News from July 2024
See all upcoming Libraries events — including our featured events, workshops, and exhibits — on the UMN Twin Cities Events Calendar.
Something ancient; something new
My previous post, “The teeth of time,” drew inspiration from one of the brief tangents in Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (London & New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2011). The digression on bookworms allowed Greenblatt to explore the reality of what happened to books produced in Antiquity, and, poetically, to evoke the idea of impermanence and the disintegration of all things.
Past Traditions: Freshman Camp
Freshman Camp was born in the summer of 1930, when a number of incoming male freshmen were given the opportunity to meet at the Minneapolis YMCA camp at Lake Independence.