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...anniversary for the second time. Four years ago Michigan held its first centennial, commemorating its establishment at Ann Arbor. That celebration flopped when a zealous alumnus dug up an old State Supreme Court decision holding that the university's existence dated back to the 1817 founding of the "Catholepistemiad" (University of Universal Studies), a Detroit secondary school that held no college classes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Second Centennial | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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