Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is a general revival in athletics this year in the Michigan University. The board of directors are preparing for the early organization of base-ball and foot-ball teams, and intend to have one of the old time field days in May. They will dispense with the subscription method so far as possible and raise money by lectures and concerts...
...Evening Post: "The conservative spirit prevailing in the council of Columbia College, of which this latest action is a very good example, apparently looks upon co-education as something radical, and revolutionary, and untried in fact as a positive danger to society and morality. The examples of Cornell, Oberlin, Michigan University, and the late concessions at Harvard, are not even alluded to, although the evidence in favor of co-education from these institutions is overwhelming...
...College says in his annual report, that no one can have failed to remark the growing interest in this subject in New York city during the past year. He thinks that Columbia College must soon admit women as students on an equal footing with men; that where, as in Michigan University, this has been done, the results have been very reassuring and gratifying...
...long ago, President Angell, of Michigan University, after most earnestly recommending the system of co-education, proudly pointed to the fact that a good proportion of the women graduates of Ann Arbor are holding conspicuous positions as medical practitioners or teachers, among them being the president and five other members of the faculty of Wellesley College. - [N. Y. Mail...
Thomas W. Palmer of Detroit was yesterday elected U. S. Senator from Michigan after eighty-one ballots...