Old school: U-M in History

December 13, 2010

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Holidays on campus

A group of students of modest means from Ironwood in the Upper Peninsula pose for a photo in 1911 in their rooming house. The students chose to remain on campus for the holiday season. On the back of the photo is written, “The jug contains cider.” — Courtesy Bentley Historical Library

This week in history (46 years ago)

IIn his Winter Commencement address in 1964, Judge Thurgood Marshall — who would become a U.S. Supreme Court justice in 1967 — said, “I address … you today with a single but a very sincere hope — to challenge you. I challenge you to become intellectually and personally involved in fulfilling the most noble promise of civilization, the promise that the human rights of every individual shall be secured.” — Courtesy Bentley Historical Library

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