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President Little saw incipient snobbishness in students who owned automobiles. Stories of accidents worried him. He prohibited automobiles from the Ann Arbor campus. Students protested, but stayed afoot...
President Little thought that all students should be housed on the campus. Several thousand boarded at homes in Ann Arbor. Landladies, foreseeing a loss of income, threatened suit, charged profligacy, wrote irate letters to the Board of Regents. Next year, as Dr. Little planned, a huge women's dormitory will rise on the Michigan campus...
...Little thought that education ceases never. He suggested a plan whereby graduates of Michigan could continue to study at their alma mater by taking a series of correspondence courses. This vast project (Michigan has nearly 70,000 alumni) he called the Alumni University. Soon letters were pouring into Ann Arbor, alumni-instruction pouring...
...young President with the black mustache and live black hair well knew the rift he was creating in Ann Arbor and Michigan opinion. In Lansing was Governor Fred Warren Green, able Republican lawyer, who liked to busy himself with education. The governor wanted more uni versity control vested in his Republican legislature. This was one thing the young President could not stand. Between them grew an inevitable personal dislike. One time Governor Green kept President Little waiting one hour in an anteroom of the State Capitol. President Little had requested an interview about a proposed tax survey. Finally Dr. Little...
...Arbor, Michigan, January 21--The resignation of Dr. Clarence Cook Little as president of the University of Michigan, to take effect on September 1, was unanimously accepted by the Board of Regents here this afternoon...