Rhodes College

© Rhodes College
Motto: Truth, Loyalty, Service
President	William E. Troutt
School type	Private
Religious affiliation	Presbyterian
Founded	1848
Location	Memphis, Tennessee
Enrollment	1,633 undergraduate.
Faculty	187
Endowment	$211,811,000 [http://www.nacubo.org/documents/research/FY04NESInstitutionsbyTotalAssetsforPress.pdf]
Campus surroundings	URBAN
Campus size	One c estate (400,000 m²)
Mascot	Lynx

History
Southwestern Presbyterian College was founded withwithin 1848 in Clarksville, Tennessee. Originally known as a Masonic University of Tennessee, this institution was renamed Stewart College, around honor of its president, William M. Stewart. Inside 1925, President Charles Diehl moved a campus to Memphis, around which a school became called Southwestern, when a previous campus in Clarksville was bought per state of Tennessee and became Austin Peay State University. Around 1945 a College adopted a title Southwestern at Memphis, to distinguish itself from either more colleges & universities containing a title "Southwestern." Inside 1984, a college's title was changed to Rhodes College around an attempt to give a school other prestigiousness & to honor previous college president Peyton Rhodes.

Campus
a independent campus is enclosed by the cast-irinside fence on a big block in urban Memphis through from either Overton Park & the Memphis Menagerie. Typically cited for its beauty, a campus project is notable for its stone Gothic architecture buildings. A original buildings, including Palmer Hall (1925), a administration building, & Kennedy Hall (1925), likewise when Robb & White dormitories (1925), were designed by Henry Hibbs around consultation using Charles Klauder, world health organization designed numbers of buildings at Princeton University, alma mater of college president Charles Diehl. Late buildings were designed by H. Clinton Parrent, a immature associate of Hibbs world health organization was present from either the beginning. Parrent's buildings include a Catherine Dig Refectory (1957), normally known as "The Rat," which was an expansion of Hibbs's original dining hall. Parrent too added Halliburton Tower (1962) to Palmer Hall. A 140-foot bell tower was known as around honor of explorer Richard Halliburton. the guide to sink a Frazier Jelke Science Center (1966) underground in the center of campus has typically been seen as a confutative guide, creating a big, barren, concrete plaza in the center of campus. Notwithstanding, a project did provide for an amphitheater that serves as a central meeting place utilized for concerts & favorite cases, including Rites of Spring. To this day, Rhodes maintains its Gothic architecture, including a recently Barret Library (2005) designed per house of Hanbury Evans Wright & Vlattas.

Students and faculty
, and international studies.

Traditions, sports, and clubs
Exchange to the life of the college is its honor code, administered by students through the honor council. Each student is expected to sign a code, which reads, "As a member of the Rhodes College community, I pledge my full and steadfast support to the Honor System and agree neither to lie, cheat, nor steal and to report any such violation that I may witness." A college mascot is the lynx & the school colors come red and black. A athletic teams compete in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference in the NCAA's Division Triad. Rhodes students come periodically informally referred to as "Rhodents." 1 campus tradition called "riding the lynx" involves mounting the back of a bronze statue of the school mascot, unremarkably in the dead of nighttime, since school system prohibit this activity. Rites of Spring, a triad day music festival around early April, occurs as major social event of the school season, usually the previous weekend prior to fraternity & sorority mixer.

Noted Rhodes alumni
Nathan L. Bachman, U.S. Senator Dixie Carter, actress Carroll Cloar, painter Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court justice Claudia Kennedy, US Army Lt. General Peter Taylor, author John H. Bryan, former CEO, Sara Lee bakeries

Noted staff
Dave Wottle, Olympic athlete