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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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The Robber’s Third Chance
When the facts warrant, [we] take a calculated risk — to give a young man or a young woman an opportunity to redeem himself.
– Associate Dean James Robertson -
War Over Words
He dared to criticize the dictionary and its editor.
– Michael Adams -
The Vanishing of Schoolgirls’ Glen
It should be kept so that it might become a haven of quiet one hundred years from now.
– Alexander Ruthven -
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 -
Michigan in the Making
"You have the men to talk to."
– Henry Carter Adams to James Angell, 1882 -
When Heads Rolled
...let the gargoyles stand headless.
– William Wilson Cook -
The Great Rush
As fast as a man is pushed over and falls, he arises and puts his breast to the solid wall of human beings and shoves.
– A spectator at the Great Rush of 1872 -
Vulcan’s Muddy Light
Our astronomer has inscribed his name with those of Galileo, and Herschel and Le Verrier, on tablets which must endure as long as man shall continue to gaze upon the heavens.
– Henry Simmons Frieze -
Doctor Dock
If we only heard loud sounds we would not have to take the trouble to listen carefully. You can’t expect your patients to go around with sirens on them.
– Dr. George Dock, teaching the proper use of a stethoscope -
Just Nuts
Why, it’s some of my oldest friends – always ready to help when everything goes wrong – the squirrels in the trees.
– Student Jim Barbour, a Michigan Union Opera character -
Blinded By Science
I cannot idly pick up a book and glance through it. Nor can I sit and look out the window. I must spend my time in reflection.
– Edward De Mille Campbell -
The Gift of Vision
Some of the Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomy tribes … believing they may wish some of their children hereafter educated, do grant to … the college at Detroit, for the use of the said college …
– Treaty of Fort Meigs, 1817 -
“Lonely As Hell”
The reality was so massive that all a person of good will could do was make token gestures.
– Willis Ward -
The Lost Campus
My memories of the place are sweet, and so many things that formed those memories have been altered.
– Arthur Miller (LSA, 1938) -
River Rat
Each moment might easily have been our last, but fortunately we were too busy to meditate upon our imminent untimely end.
– Professor Elzada Clover, 1938 -
Madonna Slept Here
There are other places, surely, for other people, but for me there is one place, Ann Arbor, for there it was I discovered what life’s bright possibilities were.
– William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker -
Revelli: The Long Note
You are not a conductor of bands, you’re a conductor of people.
– William D. Revelli -
Dear Aunt Ruth
People just don't realize how serious this thing really is. I certainly didn't until I came face to face with the realities here.
– Arlie D. Reagan, U.S. Navy, Aug. 15, 1943 -
The First Women
[Professor Sewall] called my name three times, yet I could not muster enough courage to answer.
– Ella Kyes, 1924 -
The Warrior Scholar
One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
– George Orwell -
“A Creation of My Own”
I cannot speak of the Observatory without emotion. No one will deny that it was a creation of my own.
– Henry Philip Tappan