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Happy Birthday, MSU

Happy Birthday! Congrats on exceeding expectations!

http://heritage.umich.edu/story/seeds-of-discontent/#Avoiding-A-Fifth-Rate-Affair

The establishment of Michigan’s agricultural college was bitter fruit for the University of Michigan.
Before the first spade of dirt was turned for a new school in East Lansing in 1855, seeds of animosity had taken root in Ann Arbor. The University of Michigan, already flourishing with students, professors and facilities, was determined to be the state’s agriculture school. Any other plans, any other schools, were without merit.
“It is better to have one great institution than half a dozen abortions,” proclaimed U-M’s first president. “One institution must be located somewhere because we cannot locate everywhere; let us not split it into little pieces which shall have no strength and value anywhere.”
A new school built anywhere in the state other than Ann Arbor, added a prominent Michigan professor, “cannot be more than a fifth-rate affair.”
It was a headiness that would fuel heated rhetoric and an animated rivalry that continues today between the University of Michigan and the school that would ultimately prevail as the ag school, Michigan State University.
 
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Blump...

another year, another birthday for MSU.

This year, they have a new (interim) president who is a proud Cooley Law School alum, and a whole new section in their wikipedia entry.

"Advancing Knowledge. Transforming Lives."
 
If you can find a Spartan that is aware of the history of their school, one of the arguments they often regurgitate to defend their existence is the accusation that while the University of Michigan had lobbied for and had funds appropriated to the goal of forming an agricultural school, they had not made sufficient progress.

Their argument does a disservice to Charles Fox. When Michigan hired him, Charles Fox became the first professor of agriculture in the state of Michigan. He wrote a textbook on the subject, co-founded a horticultural gazette, and was President Tappan's choice to lead Michigan's agricultural efforts. But in his 1st month at Michigan, his son died from cholera and 2 days later, he also died.

Tragic.
 
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...in his 1st month at Michigan, his son died from cholera and 2 days later, he also died.

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Spartans don't tolerate excuses. There's no "my son and I have died of cholera" in T-e-a-m.
 
If you can find a Spartan that is aware of the history of their school, one of the arguments they often regurgitate to defend their existence is the accusation that while the University of Michigan had lobbied for and had funds appropriated to the goal of forming an agricultural school, they had not made sufficient progress.

Their argument does a disservice to Charles Fox. When Michigan hired him, Charles Fox became the first professor of agriculture in the state of Michigan. He wrote a textbook on the subject, co-founded a horticultural gazette, and was President Tappan's choice to lead Michigan's agricultural efforts. But in his 1st month at Michigan, his son died from cholera and 2 days later, he also died.

Tragic.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL - that was a good one. Thanks Gulo
 
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