Although he may not technically have had the right to use the family seal, as a member of the Emerson family, Charles Wesley Emerson did display the arms and crest…
This is the first article in a three-part series about the history of the College’s seal. Emerson College’s striking seal has a history that goes back to 1535, when Ralf…
October is American Archives Month, and today the archives community is celebrating #AskAnArchivst Day. To observe this day, we are answering the most common question we receive: What does an…
Celebrating Halloween on campus is a tradition that started as early as 1932, when Sigma Delta Chi opened its social calendar with a Halloween Dance at its chapter house. It…
The Emerson College Archives and Special Collections was fortunate enough to add the Katherine D. Bourne Papers to its collections in 2017. They were a gift from Kay Bourne, who…
Emerson College was founded as a school of oratory, with a curriculum designed to teach students how to express themselves through speech and movement. The goal was to give them…
Emerson has a long tradition of providing fun and informational orientation programs for new and returning students. In the mid-1980s, events usually took place in September and included boat rides,…
In 1951, Coleman Bender was hired as a professor of speech at Emerson College. Having discovered a love of debate as an undergraduate at Pennsylvania University, he took on the…
In 1900, one of the most popular forms of public entertainment was the recital, in which an individual would single-handedly perform a play, musical, novel, or poem. At this time,…
