THE FRIDAY BLUEBOOK: 09/01/17: ANSWER A

Your answer: 1821

Correct! Most people didn't like the name “Catholepistemiad,” a.k.a U-M’s original name. The governor of the Michigan Territory at the time, Lewis Cass, referred to the young university as the “Cathole-what's its name,” and Justice James V. Campbell said it was “neither Greek, Latin, nor English, [but merely] a piece of language gone mad.” For this reason, Catholepistemiad became the University of Michigan in 1821. 

 

 

THE FRIDAY BLUEBOOK: 09/01/17: ANSWER B

Your answer: 1824

Close, but not quite. Most people didn't like the name “Catholepistemiad,” a.k.a U-M’s original name. The governor of the Michigan Territory at the time, Lewis Cass, referred to the young university as the “Cathole-what's its name,” and Justice James V. Campbell said it was “neither Greek, Latin, nor English, [but merely] a piece of language gone mad.” For this reason, Catholepistemiad became the University of Michigan in 1821. 

 

 

THE FRIDAY BLUEBOOK: 09/01/17: ANSWER C

Your answer: 1826

So close, yet so far. Most people didn't like the name “Catholepistemiad,” a.k.a U-M’s original name. The governor of the Michigan Territory at the time, Lewis Cass, referred to the young university as the “Cathole-what's its name,” and Justice James V. Campbell said it was “neither Greek, Latin, nor English, [but merely] a piece of language gone mad.” For this reason, Catholepistemiad became the University of Michigan in 1821.