This month in history (95 years ago)
President Marion LeRoy Burton, inaugurated July 1, 1920, proposed a fellowship in creative art at the University of Michigan. The Board of Regents approved the plan, said they hoped a gift would make it possible, and that poet Robert Frost would take the fellowship. Chase S. Osborn, former governor of the state and regent of the university, provided a $5,000 gift to fund the fellowship. A similar gift by an anonymous donor extended it through the following year. Frost accepted the position. During 1921-23, he presented informal but stimulating conferences with students.
— From “The University of Michigan: An Encyclopedic Survey”
