University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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Oct. OH i; Nor. M Dee. 1900 First Semester began Class work began Thanksgiving Day vacation Christinas Holidays began Jan. ' } t ' eh. 11 t ' fli. II, Frh. P April X April IX J n i- -ill 1910 C ' lasses resumtd after Holiday Vacation Kirst Semester closed Second Semester began George Washington ' s Birthday vacation Spring vacation began Classes resumed after Spring vacation Commencement Uav

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NINETEEN-TEN MICHIG A.NENSI AN The Home of the University HERE are times when a traveler toil- ing up a mountain suddenly reaches a warm, sheltered pe ak whence he can survey the valley far below him. He lays aside his burden, wipes the sweat from his eyes and views the landscape. Gradually, insensibly, his tired muscles relax. He forgets the lofty, ice-clad peaks he still must scale and lets his fancy wander back to the lowly valley whence he came. So shall we today, from our sheltered coign of vantage, look back over the path this great in- stitution of ours has traveled and from the difficulties which have been surmounted in the past take renewed courage to meet the trials of the future and renewed appreciation of this beautiful home of ours. In the daily routine of our work we are apt to forget how beautiful is the home of this University. Our hearts thrill when we hear Old Harvard and Fair Cornell immortalized in song and story. Antiquity lends romance, even as dis- tance lends a charm. Our alma mater is not as old as some of the time-honored colleges of the east and we should be glad that it is so. We are, in comparison with Harvard, still in our youth. But what a gay and buoyant youth it is! And what a glorious home in which to expand and grow strong! do out on the hills that girt us round on every side, follow the Huron where it winds between its terraced heights, go out into the country and look across fields growing green in the springtime sun and ask where could be found a fairer dwelling place: ' Loiter beneath Ann Arbor ' s pines and elms, linger through the campus when the dome on University Hall glows with the light of the setting sun and the library chimes play their silvery tune, and try to conjure up a more idyllic place in which to study and trace the stream of learning to its source. It is fitting that such a University should be builded here, a University whose keystone is democracy and whose gates stand open for all to enter. There would be something incongruous about having such an institution in a city, where life is congested and distinctions of class are closely drawn. But here where life is (ill