October 1, 1927 - Michigan’s 

new stadium, with its seating 
capacity of almost 75,000 seats, 
will be ready at game time today 
to receive what is expected to be 
the largest crowd ever to attend 
a Michigan home game, it was 
announced yesterday. Only a 
small block of seats, not to exceed 
100, demand more attention, and 
these will not be available. The 
stadium, regarded by contractors 
as one of the finest of its kind in the 
country, is 2,500 feet around, with 
22 miles of California redwood 
seats used to fill it. 11,000 yards 
of concrete, and 71,000 sacks 
cement have been necessary to 
the working of the structure. The 
stands contain 68 rows in each 
section, as well as four rows of 
boxes, these extending around the 
entire field. Only a few of these 
seats will not be available when 
Michigan meets Ohio Wesleyan 
today. In addition to the grandeur 
of the new stadium, the press box 
is regarded as the most modern 
and complete of its kind. A 
seating capacity of more than 250 
people is one of the outstanding 
features of this structure which is 
equipped with all possible types 
of wire and radio conveniences. 
The finishing touches have not yet 
been added, but it will be ready for 
work today. Included among the 
spectators who will be present to 

inaugurate the new structure will 
be more than 36,000 high school 
students who have been invited 
to attend the game as guests of 
the Michigan athletic association. 
These students will meet at 2:30 
o’clock at Yost field house, where 

they will hear a brief talk by 
President Clarence Cook Little 
on the outstanding merits of the 
University. From the Field house 
they will be escorted to the field 
by the Varsity band to witness the 
game. 

2 — Friday, September 15, 2017
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Bicentennial

Ground Broken During Commencement Week 
by President Hutchins; Cooley Residence to Go

Kick Isn’t There, But the Price Has Gone Up Just the Same

Brass Ensemble Of Band Opens Dedicatory Rites With Fanfare, 
Ruthven Receives Bells From Baird, Carillonneur From Ottawa Peace 

July 22, 1916 - Ground for the 

new Michigan Union clubhouse 
having been broken during 
Commencement by President 
Harry B. Hutchins, it is now 
estimated that the building 
will be completed some time 
next 
spring. 
Michigan 
will 

then possess one of the finest 
clubhouses 
in 
the 
country. 

For many years the Union 
has occupied the old Cooley 
residence on State street. Owing 
to the very rapid growth of the 
University, the need for more 
room and improved facilities 
for the Union has been felt for 
some time. The campaign for 
the fund for the new building 
was begun in the fall of 1915. 
The campaign extended all over 
the country. In all the large 
cities, committees of Michigan 
Alumni were organized. Mass 
meetings were held in many 
of the large cities, and it is 
largely due to the efforts and 
enthusiasm of the alumni that 

the new clubhouse has become 
a possibility. The activities 
in Ann Arbor consisted in 
campaigns 
to 
enlarge 
the 

present membership of the 
Union. 
Undergraduates 
also 

sent out postcards to alumni 
in their home towns, in order 
to increase the interest in 
the campaign, and to explain 
its purposes and the spirit 
under which it was started. 
The mark set for the fund 
was a million, and at present 
the amount is $750,000 and 
is 
steadily 
increasing. 
The 

architects for the new building 
are Pond & Pond of Chicago, 
two 
Michigan 
alumni. 
The 

Union will be a four-story 
building and will contain such 
things as a swimming-pool, 
committee rooms, rooms for 
alumni, various dining rooms, 
reading rooms and other social 
features. The new Michigan 
Union is to be a memorial to Dr. 
James Burrill Angell.

May 9, 1920 - Students of 

the University of Michigan 
are drinking heavily. In the 
face of prohibition laws, both 
state and federal, the taste 
for drink is too much and the 
thirsty student is succumbing 
to temptation. It is true that 
students 
of 
the 
University 

are drinking heavily. Figures, 
that never lie, tell a tale of 
consumption that rivals that 

of pre-prohibition days when 
you could get a drink for the 
asking. The high cost of living 
has brought with it the high 
cost of drinking, yet the student 
defies even this hazard and 
will satisfy his thirst. Gone 
‘Way Up! Even though coca 
colas have advanced from five 
cents a glass, and even though 
malted milks are bringing the 
drug stores twenty and twenty-
five cents each, the students 
continue to drink heavily. 

Drinking, they have found, 

can be done very efficiently, 
despite 
the 
fact 
that 
the 

sizzling 
hot 
and 
powerful 

sensation of gin or whiskey 
is no longer there to make a 
pathway down one’s throat 
for the final wallop. Even the 
wallop is missing in these 
new drinks, yet the students 
continue to drink of them 
heavily. Spirits are lacking on 
the campus. Both the Oliver 
Lodge kind and the kind with 

the wallop. If you have the kind 
with a wallop, every man is 
your friend. But if you haven’t, 
said would be friend must 
satisfy himself with the milder 
drinks that are served him at 
the local soda emporiums. But 
the lack of the kick, deters him 
not. He continues to drink, 
kick or no kick, and he drinks 
heavily. Figures gathered at 
the various drug stores and the 
Union soda fountain bear out 
that statement.

December 
5, 
1936 
- 
As 

the musical tones of the Baird 
Carillon’s 53 bells faded into a grey 
December dusk, the University’s 
newest monument, its long silence 
broken, 
had 
yesterday 
been 

formally dedicated to coming 
generations of Michigan students. 
Participating in an impressive 
ceremony, modelled closely after 
an ancient English custom of 
dedication of church bells, were 
President Ruthven, Charles Baird, 
‘95, donor of the carillon, and 
Frank Godfrey, engineer for the 
English firm which cast the bells. A 
fanfare played by a brass ensemble 
of the Michigan Band stationed in 
the bell chamber 10 stories above 
the campus opened the dedication 
at 4:15 p.m. After the University 
Glee Club had sung “Laudesatque 

Carmina,” the formal presentation 
was made in Hill Auditorium. 

Symbol Is Presented 
Mr. Baird, Kansas City lawyer, 

said in presenting to President 
Ruthven a small silver bell symbolic 
of the third largest carillon in the 
world:

“From the time I entered this 

University 46 years ago I have 
loved it. It has been an inspiration 
to me all my life. I feel that I cannot 
repay the University of Michigan 
for what she has given me. “All 
the friends of Dr. Burton who 
knew and loved him will rejoice 
in this realization of a dream of 
his, frustrated by an untimely 
death.” President Ruthven, in 
accepting the bells in behalf of 
the University, said: “The Charles 
Baird Carillon is to be considered 
an important educational facility 
of the University of Michigan for 

it will further the comprehensive 
objective of our schools— the 
production of cultured men and 
women. Mr. Baird, you have made 
for yourself an enduring place in 
the University of Michigan family. 
I accept these bells for the Board 
of Regents. Everytime these lovely 
tones sound over campus, city 
and countryside some soul will be 
cheered, encouraged and uplifted.” 

Blakeman Offers Prayer 
A dedicatory prayer was offered 

by Dr. E. W. Blakeman, counselor 
of religion, followed by seven 
sonorous bongs from the Bourdon 
Bell; and then the Glee Club and 
the audience joined in singing 
the “Yellow and Blue.” Wilmot 
Pratt, 
carillonneur, 
starting 

with 
“America,” 
played 
six 

selections, including Beethoven’s 
“Variations,” on ‘Ode to Joy’,” and 
Mozart’s “Minuet.” Percival Price, 

Dominion carillonneur for the 
Peace Tower in Ottawa, was among 
several 
visiting 
carillonneurs 

and musical directors. He will 
remain in Ann Arbor today to 
play several selections at noon, 
according to Prof. Earl V. Moore, 
director of the School of Music. 
Approximately 
4,000 
people 

attended the ceremonies and 
recital. As Wilmot Pratt’s final 
notes of Denyn’s “Preludium 
for Carillon” trailed into a bleak 
gunmetal sky, a carillon was 
dedicated which will sing out on 
many another December day and 
many a balmy spring day also, as 
President Ruthven says, “To cheer, 
encourage and uplift.” Mr. Baird 
was guest last night at a dinner 
given by Professor Moore at which 
various members of the University 
were present, including Mr. Pratt 
and Mr. Price.

JOSEPH A. BERNSTEIN

JAMES A. BOOZER

Building up of Michigan: Union 

clubhouse finished by spring Students Drink Heavily-

Malted Milk, Coca Cola

Carillon Concert Given In 
Impressive Ceremony To 
Dedicate New Tower

FILE PHOTO/Daily

The Michigan Union as it appeared in the paper on July 22, 1916.

AMELIA CACCHIONE/Daily

The Michigan Football Stadium.

AMELIA CACCHIONE/Daily

“I’m really optimistic about the 
progress that we’ve made in the 
last 20 years or so. We’ve worked 
a lot on college affordability, we’ve 
worked a lot on making this campus 
more representative of the people 
that make up the state of Michigan 
and make up the country, and I think 
we’ve seen the University of Michi-
gan come out time and time again 
as the leader in fields across the 
world— we’re a beacon for people 
no matter where they’re from. One 
of the most important parts of our 
history is our activism...I know that 
in the next ten years or so we’ll have 
even more progress because of stu-
dents continuing to commit to that 
era of activism.”
LSA senior Anushka Sarkar, 
Central Student Government 
president

FE ATURE D PEOPLE

The Michigan Daily asked University faculty members, staff members or students 

what the University Bicentennial means to them. 
Stadium will receive first crowd 
of football fans this afternoon

“The Bicentennial, to me, has 
provided many of us in the 
college an opportunity to do two 
different things. One is to look 
back on our successes and also 
learn from the times in which 
we weren’t as successful as we 
could’ve been, and to think about 
what are the lessons learned 
from the last 200 years. The 
other thing that the Bicentennial 
has allowed us to do — which is 
difficult to do, given the pace of 
what’s happening and all of our 
day-to-day work — is to think 
about what do the next 100 years 
look like for the college?” 
Andrew Martin,
LSA Dean

KATELYN MULCAHY/Daily

1817 — The University is 

first introduced in Detroit as 

the University of Michigania

1851- Ann Arbor elects 

its first mayor, George 

Sedgwick

1853- Samuel Codes Watson, 

a medical student, is first 

African American student 

admitted to U-M 

1854 — Detroit 

Observatory is built on 

campus

1856 — U-M becomes the 

first in the country to build a 

chemical laboratory

1863 — President 

Abraham Lincoln gives 

Gettysburg address

1837 — The first Regents meeting

1837 — Michigan legislature passes an act 

creating the University we know today, and 

three main departments: Law, Medicine and 

LSA

TODAY

