Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...substitution of a game in the Stadium with Michigan to replace last fall's conflict with Pennsylvania is the outstanding feature of the 1930 football schedule given out by W. J. Bingham '16 last night. Two other changes from the 1928 schedule are the substitution of William and Mary for Lehigh and Vermont for North Carolina. The complete schedule is as follows...
President Little looked forward to Michigan's centennial (1937). He held alumni meetings, launched a building program which might well make Michigan physically the foremost U. S. university. In spite of vast expenditures involved, the alumni seemed enthusiastic. Last week, when President Little resigned, it was a year to the day since he first broached this program. Already alumni have responded. In Manhattan they are raising money for a University Little Theatre; in Detroit for a new dormitory...
...Little like most convinced men, worked fast, sometimes ruthlessly. Michigan's students and Regents were divided about him almost from the day of his arrival there. There were pro-Little juntos, and anti-Little; none were neutral...
...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...
Then there was the recent gift ($1,750,000) from Alumnus William Wilson Cook. Alumnus Cook believed he had the right to administer his gift. President Little, like President Frank at Wisconsin, believed that donors should merely give; the President and Regents dispose. But the Michigan Regents held with Alumnus Cook...