Principia College News
- Grafton housing plan goes nationwide (The Telegraph)
posted on July 29, 2010 at 02:48:03 am
GRAFTON - Giving away free lots if purchasers build a house garnered a plethora of national attention this week for this small river town. "We've had a splash of media coverage," Mayor Tom Thompson said. "I wish we could tell the New York Times it started here at home." - Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. (The Christian Science Monitor)
posted on July 23, 2010 at 10:43:52 am
How ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ helped to usher in the ’60s. - 97 Orchard (The Christian Science Monitor)
posted on July 1, 2010 at 10:13:52 am
How cuisine and culture collaborated to cook up an American identity. - TENNIS: Illini teammates battled for top prize at Simpson Open (The Telegraph)
posted on June 29, 2010 at 05:18:13 am
GODFREY — The 28th annual Bud Simpson Tennis Open featured an orange and blue hue the past weekend. It was more like the Illini Open. Marek Czerwinski and Bruno Abdelnour saw to that. - Things to Do in the River Bend (The Telegraph)
posted on May 29, 2010 at 01:04:26 pm
Entertainment schedules by venues or individual bands are welcome. Make sure to include times, dates and locations of performances, and admission prices and where to buy tickets, if applicable. - GRCS and Principia join forces again (The Telegraph)
posted on May 26, 2010 at 10:04:26 pm
ELSAH — Premier vocalists and musicians from Principia College and the Great Rivers Choral Society once again will come together to present an entertaining and free evening. - PHOTO: Picket painter (The Telegraph)
posted on May 2, 2010 at 10:04:25 pm
Jan Emmons of Principia College paints a picket fence on one of the college's immaculately kept properties along Mill Street in Elsah. A redbud tree blooms behind him. - CLAPPER & CONNER (Journal Inquirer)
posted on April 30, 2010 at 05:25:08 am
Robert and Kathy Clapper of South Windsor are pleased to announce the engagement of their son, Kristoffer Day Clapper, to Whitney Blake Conner of Grand Rapids, Mich., the daughter of the late Bill and Lynn Conner. - Freeport chief returns ring lost 38 years ago (The Facts)
posted on April 2, 2010 at 07:51:41 am
J. Andrew Kehe thought he would never see his Principia College class ring after it went missing from the college’s recreation center dressing room in 1972. - A watershed moment: Ringhausen brings service to historic church (The Telegraph)
posted on March 27, 2010 at 03:00:37 am
GODFREY - This year's recipient of the Madison County Urban League's Chairman's Award, Alley Ringhausen, not only has worked tirelessly to promote conservation but also to preserve and improve historic sites, building a stronger sense of community. - Ex-Partners Settle Dispute Over 'Nebraska Stories' (CBS4 Denver)
posted on March 18, 2010 at 05:15:46 pm
An Illinois man who put out a self-published book of stories about life on Nebraska farms and ranches agreed to pay an undisclosed sum of money to his former collaborator and to remove three disputed chapters from future reprints. Craig Savoye, a former writer for the Christian Science Monitor, also agreed to destroy unsold copies of his book, "Nebraska Stories: Tales of Cowboys, Ranchers and ... - The sad story behind 'Nebraska Stories' (Lincoln Journal Star)
posted on March 18, 2010 at 02:41:02 am
A former St. Louis-area professor who recently published a bookabout a cast of characters from the Nebraska Sandhills now findshimself accused of plagiarism. - Parolee charged with forgery (The Telegraph)
posted on March 12, 2010 at 02:45:27 am
ALTON - A parolee is facing a forgery charge after he allegedly stole four checks belonging to an area choral group and cashed them to the tune of $1,200. - Unemployed people crowd Canton job fair (The Canton Repository)
posted on March 11, 2010 at 06:56:24 pm
High unemployment was evident as job seekers crowded a job fair Thursday at the Stark County District Library. - The Marketplace of Ideas (The Christian Science Monitor)
posted on March 11, 2010 at 10:56:06 am
What’s wrong with the higher education system in the US and how can we fix it? - Albany grad member of four 1st place relay teams at Liberal Arts Championships (Stearns-Morrison Enterprise)
posted on March 6, 2010 at 06:40:06 pm
Rachel Bruns, a 2007 graduate of Albany Area High School, was a member of four relay teams that placed first at the Liberal Arts Championships, hosted by Principia College located in Elsah, Ill. - Bears fall in finals of National Indoor Championships (Student Life)
posted on February 24, 2010 at 06:30:01 am
After consecutive victories over No. 6 Johns Hopkins University (8-1) and No. 2 Emory University (5-4) to advance to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Indoor Championship finals, the No. 3 Washington University Bears fell to the No. 1 University of California, Santa Cruz, 6-2. - McM's Johnson, Perkins win conf. swim titles (Abilene Reporter-News)
posted on February 21, 2010 at 04:41:00 am
ELSAH, Ill. — McMurry finished with three event wins Saturday at the Liberal Arts Conference Swimming Championships as Erin Johnson won the 200-yard butterfly and Amber Perkins win the 1,650-yard freestyle.Final team standing from the meet, hosted by Principa College, were not reported.Perkins opened the final session of the meet at Principia College by swimming 18:04.98, lowering her time more ... - Bigger Tuition Bills and Student Loans Coming in 2011 (US News & World Report)
posted on February 18, 2010 at 04:21:35 pm
Dartmouth, Williams, and some other wealthy colleges will ask for more from students and parents. - Principia campus has new cell phone tower (The Telegraph)
posted on February 6, 2010 at 09:00:37 pm
ELSAH - Years after it first began the effort, Principia College finally has cell phone service, and that makes students like freshman Amanda Cartwright happy. - Area colleges: Men’s basketball: Eagles roll up 105 points (The State Journal-Register)
posted on January 29, 2010 at 06:02:59 am
The Robert Morris University Eagles shot 58.2 percent from the field and landed six players in double figures Thursday in a 105-89 victory over the Indiana University-Northwest RedHawks at Lincoln Land Community College. - How's the Monitor doing? Here's where to hear an update (The Christian Science Monitor)
posted on January 15, 2010 at 03:28:07 am
You can get an update on the Monitor and a view of global news from its correspondents during an 8 p.m. (CST) Friday audiocast. - Women push SLIAC run to 5-0 (The Webster University Journal)
posted on January 14, 2010 at 06:19:58 am
Webster University's women's basketball team eked out yet another conference victory in their final game of winter break, defeating Principia College 64-59 on Jan. 9. - Artist witnessing the world (The Telegraph)
posted on December 17, 2009 at 03:00:27 am
ALTON — Observing the world around him, often seeing things in a different light than the average person, translates into a source of artistic expression for James K. Schmidt. - Mustangs rally to defeat Principia (The Log Cabin Democrat)
posted on December 8, 2009 at 05:59:13 am
Central Baptist College improved to 8-3 Saturday with a 73-63 victory over NCAA Division III Principia College in Elsah, Ill. CBC shot 15 percent from 3-point range, which is way below their 43 percent that they are shooting for the season. - Prayer or inoculation? H1N1 is newest dilemma (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
posted on December 6, 2009 at 09:40:46 am
FEB. 26, 1985 -- Bert Grimes, a security guard at Principia College in Elsah, mans his post at the entrance of the college. Two students at the college, which is affiliated with the Christian Science church, died of measles in the three weeks before this photo was taken. - Bernard Maybeck and Berkeley’s Concrete Grid-Form Wall Panels (The Berkeley Daily Planet)
posted on December 3, 2009 at 05:37:16 pm
The Planet needs your help. Give to the Fund for Local Reporting! - CBC men defeat Crowley’s Ridge (The Log Cabin Democrat)
posted on December 3, 2009 at 03:14:14 am
The Central Baptist College men’s basketball team defeated Crowley’s Ridge College Tuesday night 96-72 at Reddin Fieldhouse. - Elsah's back pages (The Telegraph)
posted on November 17, 2009 at 06:15:27 am
Bev Bauser of Godfrey recalls taking Sunday drives to Elsah with her late father, Emmett L. Porter, the inspiration for her book, "Remembering Elsah." - Sports Articles (The Webster University Journal)
posted on November 12, 2009 at 09:19:28 pm
The day couldn't have gone any better for Tom Hart. Webster University's athletic director began Saturday, Nov. 7 at Greenville College for the first of three championship matches in a span of eight hours.