Fridays with Fred: President Chapin dodges “doughy bullets”
Take a look at the earliest known photo of Beloit and a short story from that period.
At center, Middle College (1847) included administrative offices, classrooms and in its fourth floor attic, student living quarters. Just visible to the right is North College, known today as Campbell Hall, which served as dormitory and boarding club, the site of a notorious food fight in which students pelted President Aaron Lucius Chapin with inedible biscuits, described by George L. Collie, class of 1881, as “doughy bullets.” The rail fence surrounding the campus provided protection from marauding livestock taking a shortcut on their way to market in downtown Beloit.