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The appointment of professors Charles Elliott and Orange Nash Stoddard as hall residents was the predecessor by eighty years of the resident adviser system.
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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.
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In the 1830's Miami was the fourth largest college in the United States trailing only Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth.
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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.
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The official seal of Miami was adopted in 1826.
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The total cost of attending Miami during its first year was $93, including board, room, tuition, laundry, candles, and wood.
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The oldest building on the Miami campus is the DeWitt log cabin built in 1804.
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Oxford, Ohio is the first Oxford in North America.
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In 1920 Miami appointed the first Artist-in-Residence at a public institution, the poet Percy MacKaye.
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The first intercollegiate football game in the state of Ohio was played in 1888 between Miami and Cincinnati.
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In 1917 Miami played an eight-game schedule without a loss and outscored the opposition by 202-0.
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Arthur Wickenden headed the first Department of Religion on a public campus in America.
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Miami is one of the very few universities in the country with its own cemetery.
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In 1888 the Republican candidate for President, Benjamin Harrison, and the Democratic candidate's campaign manager, Calvin Brice, were both Miami graduates.
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In 1892 the Republican candidate for President was Benjamin Harrison and his Vice Presidential candidate was Whitelaw Reid; both were Miami graduates.
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Miami produced ten Union generals and three Confederate generals in the Civil War.
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In the 1850's there were five colleges in Oxford.
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