During my days in Iowa, the Grinellians were downright Facists compared to
the folks in Iowa City!
Bill Pearce
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>
> In a message dated 1/4/2010 3:11:26 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> ultra-conservatives at Grinnell College
>
> I'm guessing those words have never been strung together before.
>
> Joel W.
>
> That does seem rather odd when talking about academia.
>
> The College dates from June 10, 1846, when a group of transplanted New
> Englanders with strong Congregational and social-reformer backgrounds
> organized
> as the Trustees of Iowa College. A few months later, Iowa joined the
> Union.
>
> The first 25 years of Grinnell's history saw a change in name and
> location. Iowa College moved farther west from Davenport, Iowa, to the
> town of
> Grinnell, named for an abolitionist minister, Josiah Bushnell Grinnell.
>
> Oh, I'm beginning to understand. <{B^) Bill Barber
>
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