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Monmouth College's new chaplain to give first campus sermon at Ash Wednesday service
Themes of connection and resurrection will be at the forefront at Monmouth College on Feb. 22, when the school's new chaplain, the Rev. Dr. John Huxtable '04, leads an ecumenical Ash Wednesday service. Open to the public, the half-hour service will b...
Feb 17, 2023, 11:08am EST
Monmouth College business and marketing students decide which Super Bowl LVII TV ads brought their 'A game,' which fell flat
Running television commercials during the Super Bowl is a highly calculated risk, and a group of Monmouth College students spent part of their Wednesday morning discussing which companies scored touchdowns and which ones fumbled "on the largest adverti...
Feb 16, 2023, 10:36am EST
Daughters of well-known Monmouth couple Bernie and Rosemary Bolon start scholarship to honor parents, support Monmouth College students
In the heyday of the Monmouth College Octopus Club - and when the legendary Bobby Woll was just a rookie head coach for the Fighting Scots - Bernie Bolon was a big man on campus. Bloon and his future wife, 1939 classmate Rosemary Field, were a popular ...
Feb 16, 2023, 9:14am EST
After 17-year journey, Monmouth College classics professor Bob Simmons celebrates his first book with 'amusement, relief, satisfaction'
Students who occasionally miss a deadline for an assignment will be pleased to know there is at least one Monmouth College professor who can lend a sympathetic ear. More than a year after he was granted a three-month deadline extension, Monmouth clas...
Feb 15, 2023, 2:53pm EST
Shorthanded Scots Fall at Cornell on Tuesday, Rematch Set for Next Friday
Apologies for the Wednesday morning send, MERIT was down Tuesday night after 10 pm. - The Monmouth College men's basketball team played short-handed in the regular-season finale and lost 80-75 at Cornell on Tuesday. The Fighting Scots (14-11, 10-6...
Feb 15, 2023, 10:25am EST
Women's Basketball Drops Season Finale at Cornell
The Monmouth College women's basketball team lost their season finale 66-55 at Cornell College on Tuesday night. The Fighting Scots (10-15, 6-10) were officially eliminated from Midwest Conference tournament contention with the loss to the third-place ...
Feb 14, 2023, 11:07pm EST
Monmouth College's 'Light This Candle Campaign' Smashes Its $75 Million Goal, Raises a Record $80.1 Million
Monmouth College has completed a record-setting campaign that will help set the College's course throughout the rest of the decade. The College's Light This Candle Campaign, which was launched publicly in March 2019, had a goal of raising $75 million ...
Feb 14, 2023, 5:00am EST
Scots Win 12 Events at Roger Haynes Invitational
The Monmouth College track and field teams had multiple winners in front of a boisterous home crowd at the first-ever Roger Haynes Invitational on Saturday. The men won seven individual events and swept the relays while the women won three events as mo...
Feb 11, 2023, 10:33pm EST
Scots Close in on MWC Touranment Berth with Saturday Win
The Monmouth College men's basketball team made 12 3-pointers to build an early lead before hanging on to win at Ripon 82-73 Saturday afternoon The Fighting Scots (14-10, 10-5) are back in second place in the Midwest Conference and assured of finishing...
Feb 11, 2023, 6:34pm EST
Wall Scores 17 but Scots Fall at Ripon
The Monmouth College women's basketball team fell to Ripon College 69-49 on Saturday. The Fighting Scots (10-14, 6-9) will wrap up the regular season on Tuesday at Cornell. Ripon got off to a hot start with an 8-0 lead before Lily Harlan (Washington, ...
Feb 11, 2023, 5:34pm EST