Category Archives: Tamarack Archive

“A Boy of 1812″

Things were never really what you might call cordial between the New World and Britain during the early 1800s. There was the whole mess between the United Kingdom, Ireland, and France in 1803. And European countries were focused on keeping control of the native people as well as the America settlers as the expansion in the United States was underway. Treaties and Acts and Decrees were issued one after another between Britain and the U.S., while Britain was during these years distracted by the whirlwind of hostility France was dishing out. In fact, between 1803 and 1812, political relations never really felt settled or peaceful between the U.S., Britain, and France to the people living in these countries....

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Tamarack Archive , , , , Updated: March 4, 2016

“Children of the Cloud and Frost”

It’s often difficult to believe that some of the Tamarack publications are from the 19th century. The writing, refined and thoughtful, could have been written today. That period of time usually brings images of horse drawn carriages, oil lamps, and mustachioed male students in Bowler hats. And the women? Oh, they were at home, cinched into their corsets, raising children or reading or dusting or staying off bicycles....

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Tamarack Archive , , , , , Updated: November 23, 2015

The Athletics Edition

In June, 1907, a special edition of the Tamarack called The Young Tamarack was issued. According to an editorial published in this edition, there were two reasons for this … both relating to athletics. The first reason was the formation of the Athletics Association, which, the writer tells us, would help finance the Athletics program at the university. An association of this type would also help establish some by-laws for participation in the various sports available at the University of Detroit at that time....

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Tamarack Archive , , , , , , , Updated: July 28, 2015

“The Proposition is Peace”

In March, 1775, when Edmund Burke addressed the English House of Commons, the affairs in America had reached a crisis point.  Attempts to keep the Colonies under control were failing, and failing in a big way.  Burke decided to offer a plan to resolve the growing discontent in the Colonies in a way he hoped would be fair to all concerned.  His objective was to maintain peace by offering concessions, and it would take quite a sales job to get...

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Tamarack Archive , , , , Updated: September 3, 2015

The Great War

No one is really sure what motivated the hand that fired the gun that started the first world war in 1914. The bullets, for sure, found their targets in June of that year in Sarajevo when Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, along with his wife, Sophie, were assassinated. The events leading up to this action, however, began years before around 1871 (according to a timeline found on the PBS web site). Changes in the ruling centers of countries like Germany, Russia, and Great Britain seemed to trip a line of political dominoes that started falling into place from this point in the late 1800s to the firing of that gun in 1914. Europe seemed unsettled; the relationships between dominant countries seemed tenuous. Surely the atmosphere that hinted of the war to come was felt everywhere as the world entered its new century....

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Tamarack Archive , , , , , , , Updated: July 30, 2015

The Future of Warfare

When the 1918 edition of the Tamarack was published in June of that year, the first few pages held more advertising than content.  Slowly over time, ads had gone from simple product mentions at the end of each issues to full page graphics at the beginning.  It was obvious the Tamarack’s days were numbered.  Even the tone of the content had changed.  The early literary volumes filled with poetry and prose were now offering a more somber tone, concentrating more...

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Tamarack Archive , , , , , , , , Updated: June 18, 2015

Items of College History 1898

One of the best resources for information about the history of this university lies in the yellowing pages of the Tamarack. Through the words of the students then, it’s easy for readers to put themselves into that year and that space, and feel the slow pace of that time. The academic atmosphere of those hallowed university halls comes into sharper focus as visitors to the Tamarack archive linger with each issue....

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Tamarack Archive , , , Updated: April 23, 2015

Items of College History: The Picnic of the Acolytes

Long before the world became a blurry line of activity speeding towards the future, Detroit College was a seemingly gentle place filled with the hum of academic learning in the classical sense. Students, dressed in business attire, dutifully sat in stark classrooms memorizing dates and names and theories at wooden desks lined up properly in front of filled blackboards and pacing professors. After class, the halls were likely filled with chuckles and guffaws at jokes that have become tired and boring in the century since. It’s easy to imagine these students walking to their classroom buildings through the bustling streets of the economic boom of downtown Detroit in the late 1800s. They were the future of Detroit, rowdy and driven, and it was these students who would pen the prose and poetry that would be bound and published in the Tamarack, a student publication that appeared between 1890 and 1923....

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Tamarack Archive , , , , Updated: February 5, 2015

1914

One hundred years ago in December, 1914, the University of Detroit celebrated the upcoming holidays with a special “Xmas Number” edition of the Tamarack. The look of this issue is slightly different, but the material included is just as creative and interesting as all the others. Reading through some of the stories and poetry included in each Tamarack publication allows the reader to time travel a bit, but the December, 1914 issue offers a glimpse into Detroit’s place in a unique period in U.S. history....

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Tamarack Archive , , , Updated: November 20, 2014
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