Building Tomorrow Together: Adelphi Celebrates 125 Years
By Katie Farkas Current Adelphi students may not be aware that our university is 125 years old this year. Adelphi began as a private preparatory school in Brooklyn in 1863 and the institution quickly gained a reputation for its innovative curriculum. Charles H. Levermore (for whom Levermore Hall is named), who was the head of the Academy in 1893, realized the city did not have a liberal arts college and took that opportunity to establish Adelphi College. It became an official