August 26th, 2017 at 12:09 AM ^
BICENTENNIAL Y'ALL
August 26th, 2017 at 11:29 AM ^
BICENTENNI-Y'ALL!
August 26th, 2017 at 12:23 AM ^
not ot
August 26th, 2017 at 12:45 AM ^
There is something delicious about the 1st post-no-OT OT of the season.
August 26th, 2017 at 1:44 AM ^
the Sesquicentennial. Does that age me?
August 26th, 2017 at 7:12 AM ^
as to your aging. you might have put a lot of miles on the odometer in '67.
August 26th, 2017 at 7:21 AM ^
many times since then.
August 26th, 2017 at 7:23 AM ^
but you have a few more miles than i do. i would lay claim that the first of our family, going on 5 generations of michigan grads, graduated in '94. 1894.
August 26th, 2017 at 9:05 AM ^
In fact I think I still have the newspaper supplement about the sesquicentennial somewhere.
August 26th, 2017 at 2:05 AM ^
"But do let me reiterate the spirit of Michigan. It is based upon a deathless loyalty to Michigan and all her ways; An enthusiasm that makes it second nature for Michigan men to spread the gospel of our university to the world's distant outposts; A conviction that nowhere is there a better university, in any way, than this Michigan of ours" - Fielding H. Yost
Happy 200th Birthday to the greatest university in the world!
August 26th, 2017 at 11:23 AM ^
"Whoever said - you can’t go home again - has never been to Ann Arbor. Exactly 75 years have passed since I first walked down State Street. I felt instantly at home, a feeling which has never left me."
- Gerald Ford
August 26th, 2017 at 2:27 AM ^
Happy bicentennial.
I'll be tits up at the next one but just maybe my great grandkids read this archived blog message and do a shot in my name: Mr. Jack Hammer.
August 26th, 2017 at 3:16 AM ^
Aaaahhhh.....that was for you Mr Hammer!
Cheers Blue!
August 26th, 2017 at 5:53 AM ^
Are there banners or anything celebrating the fact or might there be a #200 patch on all sports jerseys or something?
Pretty cool though.
August 26th, 2017 at 7:22 AM ^
There are lots of events all over campus (and have been since earlier this year)! https://bicentennial.umich.edu/
August 26th, 2017 at 7:53 AM ^
I guarantee that's not Nike. If I can't get a shirt that fits me no way that big bastard's gonna find one.
August 26th, 2017 at 8:26 AM ^
Detroit should be celebrating... after all, that's where the greatest university was founded!
Aaaannd that's about the extent of what I remember from my History of the University of Michigan class.
August 26th, 2017 at 12:15 PM ^
There are banners on campus commemorating the 200th anniversary. Also, Burton Tower now is illuminated at night (either in white, maize or blue) which is pretty cool.
August 26th, 2017 at 8:13 AM ^
Happy 200th Birthday. Let's celebrate with a National Title.
August 26th, 2017 at 8:38 AM ^
This is the year. There are no other years. THIS is the year.
National Championship!
August 26th, 2017 at 9:15 AM ^
"There are other places, surely, for other people, but for me there is one place, Ann Arbor, for there it was I discovered what life's bright possibilites were."
- WillIam Shaw, Editor of The New Yorker
August 26th, 2017 at 9:33 AM ^
Gator on a platter!
GO BLUE!!
August 26th, 2017 at 9:39 AM ^
Father Gabriel Richard!
August 26th, 2017 at 12:51 PM ^
I looked up Father Richard. Wow. He truly was the first Michigan Man. I would suggest others read his biography here to appreciate this part of our Heritage- Allez Bleu!
http://blogs.detroitnews.com/history/1997/07/19/father-gabriel-richard-…
August 26th, 2017 at 9:58 AM ^
somehow, I am disappoiinted (but not surprised) the marketing whizzes in Ann Arbor didnt manage to make today the media capper on a big fund-raiser-sponsorship-salute to ourselves.
Instead, I found out through my semi primary source of news, M Go Blog.
August 26th, 2017 at 11:07 AM ^
I first realized it a few days ago when I saw an alum with the special M bicentennial avatar on her LinkedIn page
August 26th, 2017 at 11:27 AM ^
they ruined a graduation over it in april soooooo
August 26th, 2017 at 10:31 AM ^
Is this a good place to say "F Ohio State"?
August 26th, 2017 at 10:42 AM ^
A university founded by Catholic priests.
Arts, knowledge, truth.
August 26th, 2017 at 10:56 AM ^
Fr. Richard was a pretty remarkable man all around. In addition to founding the greatest university in the world, he was the first Catholic priest elected to the House of Representatives, was so respected by the Native Americans he ministered to that Chief Tecumseh refused to ally with the British until they released him from prison (he had been arrested for remaining loyal to the US), and wrote the motto for the city of Detroit. He gave his life in 1832, caring for the sick night & day during a cholera outbreak until he succumbed to the disease himself. Definitely a good day to honor his memory!
August 26th, 2017 at 12:23 PM ^
'founded by a farmer with an advanced case of tertiary syphilis and with an uncommon knowledge of animal husbandry....'
(i kid only. in truth my state friends are very cool - not a one has ever mentioned that one unmentionable play from a couple years ago. not even once.)
August 26th, 2017 at 11:23 AM ^
200 years of academic excellence is nothing to sneeze at!
August 26th, 2017 at 11:29 AM ^
Part of something very special:
August 26th, 2017 at 12:33 PM ^
Happy Birthday, University of Michigan.