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Charles F. Creighton
President: 1888-1893

• 1887 marked history with the laying of Nebraska Wesleyan University’s first building, Old Main.
  
  
• Chief architect of the proposal to locate the new university in or near Lincoln, and author of the university’s bylaws.
  
  
• Key enforcer to save Nebraska Wesleyan when it was seen to be failing miserably in March 1888. He kept it alive and going.
  
  
• In 1888, a full-year’s tuition, plus incidentals, cost $42.
  
  
• Willard Sorority was founded in 1889 and is the nation’s oldest “local sorority” of continuous existence.
  
  
• In 1890, football was cancelled because it tended to arouse “ungentlemanly” conduct in students such as anger and swearing, however, did resume in 1908.
  
  
• First four students graduated from Wesleyan – all women – in 1890; Four men graduated in 1891.

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