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Living Writers returns in 2025 with a lineup of nine events and 11 visiting writers. We are so lucky to welcome these folks to our village and campus, as well as to our online community where so many of y’all gather and keep Colgate’s reading culture going strong.We hope you’ll join us for Living Writers 2025 and take the chance to reconnect with the liberal arts spirit of reading, deep thinking, sustained attention, and conversation around shared texts. Expand your reading habits and join this community of readers looking to connect through books!Sign Up for the Aug. 25 Zoom KickoffKnow of someone else who might be interested? Feel free to share our email livingwriters@colgate.edu and sign-up link with them.Tom Standage is deputy

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The Founders' Day ceremony commemorates Colgate's historic origins, and welcomes the first-year class into the University's community of scholars.

Academics | Chapel House, Chapel House Library
Discover and share poetry alongside fellow poetry lovers.We have more than 100 collections of poetry, spanning cultures and centuries available to browse in our library (open 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday), including Maya Angelou, Ross Gay, Ḥāfiẓ, Langston Hughes, Mary Karr, Mary Oliver, Li Po, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rumi, and Kevin Young, to name just a few.You can share your new (or old!) favorites during monthly discussion meetings here on the last Wednesday of each month (12 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. on May 28, June 25, July 30, and August 27).Light refreshments will be served, or feel free to bring a vegetarian lunch.Drop in, call or email Chapel House Department Coordinator Joan McCarthy (315-228-7675; jmccarthy1@colgate.edu) for more information.

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