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Interesting Facts
- The appointment of professors
Charles Elliott and Orange Nash Stoddard as
hall residents was the predecessor by eighty
years of the resident adviser system.
- Miami is known as the "Mother
of Fraternities", with the Miami Triad
Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Theta, and Sigma
Chi being founded in Oxford.
- In the 1830's Miami was the
fourth largest college in the United States
trailing only Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth.
- William Holmes McGuffey, whose readers
sold over 130 million copies, received only
$1,000 and a ham every Christmas for sales
of his readers. Only the Holy Bible has had
greater sales.
- The official seal
of Miami was adopted in 1826.
- The total cost of attending Miami during
its first year was $93, including board, room,
tuition, laundry, candles, and wood.
- The oldest building on the Miami campus
is the DeWitt log cabin built in 1804.
- Oxford, Ohio is the first Oxford in North
America.
- In 1920 Miami appointed the first Artist-in-Residence
at a public institution, the poet Percy MacKaye.
- The first intercollegiate football game
in the state of Ohio was played in 1888 between
Miami and Cincinnati.
- In 1917 Miami played an eight-game schedule
without a loss and outscored the opposition
by 202-0.
- Arthur Wickenden headed the first Department
of Religion on a public campus in America.
- Miami is one of the very few universities
in the country with its own cemetery.
- In 1888 the Republican candidate for President,
Benjamin Harrison, and the Democratic candidate's
campaign manager, Calvin Brice, were both
Miami graduates.
- In 1892 the Republican candidate for President
was Benjamin Harrison and his Vice Presidential
candidate was Whitelaw Reid; both were Miami
graduates.
- Miami produced ten Union generals and
three Confederate generals in the Civil War.
- In the 1850's there were five colleges
in Oxford.
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If you are interested in reading more about Miami
History we recommend the following books.
Miami University: A Personal History
by Dr. Phillip Shriver
Miami Years
by Walter Havighurst
Men of Old Miami
by Walter Havighurst
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