I can honestly say that as long as I have been on Howard’s campus I still do not know some buildings by their correct names. I walk past so many buildings everyday but I never really paid attention to the significance of the names they were given. Dr. Benjamin’s lecture gave insight to why each building received the name they were given and spoke about the history of the university. I remember that one day a group of friends and I were walking from Drew Hall to McDonalds and we noticed a part of the building we were walking past seemed out of place. I asked why that one part looked so old and gloomy and someone told me that they preserved that part of the building because that is where Oliver Otis Howard lived. During the lecture I found out that the name of the mysterious building was Howard Hall (creative right?). I found out so many things that I didn’t know during the lecture like the fact that Zora Neale Hurston was the founder of the Hilltop Newspaper. I found out that the statue in front of Cramton Auditorium was a Greek statue called the Winged Victory of Samothrace and the crazy part about that is I never took the time to look at what I was sitting under. This campus has a rich history and I do feel like I haven’t taken the time to explore it like I should. Howard University has always just been a school to me and if I take the time to learn more about the university then maybe I will have more pride in it.
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