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

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THE SYSTEM IS BASED OIV BIGNESS A Michigan man, in 1 952, can roughly be characterized by his insistence on being part of a crowd. He is probably least un- comfortable in a lecture hall; more uncomfortable in the front row than in the last. More often than he asks questions, the Michigan man listens and accepts, many times thinks, rarely rejects. Perhaps two or three times a semester he is called upon to think on paper (something that he has learned to do wonderfully well) ; but any closer contact with an instructor is ap- proaching social error. Because his whole world is founded on a lecture hall, the Michigan man is terribly independent in thinking, terribly new in his attitudes and terribly inclined to be quiet. The kind of a man who is bred in these 100-or-more halls is, generally speaking, quite re- spectable (only two colleges in America, both Eastern, and alas, less provincial, surpass Michigan in the number of Who ' s Who men produced). The Michigan man has lived in a community where tradition is esteemed but not followed, where learning is exciting, noble and fash- ionable. He is seldom a radical (if he thinks radically, he does not talk about it), and he is seldom a conservative; somewhere between the two, nearer the left, is his position. This same position, it is said, could vary either way, suddenly or overnight, and few eyebrows would be raised. The man at Michigan has no public pulse; he is com- pletely intellectually and socially free.

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CAMPUS BEGINS AT SOUTH STATE AND ENDS IN SOUTH AFRICA U Hospital patients get a ferris-wheel view of the Arb. Tomorrow ' s lawyers argue court cases today in ivy-covered Hutchins Hall. Alumni Memorial is home for the Alumnus and the line arts student. WAB is the one athletic building on campus not cited for de-emphasis as only the coed plays ball. Advanced research in American history is carried on in the- annals of Clements. A midget sky-scraper of super-efficient business sense fills the Bus Ad block. Romance Language stands symbol of a passing era. 10 The Administration Building, the heart of University ac- tivity, the crossroad for nearly twenty-thousand transcripts. The Natural History Museum houses dinosaurs and students.