Tag: Land Grant

Memorial Stadium, 1924

Commemorating WWI in Minnesota: The Brickhouse

September 6, 2012

The largest memorial to those Minnesotans who died in World War I no longer exists, except for a preserved fragment and an impressive website that thoroughly documents its nearly ninety-year history. Opened in 1924, the University of Minnesota’s Memorial Stadium hosted six national championship-winning football teams before the Gophers  moved off-campus to the Metrodome in … More Commemorating WWI in Minnesota: The Brickhouse

Elmer Andersen Library

The U of M

March 29, 2012

Seeing as how I spent part of my Monday post tearing into a Washington Post op-ed piece that vilified small college faculties for the few hours they put into their job, then followed it on Tuesday by spotlighting a couple of articles about the value of the liberal arts, today I’d like to praise another … More The U of M