Golden Fleece

The Order of the Golden Fleece was founded in 1904 at the suggestion of philosophy professor Horace Williams, who was worried that the university was becoming too factional. Williams, along with faculty members Edward Kidder Graham and Eben Alexander, wanted to promote service to the university. The...

Taylor Residence Hall

Opened in 2006, the new apartment-style dorm is part of the Ram Village Community on South Campus. The building is named for former chancellor Nelson Ferebee Taylor (class of 1942), who joined the School of Law faculty in 1968, soon moved into administration, and was named chancellor in 1972. It was...

Horton Residence Hall

Horton Residence Hall opened in 2002, one of four new dorms completed around the same time (Craige North, Koury, and Hardin were the others). The smaller dorms were an effort to bring more of a traditional campus feel to South Campus, which had been dominated by the high-rise dorms built in the 1960...

Howell Hall

Completed in 1906 to house the Department of Chemistry (which had been in Person Hall), this building was the first on campus to be funded by a direct appropriation from the state. When the chemistry department moved to Venable Hall in 1925, the building, which had been known as the Chemistry Buildi...