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.
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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