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A lithograph of Lafayette College, c. 1875 South College, one of Lafayette's largest residence halls, housing approximately 220 students in a coeducational setting. A group of Easton, Pennsylvania residents, led by James Madison Porter, son of General Andrew Porter of Norristown, Pennsylvania, met on December 27, 1824, at White's Tavern to discuss founding a college in town. [13]
Lafayette, the last holdout with no athletic scholarships, began granting full rides in basketball and other sports with freshmen entering the school in the fall of 2006. Most Patriot League schools do not give athletic scholarships in a number of sports, and Bucknell only granted them in basketball prior to the addition of football ...
U.S. News & World Report statistics provide information on acceptance rates, tuition and more. Here's what they say about WNC colleges.
Ivy-Plus admissions rates vary with the income of the students' parents, with the acceptance rate of the top 0.1% income percentile being almost twice as much as other students. [232] While many "elite" colleges intend to improve socioeconomic diversity by admitting poorer students, they may have economic incentives not to do so.
The ninth win of 2024 came on Nov. 2, with 47-10 rout of Michigan State. Indiana would add two more wins to earn an at-large berth to the College Football Playoff and complete the greatest regular ...
The 2023–24 Lafayette Leopards men's basketball team represented Lafayette College during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Leopards, led by first-year head coach Mike McGarvey , played their home games at the Kirby Sports Center located in Easton, Pennsylvania as members of the Patriot League .
Men's college basketball: Morehead State (0-1) vs. Purdue (1-0) 7 p.m.: No. 3 ranked Purdue cruised to an easy 98-45 victory in its season opener against Sanford.
The Lafayette team of 1883 General Peyton C. March, Class of 1884, the U.S. Army Chief of Staff following World War I, was a fullback on Lafayette's first football team; he is the son of Francis A. March, who originated the study of English in academia. 'Rugby' football was first introduced on College Hill in the fall of 1880 by Theodore H. Welles.