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In the college's first years, it was characterized by a number of
domestic animals, one of which was Beautiful the Cat. According to Lanora Geissler
Lewis-Smith's Radford College: A Sentimental Chronicle Through Its First Half Century,
Beautiful
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"had become so accustomed to being researched in biology classes that
she submitted without a whimper. When she was buried in the rose garden, her death
received national attention because she was well known by the 11,000 students who had
passed through the college since its beginning in September 1913. The Baltimore Sun
noted that she 'gave an air of dignity not exceeded by a single professor,' that she made
the place homelike for many a homesick student, and that she served as a subject for
biological and physiological lectures and, with her offspring, became the basis for many
extended arguments on heredity." |
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