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Heritage Project — Professor White’s Diag

April 25, 2022

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The Ann Arbor campus was barely 20 years old when Andrew Dickson White first saw it. He arrived from Yale in October 1857 to teach history and English literature. He was less than impressed with the look of the campus upon which sat the buildings dedicated to learning. The place needed trees, and he went to work. — Read the full story on the Heritage Project. Click on the image to enlarge.

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