A. No. After spending some time with reference books and a calculator, I believe that our youngest president was our third, William Louis DuBourg, S.S., who was appointed in 1796 at the age of 30. It is also DuBourg whom we have to thank for establishing the University Library with a gift of 100 volumes from his private library. Of our 47 presidents to date, 22 have been 44 or younger when they assumed office.

Q. What were the earliest sporting activities on campus?

A. Documentary evidence of athletics is first found in account books from 1798, which record the arrival of two fencing masters. Our first capital expenditure for athletics seems to have come in 1814 when a handball court was constructed, at a cost of $800, close to what is now the main entrance of the Healy Building. Team sports did not emerge until after the Civil War.

Q. Have any GU graduates won a Nobel Prize?

A. It does not appear so. However, we have awarded honorary degrees to at least eleven Nobel Laureates: Christian Anfinsen (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1972); Oscar Arias-Sanchez (Peace, 1987); John Bardeen (Physics, 1972); William Fowler (Physics, 1983); Corneille Heymans (Physiology/Medicine, 1938); Frank B. Kellogg (Peace, 1929); Barbara McClintock (Physiology/Medicine, 1983); Mohamed Anwar el Sadat (Peace, 1978); Glenn Seaborg (Chemistry, 1951); Mother Teresa (Peace, 1979); and Elie Wiesel (Peace, 1986). A twelfth Laureate, Robert Richardson ( Physics, 1996), has a somewhat different Georgetown connection - he was born in the University Hospital.