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4 unusual facts about dormitory


Bella Guerin

Being that Bella Guerin spent time teaching in Ballarat, the University of Ballarat honoured her by naming one of the two Mt Helen campus' Halls of Residence after her (the other being named after Peter Lalor, who led the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat)

Imperial College Radio

IC Radio was founded in November 1975 with the intention of broadcasting to the student halls of residence from a studio under Southside.

KMNR

Some MSM students, including Roger Beckman, fabricated a makeshift radio station in the dormitories which was unofficially called KMFA, these letters standing for the original four buildings in the Quadrangle residential complex: Kelly, McAnerney, Farrar, and Altman Hall (although it was also known by something else – Kool MF Association).

Singer Motors

The site of the Singer factory in Coventry is now occupied by Singer Hall, a hall of residence for Coventry University.


2013 Bengali blog blackout

Subrata Adhikari Shuvo, who is a masters student of the Bengali department at the University of Dhaka, was also arrested on the same day from his university dormitory.

Alex B. Mahood

He designed the Women's Dormitory at the West Virginia University in Morgantown, United States Steel Building in Gary, Skyway Drive-In Theater in Brush Fork, the Deco-Style Mercer County Courthouse (1930-1931) in Princeton and the Guyan Theater in Logan.

Apalit, Pampanga

Non-profit facilities like the hospital, transient homes, dormitory, orphanage, and tertiary institution La Verdad Christian College are also found within the compound.

Battle Ground Academy

They boarded in private homes until the first dormitory was built in 1922, changing BGA to a boarding and day school.

Benebikira Sisters

In 2008 the Benebikira opened a 350 room dormitory in Butare for women students at the National University of Rwanda, to provide safe, affordable housing so that more women could attend the University.

Blackridge, West Lothian

The last colliery closed in the late 1950s and Blackridge became a dormitory for nearby towns with, for much of the 1960s and 1970s, the British Leyland truck and tractor assembly plant at Bathgate the principal employer.

Christopher Holder

In 1909, Holder descendant Olivia Slocum Sage (the widow of Russell Sage) donated a dormitory at Princeton University, which was named in honor of Christopher Holder.

College Garden

The north side is formed by the great hall of Westminster School (originally the monks' dormitory), and the houses of the Abbey canons; the east and south sides are a mediaeval wall with a watergate which formerly opened into the River Thames, now embanked fifty yards away beyond the House of Lords.

Daegu National University of Education

:Because of School characteristic point that most of students are girl, Boy's dormitory is located out of Main Campus, with DNUE's Education Research and Training Institute at An-jirang, Nam-gu.

Demarest Hall

In the late 1990s and early 2000s a number of language studies sections were among the officially funded special interest sections of the dormitory including: French; Spanish; and Italian.

Elmer Grey

They also designed a dormitory and other structures for Claremont College and a master expansion plan for Pomona College.

Fryderyk Chopin University of Music

The University also has its own dormitory, Dziekanka, at 58/60 Krakowskie Przedmieście.

Gib Holgate

At the time of the 1940 United States Census, Holgate was living in McGill, White Pine County, Nevada, where he was living in a men's dormitory and working as a "surveyor helper" at a copper smelter.

Haut de la Garenne

St. Michael's Preparatory School leased a dormitory block for a time, and the headmaster proposed leasing the whole site for educational and sporting purposes.

History of the University of California, Berkeley

The army program took over Bowles Hall, a dormitory, and the naval program took over the International House, the Student Co-op Barrington Hall, and several fraternities for its trainees.

Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai

The popularity of Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai is not limited to Japan, in the Episode "Freshman Fear" of the A&E docu-drama reality television series Paranormal State, members of Penn State Paranormal Research Society play the Ancient Japanese Game of One Hundred Candles during their investigation of a supposed haunting in a student dormitory.

Internationales Kulturinstitut

In the summer months (July, August and September, however, accommodation is provided in Haus Salzburg, a student dormitory in Mariahilf.

John C. B. Ehringhaus

A dormitory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ehringhaus' alma mater (class of 1902) is named in his honor, and The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies, of which Ehringhaus was a member, maintains a portrait in his honor.

John Dustin Archbold

From 1893-1914, he contributed nearly $6,000,000 for eight buildings, including the full cost of the Archbold Stadium (opened 1907, demolished 1978; the Carrier Dome was built on this site), Sims Hall (men's dormitory, 1907), the Archbold Gymnasium (1909, nearly destroyed by fire in 1947, but still in use), and the oval athletic field.

John Joseph Bernet

Bernet very strongly encouraged John Carroll University to build a dormitory rather than a gymnasium and when the first dormitory on the university campus was completed in 1935, Bernet Hall was named in his honor.

John Wesley Johnson

His seventeen years as president saw great expansion of the University, including the construction of Villard Hall in 1886, and the dormitory (now Friendly Hall) in 1893.

Johnson C. Smith

After he died in 1919, his wife, Jane Berry Smith of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania gave funds to build a theological dormitory, a science hall, a teachers' cottage, and a memorial gate at the Biddle University, an historically black university in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Joseph Story

Story County, Iowa was named in his honor, as was Story Hall, a dormitory at Harvard Law School, and the DePaul University College of Law chapter of the legal fraternity, Phi Alpha Delta.

Kambala School

Frequented by the colonial artist Conrad Martens during the 1840s, extensively renovated by architect John Horbury Hunt in the 1880s, Tivoli features modern dormitory-style living amenities.

Kodaikanal International School

In the early months of the year 1900, a woman by the name of Margaret Eddy came to visit her son Sherwood (after whom Sherwood Dormitory is named), who was working as a missionary in Batlagundu.

Matthew Francis Brady

Bishop Brady High School in Concord as well as Brady Hall, a residential dormitory on the campus of Saint Anselm College are named in his honor.

Mimeo, Inc

Stewart, Delbridge and Uyttendaele first met on the second floor of their freshman dormitory at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Monastery of Pedralbes

The former dormitory houses a permanent exhibition of painters such as Rubens, Canaletto, Tintoretto, Velázquez and Beato Angelico (Virgin of the Humility, one of his masterworks).

Morrisville State College

Considered one of the most technologically advanced colleges in the nation (in the year 2001) for its ThinkPad program and wireless technology initiative, the college recently became the first in the nation to comprehensively replace all phones in residence halls with individual cellular phones for students.

Percy Bernard, 5th Earl of Bandon

In the summer of 1914 he and his twin brother were sent to St. Aubyns Preparatory School at Rottingdean, and four years later both boys entered the Orange dormitory at Wellington College where Percy was continually referred to as Bernard Minor incorrectly throughout his time at Wellington College.

Roosevelt, New Jersey

Due to unresolvable zoning issues for its dormitory and dining facilities, and local opposition to its presence, the yeshiva relocated to Monsey, New York after the yeshiva brought and lost several actions against the borough and certain individual borough officials in state and Federal courts.

Slamet Rijadi

Rijadi, who when not at sea lived in a dormitory near Gambir Station in Central Jakarta, occasionally met with underground resistance.

St. Ezekiel Moreno Dormitory

Ezekiel Moreno Dormitory is a facility of the St. Ezekiel Moreno Parish located in Macarascas, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, Philippines, under the supervision of the Daughters of Mary, Help of Christians or known as the Salesian Sisters.

St. Peter's Boys Senior Secondary School

This is the first house on the first floor of the old dormitory block.Porres house is named after Martin de Porres.

The Big U

The fictional campus' design is based on a BU dormitory, Warren Towers.

The Gordie Foundation

While a senior, Gordie mentored younger students as a Proctor in an underclass dormitory.

Thomas McKean

McKean County, Pennsylvania is named in his honor, as is Thomas McKean High School in New Castle County, also McKean Street in Philadelphia, and the McKean Hall dormitory at the University of Delaware.

Trealaw

Trealaw is a dormitory town of the more famous Tonypandy, its name translates from the Welsh language as 'the Town of Alaw', which derives from Alaw Goch or Alaw Coch (red melody), the bardic name of David (Dafydd) Williams (d. 1863) the father of Judge Gwilym Williams (1839–1906), who founded the village (along with that of Williamstown, a village to the south of Trealaw) during the 'coal-rush' of the 19th century.

Unite Grand Central

Unite Grand Central (also known as Grand Central or Grand Central Halls) is a large complex of privately owned student housing located next to Lime Street station in the centre of Liverpool, England.

University Džemal Bijedić of Mostar

Faculty of Civil Engineering University Džemal Bijedić of Mostar In first days of its existence, the Faculty organized its teaching process in the premises of Faculty of Economy and Law Faculty, and later it moved to Dule Mucibabic Dormitory.

Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum

After the Morgans' deaths, the house was rented for several years to Margaret Vanderbilt, then purchased in 1925 by W. Roscoe and Mary Minturn Bonsal who in turn sold the house in 1945, after which it served as a dormitory for Tanglewood music students, a summer hotel, the Michel Fokine Ballet Summer Camp, and community housing for the religious organization The Bible Speaks (now known as Greater Grace World Outreach).

Waterloo Co-operative Residence Incorporated

The dormitory divisions are Phillip North(A1/A2), Phillip South (A3/A4), and Hammar, and the apartment divisions are Carver, Clayfield, Kershaw, and B-Division.


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