Old school: U-M in History
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| To help celebrate the 1927 Michigan Stadium dedication, two wolverine mascots, Bennie and Biff, were carried along the sidelines during the opening football game. — Photo courtesy Bentley Historical Library |
This month in history (133 years ago)A student tradition that began in 1860 and continued into the early 1900s involved the “burning” of mechanics, physics or mathematics, to mark the completion of a course. In March 1878 several hundred students, several blowing tin horns and many in costumes, marched to a campus ball ground where a platform and gallows had been erected, and the prisoner (physics) was “executed.” — From Anne Duderstadt’s “Photographic Saga of the University of Michigan”
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