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Picture Perfect
It is a view looking west ... and the picture is now considered very valuable.
– Ann Arbor Courier -
The Fake News About James Neel
Almost anywhere we scratched the surface, a tangle of funhouse falsity would erupt through.
– John Tooby -
The Scientist of Peace
The global village remains in great jeopardy.
– Professor J. David Singer -
The First Flu Shot
Incontrovertible evidence is now available that the resistance of man to infection by the viruses of influenza A and B can be enhanced.
– Tommy Francis and Jonas Salk -
The Prisoner’s Dilemma
The Prisoner's Dilemma captured the essence of the tension between doing what is good for the individual and what is good for everyone.
– Robert Axelrod -
The Michigan Scientist Who Was Arrowsmith
It gives me joy to inform you that Paul De Kruif is perfection.
– Sinclair Lewis -
150 Years at the Hospital
From 20 beds in a converted house to a nationally recognized system of care.
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The Arsonist Was a Scholar
He was at worst emotionally unstable. He was sort of a ‘lone duck,’ living all by himself.
– Warren E. Blake, classical studies professor -
Dr. Joy’s Undoing
I regret exceedingly, and as much as one can regret, the whole of this unfortunate business, and I have done everything in my power to undo it.
– Dr. Douglas A. Joy -
Carpenter in the Dream Factory
People love a touch of the risqué just as they love a cocktail before dinner.
– Avery Hopwood -
J-Hop’s Rise and Fall
There is a band playing no matter what anyone tells you and if you don’t believe it just go up to the hospital and ask someone who got there early and saw it before the crush of the crowd got them.
– Student Roy Heath -
Angell, China and Opium
The opium trade ... was the most long-continued systematic international crime of modern times.
– John King Fairbank -
‘Our Linked Lives’
Margaret Bourke-White and Alexander Ruthven shared a deep friendship - and a terrible illness.
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Professor Ford
It would give immense satisfaction to both faculty and students of the University to have you as one of our colleagues.
– President Robben W. Fleming -
Backstage at the Graystone
The most beautiful ballroom in the middle west if not all the land.
– Graystone Topics newsletter -
Lost Star
"I can’t banish the feeling that there is a serious deficiency of academic freedom..."
– Lawrence Klein -
The First Freshmen
“The course of education to be pursued will be of the most liberal kind.”
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Tappan’s End
Tappan was the largest figure of a man that ever appeared on the Michigan campus, and he was stung to death by gnats!
– James Burrill Angell -
The Negro-Caucasian Club
The colored were not part and parcel of the school.
– Joseph Leon Langhorne -
First in Class
There’s an advantage to standing out as an individual, because if you’re liked, you’ll probably be remembered.
– Orval “Val” Johnson, Class of 1949 -
Campus Characters
Ann Arbor is nothing but a playhouse for me.
– Shakey Jake Woods -
The War of 1817
Hell’s bells, 1837 isn't a date! It's a disease – an obsession… an incurable mania.
– Judge Samuel Spill -
Earth Day Eve
We never in our wildest imagination conceived at the outset how big it was going to be.
– Doug Scott -
Doc Losh
You can’t just have astronomy all the time.
– Professor Hazel M. Losh -
Two Against Football
[A new stadium] will be a permanent concession, set in concrete for years to come, to the notion that college is nothing more than a Roman holiday.
– Neil Staebler -
Professor White’s Diag
Without permission from anyone, I began planting trees.
– Andrew Dickson White -
A Different Diag
We can only imagine now how much more beautiful the campus might have been...
– Wilfred Shaw -
Depression Generation
My generation learned to look at things as they were, not as they were supposed to be.
– Edmund Love -
The End of ‘Hours’
We know a great deal more about methods of injecting information into students than we do about how to make them civilized human beings.
– U-M President Robben Fleming, 1968 -
Wallenberg at Michigan
My school work has, on the whole, paid off not only when it comes to grades, because that isn’t too important, but because I really feel that I’ve learned something.
– Raoul Wallenberg -
“Our Brilliant Miss Sheldon”
I knew in that moment that my hour had come.
– Mary Downing Sheldon -
Such Horrible Business
Anatomy… familiarizes the heart to a kind of necessary inhumanity.
– William Hunter, Scottish anatomist -
Seeds of Discontent
We have established and will carry on an Agricultural Department for those who intend to devote themselves particularly to Agriculture.
– Henry Philip Tappan -
The 1913 Lectern
Could the Class of 1913 have known the voices of influence, controversy and power that would one day stand at this very lectern?