Sore and blistered feet have become a badge of honor on the Evanston campus since 1975, the year Dance Marathon -- one of the largest student-run philanthropies in the country -- was launched at Northwestern.
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In the 1870s, some years before Northwestern played its first intercollegiate football game, many young men were part of a very different University team: the crew of the nationÞs first and only life-saving station manned by students.
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• A peaceful place on campus
• Adding 'a little pep and ginger'
• Assembling an elite library
• Behind the music: Northwestern Alma Mater and fight song
• Big Ten provided framework for intercollegiate competition
• Circumstances of the day deliver Observatory
• Despite fundamental change, tradition of Chapin Hall endures
• Dry for more than a century
• Herskovits provided vision for African study
• Higher education and basic training during wartime
• In war time Northwestern answered call, set up hospitals
• Looking for space, University turned eastward to the lake
• Northwestern Circus was one of University's greatest shows

• "Perpetual scholarships" provided early University funding
• Planning a university to serve the Northwest Territory
• Playing fields reflect evolution of intercollegiate athletics
• Professional schools prompted expansion to Chicago
• Residential colleges more than home away from home
• Rugged terrain becomes site of new University, community
• The deal that almost was: 'The Universities of Chicago'
• Turbulent time marked by campus rallies, sit-ins, violence
• Two years of roses: '49 and '96
• Undergraduate students can trace heritage to 1855
• University Hall: symbol of rich heritage, bright future
• Waa-Mu Northwestern's long-running version of Star Search