This month in history (90 years ago)

Clarence Cook Little was elected to the presidency of the university by the Board of Regents on Sept. 10, 1925. Freshman Week, as it was then called, was one of the more striking of Little’s innovations. The term was adopted to describe a program originally planned to cover an entire week, during which the freshmen would be oriented to the university and its facilities.

— From “The University of Michigan: An Encyclopedic Survey”