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The building where most science courses are taught

What is Dana?

100
The year Hollins was founded in

What is 1842?

100
The current president of Hollins

Who is Nancy Grey?

100

A day in the fall in which classes are cancelled and students climb up Tinker Mountain 

What is Tinker day?

200

The name of the library

What is the Wyndham-Robertson Library?

200

The initial name of the educational institution on this site

What is Valley Union Seminary?

200

The President of Hollins last year

Who is Pareena Lawrence?

200

A tradition in which senior students pop cider bottles and jump onto front quad

What is first step?

300

The building containing the Green Drawing Room

What is Main?

300

On the site of Hollins before the university

What is a health resort?

300

The first woman president of Hollins

Who is Matty Cocke?

300

Senior Hollins students decorate something at the front of Hollins campus

What is painting the rock?

400

An octagonal building

What is Botetourt?

400

The year Hollins became a women's-only institution 

What is 1852?

400

The President of Hollins in 1950

Who is John R. Everett?

400

Senior students and freshman or sophomore students collaborate to lead junior students through a series of tasks and funny activities

What is Ring Night?

500

The dorm Shelby lives in

What is Rathhaus?
500

The first building built specifically for Hollins

What is East?

500

The first president of Hollins

Who is Charles Lewis Cocke?

500

Faculty and administrators surprise students by singing favorite holiday songs outside the residence halls.

What is faculty caroling?