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King Library was named after Edgar Weld King. He was born in Berlin, Germany on December 24, 1893. After earning an A.B. degree at Oberlin College in 1916, King received a diploma from the Library School of New York University and a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University in 1922. That year, he was appointed librarian at Miami and served ...
Miami University's freshman retention rate is 89.2%, with 83% going on to graduate within six years. [62] Miami University is a college-sponsor of the National Merit Scholarship Program and sponsored 21 Merit Scholarship awards in 2020. In the 2020–2021 academic year, 28 freshman students were National Merit Scholars. [63]
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The statue was given to the university in 1920 by Samuel Spahr Laws, Miami class of 1848. Alumni Hall is also attributed as the inspiration behind Marian Boyd Havighurst's 1934 mystery novel, Murder in the Stacks and sequences from the film Little Man Tate , directed and starring Jodie Foster , were filmed within the rotunda for Alumni Hall.
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There had been no library at the college, which was founded in 1853, up until this time. The nearest library to the campus was Miami University’s library that sat adjacent to the college. In 1967 plans were drawn up to complete the construction of the library and the Western Board of Trustees established an Executive Committee to solicit ...
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Statue of William Holmes McGuffey outside McGuffey Hall.. William McGuffey was a Miami professor of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew from 1826–32, a professor of mental philosophy, philology, and general criticism at Miami from 1832–36, and author of the famed McGuffey Eclectic Readers, which were widely used in schools throughout the nation during the last half of the 19th century.