100 Years ago at Michigan State University

From MAC 11/6/1922...Lots of movements around campus...including MAC getting a full restaurant at the music center until the new Union Building is completed.

@kevinforsyth Where is the map from...I dont think I've ever seen it before

@100_university I'm pretty sure this is another example of the railway management making promises it would never follow through on (double tracking between Lansing and campus being another). Removal of the "college loop" soon turned contentious, and the railway threatened to discontinue service.

From MAC Record 10/30/1922...looks like we will be getting a legit train station at M.A.C and Grand River!

MAC Record 10/23/1922...Union building continues to move forward.

From MAC Record 10/23/1922...The Forensic Literary Society is now Lambda Chi Alpha.

From MAC Record 10/16/1922...Plans for MAC-UM get together

From MAC Record 10/9/1922...Students are going to protect Split (aka Half-way) Rock! Part of which will be moved 2 years from now and place just outside the Union Building. kevinforsyth.net/ELMI/halfway.h…

For MAC Record 10/9/1922...baseball field floods might be a thing of the past due to the proposed channel that would run south from present day Sparty status to Kellogg Center (White Elephant was near Harrison and Michigan)

Per MAC Record 10/9/1922...MAC is growing!!! Enrollment now at 1619

Good news Aggies! Per the 10/2/1922 MAC Record...looks like the Union Building is going to happen and building is planned to start next June!

From MAC Record 9/8/1922...Ground broken for the new MAC Library! (today the MSU Museum)...this will replace the current Library at (now known as) Linton Hall

From MAC Record 9/8/1922...It's the start of a new school year and President Friday greet a large crowd regarding his vision of the future in the Forest of Arden (wooded area in front of the women's building?)

@kevinforsyth Wow...that's makes the USFL v NFL verdict look like a windfall

... "and awarding him six cents damages, as the defendant's occupancy of the land in East Lansing was deemed illegal." No joke: 6 cents. He won the lawsuit but received virtually nothing for his claim, and the railway was allowed to keep its "illegal occupancy" on M.A.C. Ave.

As is well known, Division Street was created when College Grove developers Horace Angell and Charles Chase split their partnership. But did you know that the interurban railway through the city was nearly blocked by Chase? #LostEastLansing kevinforsyth.net/ELMI/college-g…

#OTD 100 years ago WKAR radio was officially licensed. It was the first educational radio station in the state. Happy anniversary @WKAR! [Image: WKAR radio tower next to the MAC Smokestack, circa 1930s]. #MSUHistory #TBT

@kevinforsyth Yup...that's the one...double checked online, that light fixture in the stairwell looks to be the same as from the mid-90s (and likely earlier than that)

@100_university If you mean 919EGR, funny you should mention. It's also part of the Merten empire. Sibilla Merten married builder Herbert Graham in 1957, and they built this, the "Merten–Graham Building" in 1960. Don't know the architect but it's a cool little slice of 50s/60s modernism.

Merten Building, 935 E. Grand River (1953). The Merten Insurance Agency was run by brother/sister duo Leo and Sibilla. This midcentury gem by Lansing architects Lee and Kenneth C. Black is delightfully unaltered and even has its "Merten Building" letters intact. #LostEastLansing

All the words capitalized are other students from the class of 1912

Max Gardner from the 1912 Wolverine yearbook

From MAC Record 5/12/1922...fun little piece by Pete Bancroft and Max Gardner about their road trip back to MAC (think prequel to Dude, Where's my car?). Favorite line: "On account of the great distance to travel (3 miles) and the road (Michigan) they decided to start at 3am."

From MAC Record 5/12/1922...If you want to start a fire just north of Munn (please don't), make sure you check with the Forestry Department first.