Mortar Board is a campus-wide honor society that recognizes college seniors for their achievements in scholarship, leadership, and service. It additionally seeks to create opportunities for continued leadership development and to promote service and to encourage lifelong contributions to the global community. Membership is offered to second-semester juniors in the top 35 percent of their … Continued

In fall 1926 the student newspaper, the Orange and White, announced it would sponsor a coed popularity contest. The military department had also been planning to pick “the most popular coed on The Hill” but joined instead with the Orange and White, voting to make the winner of that contest an honorary cadet colonel of … Continued

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Veritatem cognoscetis et veritas vos liberabit (Know the truth and the truth shall make you free) is the motto of the University of Tennessee. It is described as the motto in board of trustee minutes of 1891 when the seal of the university was approved, so it dates at least from 1891. The motto is … Continued

On October 7, 1931, the United States Geographic Board officially designated the fourth highest freestanding peak in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (6,417 feet above sea level) as Mount Chapman. It was named in honor of UT alumnus David Carpenter Chapman, member of the class of 1897. Chapman Prong and Chapman Lead are also … Continued

In 1947 the National Board of Geographic Names designated a mountain peak in the Chugach Mountain Range in Southeastern Alaska in honor of UT graduate David C. Witherspoon, class of 1894. Witherspoon served with the United States Geographical Survey from 1897 to 1920. Mount Witherspoon rises to an altitude of 12,030 feet. Vast snow fields … Continued

The annual Mountain Man March began in 2009 as a project of the Army ROTC to honor its graduate, 1st Lt. Frank Walkup, who was killed in action in Iraq on June 16, 2007. The event consists of a marathon (with full 35-pound pack, for ROTC participants) and concert, as well as exhibits. The Mountain … Continued

Mountcastle Park, a square block of land fronting on Lake Avenue and Mountcastle Street, was originally held in common by landowners whose property was adjacent to it. In 1972 a legislator called upon UT to clean and beautify the park, and the city responded that it was the owner of the park. In 1974 a … Continued

Aeron Glover, an engineering major, and Kaliv Parker, a finance major, won the national 2010 Movers & Changers competition, a national business pitch contest sponsored by mtvU and the New York Stock Exchange. Their prize was $25,000 in seed money for their project, website Howstheliving.com. The site allows students to rate housing options—from host family … Continued