In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that’s why you’re not…
Tag: C.C. Little
Looking a Little More Deeply into C.C. Little
I’ve been both pleased and concerned to see the recent attention to Clarence Cook Little, president of the University of Michigan from 1924 to 1929. Pleased, because while in my own research I have found him both admirable and objectionable, I have always found him fascinating. Concerned, because the recent attention to Little seems less…
Why the C.C. Little Building Should be Renamed
This post was originally published on April 12, 2017. In January 1928, Clarence C. Little delivered an address at the Third Race Betterment Conference in Battle Creek, Michigan, on the strides being made by scientists committed to the ideas and objectives of eugenics. Espousing the belief that society could and should be improved by stimulating…
Debating the Legacy of C. C. Little
Welcome to the Re-Launch of the LSA Blog! We’ll be debating the legacy of Clarence C. Little on campus this fall and whether the university ought to remove his name from the C.C. Little Building. A team of faculty colleagues, along with an undergraduate History Honors student who is writing his thesis on Little, worked…