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Baldwin the Eagle, an anthropomorphized bald eagle, is the mascot of the Boston College Eagles.. The nickname "Eagles" goes back to 1920 when Rev. Edward McLaughlin, unhappy at seeing a newspaper cartoon which represented Boston College as a cat after a track victory, wrote to the college newspaper The Heights: [1]
Shasta V (1980–1989) was the last female cougar of the original continuous line to serve as a live mascot for the University of Houston. After a kidney failure, she was euthanized. After Shasta V, interim President George Magner ended the tradition of a live mascot at the university, until 2012.
The Eagle nickname and mascot for Boston College's teams were given by Rev. Edward McLaughlin. Fr. McLaughlin, incensed at a Boston newspaper cartoon depicting the champion BC track team as a cat licking clean a plate of its rivals, penned a passionate letter to the student newspaper, The Heights, in the newspaper's first year in 1920.
[1] [2] The educational, STEAM based, fully interactive museum opened December 26, 2018. [3] On July 22, 2024, the hall of fame announced that the Whiting, Indiana museum will close on September 14 of this year. In addition, the organization will continue online and are actively searching for a new location to host the museum. [4]
A pair of cougar cubs found alone by a rancher in Washington have settled into their new home in Texas, the Houston Zoo said.Named Shasta VII and Louie, the two male cougars were found orphaned at ...
In September 2016, the museum relocated to 2101 Commonwealth Avenue on Boston College's Brighton Campus. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The new facility features nearly two times the exhibition space of its previous location in Devlin Hall, state-of-the art lighting, movable walls, humidity and climate control, and extensive storage for the museum's growing ...
Rhiannan Iffland stepped to the edge of a platform nearly seven stories above Boston Harbor, thousands of cheering fans packed onto docks, roofs and sidewalks below, and soared through the air ...
Vincent Phillip Muñoz (MA 1995), Tocqueville Associate Professor of Religion & Public Life in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame [1] Thomas P. O'Malley, SJ, 1951, former president, John Carroll and Loyola Marymount universities; Michael P. Walsh, SJ, 1929, former president, Boston College and Fordham University