May 07, 1940
(vol. 50, iss. 156)
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…THIC MICHIGAN DAILY TUE~SDAY, MAY 7, 1940 THE MICHIGAN DAILY --.. Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications…
…-together verbiage, "Did You Know?" DID YOU KNOW that in the days when handle bar mustaches were the rage and every Michigan student was a rip snortin', fire breath- in' monster, circuses rolling into this town of…
… crowd, the reception the performers received and any unusual occurrences. Michigan students, say most of these nine- teenth century routebooks, were the terror of the age. Why the circus managements never…
… knew whether a show would go on because they never knew what the students would do. Favorite device of the dashing, handsome Michigan male was to spirit the circus girls away for picnics and the like…
… a one-night stand hardly attracted 20 students. BUT one early June day at the turn of the century, a new circus rolled into the circus lot. It had never come to Ann Arbor before. I'm afraid it had…
… tent stake with which to defend the show. The students, on the other hand, had had a magnificent time and essentially the same group decided to return to continue the fun. THE day of days dawned with a…
… hot sun blaz- ing down. Not so long before show time, the students descended en masse and, embold- ened by their success of the day before, de- manded admission without the formality of payment. The…
… master of the front gate temporized and, as the students stormed the gate, shouted for aid. Wave after wave of brawny circus roust- abouts appeared from nowhere swinging their tent stakes and students fell…
… like ten pins. This "Old Clem" as an all around fracas is called among the circus people, resulted in a precipitate retreat on the part of the students. Brown stains on the grass told how effective the…
… years where the entries noted Ann Arbor as good, orderly and the home of nothing un- usual. Only in one case was there an untoward in- cident . . . and the students had nothing to do with it. One of the…