Image of an article titled, "Opening of The University," The Minnesota Alumni Weekly, October 14, 1918 and students wearing gauze masks, 1918
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Title
Image of an article titled, "Opening of The University," The Minnesota Alumni Weekly, October 14, 1918 and students wearing gauze masks, 1918
Description
Graphic image of a composite of two digitized images, one overlaid on top of the other. The image includes a clipping from a digitized version of a page in the October 13, 1918 issue of The Minnesota Alumni Weekly magazine (Volume 18, Number 4) displaying the title of the magazine in addition to the text of an article titled, "Opening of the University." The text of the article is as follows:
"The University has not yet opened on account of influenza. The University high school has been open for some time and, so far, with no untoward results. The soldiers in the training detachment at the University had not been so fortunate - two of these men died in one day last week. They had been taken to the Fort Snelling hospital. There have been many cases among the men of this detachment which has been in quarantine for the past ten days or two weeks.
The induction of men into the S.A.T.C. began last Wednesday and proceeded all the week. These men go at once into quarantine for a three-weeks’ period. The whole campus has been declared a military reservation and the professors and employees have to carry passes to get to their offices. How this is going to work out when the students arrive is hard to say.
It had been hoped that the regular departments of the University might open this week but it is not certain that they will. The increase of the number of cases of the “flu” among the civilian population has suggested even more drastic measures to check it - even to forbidding all public meetings and closing all places where the public gather."
Overlaid on top of this clipping image to the right of the article text and magazine title is a black and white image obtained from a digitized version of page 120 from the Agrarian student yearbook, 1919 that depicts three University students wearing petticoats and gauze masks standing on a sidewalk with trees in the background.
"The University has not yet opened on account of influenza. The University high school has been open for some time and, so far, with no untoward results. The soldiers in the training detachment at the University had not been so fortunate - two of these men died in one day last week. They had been taken to the Fort Snelling hospital. There have been many cases among the men of this detachment which has been in quarantine for the past ten days or two weeks.
The induction of men into the S.A.T.C. began last Wednesday and proceeded all the week. These men go at once into quarantine for a three-weeks’ period. The whole campus has been declared a military reservation and the professors and employees have to carry passes to get to their offices. How this is going to work out when the students arrive is hard to say.
It had been hoped that the regular departments of the University might open this week but it is not certain that they will. The increase of the number of cases of the “flu” among the civilian population has suggested even more drastic measures to check it - even to forbidding all public meetings and closing all places where the public gather."
Overlaid on top of this clipping image to the right of the article text and magazine title is a black and white image obtained from a digitized version of page 120 from the Agrarian student yearbook, 1919 that depicts three University students wearing petticoats and gauze masks standing on a sidewalk with trees in the background.
Creator
The Minnesota Alumni Association; Agrarian Board of Editors; Darren Terpstra
Source
- Digital: The Minnesota Alumni Weekly, September 23, 1918 - November 8, 1918, Vol. 18, No. 1 - No. 7 (University Digital Conservancy).
- Physical: The Minnesota Alumni Weekly, October 14, 1918, Minnesota Alumni Weekly, Volume 18, 1918-1919, Tray 2, Minnesota Alumni Association records, ua00955/ua00956, University Archives, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Digital: The Agrarian student yearbook, 1919 (digital page 124). Physical: The Agrarian, 1912-1959, School of Agriculture records, ua00343, University Archives, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/14/archival_objects/265126
Publisher
University of Minnesota Archives
Date
October 14, 1918; 1918; 2025
Rights
Use of this resource is governed by U.S. and international copyright laws. Resource is property of the University of Minnesota. Please contact the University of Minnesota Archives for permission to publish. https://special.lib.umn.edu/uarchives
Format
Graphic Image
Language
English
Identifier
BTP_MNAlumniWeekly_1918-10-14_Agrarian1919_CompositeClipping_01
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Graphic Image
Physical Dimensions
1668 x 1371
Collection
Citation
The Minnesota Alumni Association; Agrarian Board of Editors; Darren Terpstra, “Image of an article titled, "Opening of The University," The Minnesota Alumni Weekly, October 14, 1918 and students wearing gauze masks, 1918,” Gallery, accessed November 7, 2026, https://gallery.lib.umn.edu/items/show/6759.