf and 8-lane track with transitional sports medicine center and HOF center as part of that facility and has grown to about 13,000 students (part-time and full-time).

(01-21-2014 12:11 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote: