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“Insanitary conditions”
Michigan Today, James Tobin, September 18, 2015
Students casually spitting on classroom floors — that was apparently the last straw for Dr. Aldred Scott Warthin.
In 1910, Warthin served not only as U-M’s chief professor of pathology but as chair of Ann Arbor’s chapter of the Michigan Anti-Tuberculosis Society, and he was the loudest voice in town in favor of cleaning up the campus — because in the early 20th century, the campus, truth be told, was a dirty, smelly, and downright unsanitary place.
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Students casually spitting on classroom floors — that was apparently the last straw for Dr. Aldred Scott Warthin.
In 1910, Warthin served not only as U-M’s chief professor of pathology but as chair of Ann Arbor’s chapter of the Michigan Anti-Tuberculosis Society, and he was the loudest voice in town in favor of cleaning up the campus — because in the early 20th century, the campus, truth be told, was a dirty, smelly, and downright unsanitary place.
Read the complete article.
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