This month in history (25 years ago)
In his Dec. 18, 1988, commencement address, Russian born Nobel Prize recipient and second U-M poet-in-residence Joseph Brodsky said, “Try not to set too much store by politicians, not so much because they are dumb or dishonest, which is more often than not the case, but because of the size of their job, which is too big even for the best among them. … All they or those can do, at best, is to diminish a social evil, not eradicate it.”
— Courtesy Bentley Historical Library
