According to a university historian, Guerry agreed to come to Sewanee only if the school stopped awarding athletic scholarships.

Hourani trained more academic historians of the modern Middle East than any other university historian of his generation.

In addition, he served the role of university historian.

It was titled the 55-Year Professor and was the first in a series of anecdotes from the university's past written by the university historian.

Between 1919 and 1921 the Soviet state was created out of chaos by armed force, this timely and thorough account by a university historian reminds us.

It also happened 100 years earlier, university historians say.

"It is extraordinary," said Thomas H. O'Connor, the university historian at Boston College.

Other university historians and history teachers from public elementary and high schools were on the panel.

But even with the savviest of athletic directors, Rutgers could have trouble making money on sports because of its location, said Richard McCormick, the university historian.

In 1979 he was named university historian.