RELIC

noun. An object surviving from an earlier time, especially one of historical or sentimental interest; an artifact having interest by reason of its age or its association with the past.

Early Yearbook 1916

A copy of the 1916 Roanoke College yearbook, named after Wilhelm Röentgen, a German mechanical engineer and physicist, who, in 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röentgen rays. His achievement earned him the first Nobel Prize in physics in 1901. Interestingly, the precursor of the College’s Tri-Beta Biological Society was a somewhat tonguein-cheek group formed in the late ‘teens (1917–1919) and identified in the College yearbook as “The Röentgen Rays.”

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