Old School
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April 11, 2016
Flower power
Since the late 1920s, visiting the Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden has become an annual spring pilgrimage for visitors from Michigan and beyond.
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April 4, 2016
Visionary donors
In 1924, construction workers neared completion on the Law Quad. Philanthropy has been critical to the university’s growth and impact from its first days. Some of the most notable campus landmarks — the Law Quad, the bronze block M, Hill Auditorium and the Diag — were gifts to the university.
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March 28, 2016
Baseball and civil rights legend
Law School alumnus and former U-M baseball coach Branch Rickey, shown here with former Michigan baseball coach Ray Fisher, reshaped the national civil rights conversation and national pastime.
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March 21, 2016
Peddling papers
A newsboy wearing the block “M” on his sweater hawks newspapers in front of Nickels Arcade in 1932.
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March 14, 2016
On the air
The reggae band First Light stops by WCBN-FM, the University of Michigan’s free form student-run radio station, in the basement of the Student Activities Building in 1980.
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March 7, 2016
International reach
Barbour Scholars, like these from 1942-43, are part of U-M’s history of international scholarship.
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February 22, 2016
Two-time U.S. Olympian
Michigan alumnus William DeHart Hubbard was the first African-American athlete to win an individual Olympic gold medal, doing so at the 1924 Paris Games in the long jump (24 feet 5 inches).
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February 15, 2016
Drop the puck
The 1926 University of Michigan Ice Hockey Team is ready to play.
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February 8, 2016
Diversity pioneer
Henry Graham, the University of Michigan’s first African-American varsity tennis player, is pictured in a 1928 team photo.
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February 1, 2016
Day at the museum
The Alexander G. Ruthven Museums Building, for which Albert Kahn was the architect, is seen from North University Street in February 1950.
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