History
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February 16, 2015
The Lost Campus
The great American playwright Arthur Miller graduated from Michigan in 1938. When he returned in 1953, he was dismayed by the massive and unfamiliar new residence halls. “There are buildings now where I remembered lawn and trees,” he wrote. Each cadre of students at Michigan goes through Miller’s experience.
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February 10, 2015
Ancient Egyptian artifacts on view for first time in Kelsey exhibit
In the first exhibition of its kind, the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology brings together artifacts from 1920s and ’30s excavations in Egypt, and selections from the largest papyrology collection in North America.
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February 9, 2015
A tradition never broken
The Potawatomi chief Metea was one of the Native Americans who signed the 1817 Treaty of Fort Meigs, which provided a gift of land to the fledgling “University of Michigania.”
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February 2, 2015
Ready to open
Past University Musical Society President Gail Rector in 1971 stands on stage with technicians at the Power Center for the Performing Arts, just before the center opens for the first time.
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January 26, 2015
Depression Generation
The Great Depression tore a hole in the University of Michigan. Thousands of students had to leave school. Thousands more who might have thrived at U-M never got the chance to try.
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January 21, 2015
U-M’s Vulcan searcher was the university’s ‘brightest son’
James Craig Watson was U-M’s “brightest son.” That’s what President Henry Simmons Frieze said of the gifted 19th-century astronomer and Detroit Observatory director.
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January 19, 2015
Professor White’s diag
Sunlight filters through the trees of the Diag as a woman passes through in the 1930s. The trees that now grace Central Campus began with the efforts of Professor Andrew Dickson White in the mid-1800s.
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January 12, 2015
School of Music
Eero Saarinen, who designed the School of Music, became ill and died before the school’s completion in 1964. Saarinen watched construction from his room in University Hospital. The building brought together school activities that had been spread over 13 buildings.
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December 15, 2014
Preparing students
Jack L. Walker served as director of the Institute of Public Policy Studies from 1974-79. He encouraged faculty to take leaves of absence to serve government agencies. Walker said that when faculty members return, they see ways to improve the curriculum to better prepare students for entry into government. (Photo courtesy of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy)
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December 8, 2014
UMS tradition
The University Choral Union performs Handel’s “The Messiah” on Dec. 16, 1945, in Hill Auditorium.
