Old school: U-M in History

June 25, 2012

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On the trail of artifacts

This 1925 photo of Francis Kelsey with his wife Isabelle at Palermo, Sicily, en route to Carthage, is from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology exhibit “A Man of Many Parts: The Lifeand Legacy of Francis Willey Kelsey,” through Sept. 16. Photo courtesy Bentley Historical Library.

This month in history (133 years ago)

In his commencement remarks delivered June 26, 1879, U-M President James B. Angell said, “I shall be acting in completest harmony with the true spirit of Michigan if I employ the hour assigned me this morning in enforcing and illustrating this truth: That it is of vital importance, especially in a republic, that the higher education, as well as common school education, be accessible to the poor as well as to the rich.”
— Bentley Historical Library, U-M Commencement Addresses

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