On this Day in NU History

August 2008 Archives

August 19, 2008

Aug. 19, 1879: Professor Henry Cohn opens a summer school of languages at the College.

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August 11, 2008

Aug. 11, 1853: NU Trustees purchase three hundred and eighty acres of land along the shoreline of Lake Michigan, future site of Northwestern University and much of Evanston.

Northwestern's Shoreline
Northwestern's Shoreline in the late 1800s
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August 3, 2008

Aug. 3, 1819: Clark T. Hinman, the first president of Northwestern University, is born.

President Hinman
President Hinman
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