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Blackburn, whose teams are known athletically as the Beavers, was a member of the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference from 1914 to 1923. Blackburn has fielded championship teams in men's basketball, women's basketball, football, men's golf, baseball, and quidditch. The men's golf team earned the most recent SLIAC championship in 2010.
blackburn college and the lovejoy tragedy: CARLINVILLE - Abolitionists were not in the mainstream of 1830s society in Illinois. But some of the early leaders of Blackburn College met the challenge ...
Blackburn has a long and proud history of athletic distinction. The college’s first athletic contest was a baseball game played against Illinois College on March 29, 1882. Blackburn students, so dedicated to athletics, built the college’s first campus gymnasium with their own hands in 1930.
Graduation photograph of Mary Hunter Austin, 1888. Mary Hunter Austin was born on September 9, 1868, in Carlinville, Illinois (the fourth of six children) to Susannah (née Graham) and George Hunter. She graduated from Blackburn College in 1888. Her family moved to California in the same year and established a homestead in the San Joaquin Valley.
Harold C. Kessinger was a newspaper editor and publisher, lecturer, and state legislator in Illinois. He was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives in 1914 and then the Illinois Senate in 1916, 1920, and 1924. He edited the Mid-West Review and published The Organized Farmer. [1] [2]
The St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference ( SLIAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference that competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III which is located in the Midwestern and Southern United States. There are 10 full member institutions as of the 2023–24 academic year.
Blackburn College is more than just another four-year institution. It’s your head start on everything else that follows. From academics to campus life to friends and community—our purpose is to help you prepare for life after college. Since 1837, our ideal student is “intelligent, forward-thinking, and forward-looking.”.
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