History
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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.
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November 24, 2014
Vintage high tech
The Michigan Digital Automatic Computer, pictured in 1954 at U-M’s Willow Run Research Center, was built the previous year with $500,000 of U.S. Air Force funds for Air Force research. It also was available to civilian industry.
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November 17, 2014
Reformer
Reflecting Progressive Era frustrations with government inefficiency and corruption, Jesse S. Reeves, chair of the U-M political science department, in 1925 proposes America’s first master’s in municipal administration degree.
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November 10, 2014
Armistice Day
In November 1918, Ann Arbor residents threw a parade to celebrate the armistice ending World War I.
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November 3, 2014
Rehearsing
Valery Gergiev rehearses the Marinsky Orchestra in November 1998 at Hill Auditorium, from a main floor aisle. The orchestra returns in January for two performances and the Ford Honors Program.
