Old School
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May 5, 2014
Puerto Rican leader
After graduating from the University of Michigan, Dr. Jose Celso Barbosa returned to Puerto Rico, practiced medicine, founded the pro-statehood Puerto Rican Republican Party and became known as the father of the Puerto Rican statehood movement.
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April 28, 2014
On the riverbank
Students gather near the Huron River in 1957.
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April 21, 2014
Opponents reunited
Former 1976 presidential contenders Jimmy Carter and U-M alumnus Gerald R. Ford participated in a 1983 conference at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library on North Campus.
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April 14, 2014
A president’s funeral
Crowds attend a funeral procession for former U-M President James Burrill Angell, on April 3, 1916, along State Street.
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April 7, 2014
The Cube
Not long after its installation in Regent’s Plaza, people file past artist Bernard (Tony) Rosenthal’s creation, The Cube, acquired by the university in 1968.
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March 31, 2014
Old School: Father Gabriel Richard statue, 1940
Father Gabriel Richard, a French priest assigned in 1798 to French-speaking Detroit, embraced the ideals of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, and was a force behind the founding of the University of Michigan in 1817.
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March 24, 2014
Ingalls Mall fountain sculpture
In his 1940 bronze sculpture “Sunday Morning in Deep Waters,” Carl Milles depicts Father Triton and his sons on a holiday excursion.
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March 17, 2014
Student Room, 1902
Students gather in the spring of 1902 at a room at 517 Washington St.
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February 24, 2014
Black history milestone
Alvin D. Loving in 1956 became the first African-American faculty member to teach University of Michigan students at UM-Flint. He later joined the Ann Arbor campus faculty and served as assistant dean of the School of Education.
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February 17, 2014
Opening ceremonies first
USA Hockey officials said former Wolverine Jack Johnson was the first-ever American National Hockey League player to participate in the opening ceremonies for an Olympics.
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