Davidson College

Playboy recently ranked Davidson as one of the nation’s most ‘male-friendly’ campuses.
Davidson used to be the wealthiest school south of Princeton—until the Civil War.
One side of Richardson dorm is slowly collapsing; just look at the identical cracks in each dorm room wall.
The building of Old Chambers burned down in 1921, but its ‘ghost’ remains—on dry spring days, the careful observer can see the old foundations pushing up through Chambers lawn.
President Woodrow Wilson attended one year of college at Davidson in 1873 before transferring to Princeton. Why’d he leave? Davidson was too hard.
Duke dormitory was built after Duke University lost a bet to Davidson over a basketball game in the 1950s. Angered, they constructed the building with halls that lead nowhere and windows in all the wrong places (it has since been renovated, but is still an architectural anomaly).
The library carpet is green because that color instills natural tranquility (the same reason the inside of baseball caps are often green). However, most Davidson students still feel it instills natural vomiting reflexes.