Laughter, Falling Water and Time
CO-EDS PLAY HOCKEY Reds Beat Greens, Thereby Winning the Ice Championship in the Two-Team League. NEW GAME TRIED OUT Players Are Awarded Seal to Correspond With Athletic “M” of Boys! With much whacking of shins, the Reds won over the Greens in the girls’ hockey game at the University yesterday afternoon by a score of … Read more
Lake of the Isles is known for its two wooded islands, its long north arm, and the surrounding stately houses of Lowry Hill and Kenwood. Looking west from the Mississippi River at the Skyline of the city. Minneapolis is a beautiful city with its gleaming skyscrapers, its modern mills, its magnificent homes and its spacious … Read more
College of Agriculture — Take Como-Harriet or Como-Hopkins car line, get off at Carter Ave. and walk about one-half mile northeast. One of the departments of the State University. This department has a separate campus at St. Anthony Park, St. Paul, covering, with the grounds of the state experimental station, about 413 acres, on which … Read more
The architect responsible for the design of your favorite brick buildings on the Northrop Mall was Clarence H. Johnston. The best known and most recognizable prominent of his designs is probably Northrop Auditorium. Completed in 1929,the five-story building at the far end of the mall has an enormous brick pediment above the familiar portico that … Read more
GIRLS’ DORMITORY HAS PARTY FOR BOYS Last night at about 6 o’clock the boys of the boys’ dormitory were invited to a Valentine party given by the members of the girls’ dormitory Girl Reserve at the girls’ dormitory. Some girls also were invited to this party. More than half of the 42 boys accepted the … Read more
Regardless of what the present legislature may do with the university requests for new buildings in the next two years one structure is assured, a new home for the school of chemistry. as the desired appropriation was voted two years ago. The design prepared by the architect for the state board of control, is held … Read more
Halsey William Wilson, a student working his way through the University of Minnesota founded The H. W. Wilson Company with his roommate, Henry S. Morris way back in 1898. The company published its first first original reference title, The Cumulative Book Index, that very same year. Wilson’s book selling business served students and educators working … Read more
“HI” OVER EAST AREA MINNEAPOLIS CAMPUS University Of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota View of the campus with Mississippi River in the foreground. The river is the scene Of many Summer- time campus activities one unique spectacle is the Centennial Showboat which performs to sellout crowds throughout its summer season.
The first Northern Pacific Railroad bridge at this location was built in 1885. That bridge got rebuilt in 1917 so it could handle bigger locomotives and heavier trains. In 1922, the old bridge was removed and the new Bridge #9, designed by Frederick W. Cappelen was constructed. In 1955 the bridge was rebuilt as to … Read more