Bennie and Biff

This month in history (133 years ago)

A student tradition that began in 1860 and continued into the early 1900s involved the “burning” of mechanics, physics or mathematics, to mark the completion of a course. In March 1878 several hundred students, several blowing tin horns and many in costumes, marched to a campus ball ground where a platform and gallows had been erected, and the prisoner (physics) was “executed.” — From Anne Duderstadt’s “Photographic Saga of the University of Michigan”

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