From sermons, baseball, pristine pageants and promenades, Lafayette College has found no shortage of ways to mark its anniversaries over the past 140-plus years. First fests Despite the college’s...

“The ninth of May will ever be fondly cherished by every alumnus” of Lafayette College as its founding day, a recap of the college’s 1882 semi-centennial celebration reads. Wait, what? Between...

There are not many things that Tim Jarkow ‘27 is allowed to share about his recent initiation into Lafayette College’s chapter of fraternity Delta Tau Delta, but he is not exaggerating when he says...

Audrey Flack knew her sculpture of Adrienne de Noailles would be her last. The project was all-consuming: de Noailles, the wife of the Marquis de Lafayette, would wake her up in the middle of the night,...

Wedged into the pews of the chapel, the townsfolk sat transfixed as history came alive before their very eyes with the wave of the trained and diplomatic hand of the Marquis de Lafayette. “A man,...

With spikeball, musicians, local toddlers and all things students, the Quad is the hub of entertainment and social life at Lafayette College. But throughout the institution’s two centuries, it has not...

A year before its construction, Lafayette College trustee Fred Morgan Kirby had an idea for the inscription on a building to be named after him: “Every man has the inherent right to do as he will with...

Pardee Circle, the arts campus, several campus-wide energy saving methods: these elements of Lafayette College all came from the same source, the interdisciplinary course Technology Clinic, better known...

In 2025, Lafayette College students may associate their day-to-day lives with hanging out on the Quad, grabbing lunch in Farinon College Center and running to and from their classes in the plethora of...

When Lafayette College alumnus Samuel Martin Jordan 1895 embarked on a missionary appointment to Alborz College in Persia, now Iran, the following 41 years of involvement would capture the minds of the...

In an ever-changing technological environment, Lafayette College created an integrative engineering degree in 2019 to give students “the opportunity to study in interdisciplinary fields” and to intersect...

When moving through the halls of Pardee Hall, students are walking past history. In its first floor lobby, one can find a mural of the first English professor in America, a timeline of the first Black...