Dear Marquette

Then & now at Marquette University's campus. Concept by Josh Arter, Comm '12, inspired by dearphotograph.com

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#tbt Cobeen Hall, then and now.

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Throwback Thursday: Marquette’s Alumni Memorial Union Rotunda in 1990 (during the finishing touches of construction) and in 2013. Black-and-white photo source: Marquette University Archives

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The origins of @FatherMarquette in the AMU.  

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A conversation at Marquette University's Lalumiere Language Hall in 1976 and a cell phone call in 2012.

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Marquette Hall in 1990 — with an admissions tour guide and visiting family — and in 2012. 1990 photo by Scott Morris, 1991 Marquette Hilltop.

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Picture of Marquette's 75th Anniversary celebration banners (1956, "the Pursuit of Truth to Make Men Free") in its modern setting.

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The view looking south at Wisconsin Avenue and 14th Street before Raynor Library was built.

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The Joan of Arc Chapel is surrounded by a much more lush and green environment in 2012 than when the original photograph was taken.

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4 MU alums at a reunion pondering where the would have been if they didn't go to Marquette... 

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Cudahy Hall's first-floor computer lab in 1994 (with Dr. Doug Harris and Michael Cudahy at the building's grand opening) and in spring 2012.

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Real Chili at Marquette, then and now. In 1980, a bowl of Real Chili was $1.40. Today the first helping of mild or medium chili is $5.25 but still worth every spoonful.

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What a difference 24 hours makes. 

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#AMU

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13 inches of snow then, traces of snow now. The blizzard of December 1987 blanketed the campus and led Marquette to cancel some final exams. 

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Todd Wehr Chemistry at 43 degrees today and 30 degrees below zero in January 1977. Photo by Scott Feldstein.

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From 1983, "Merry Christmas from I.R.C." at Lalumiere Language Hall. Today, the Inter-Residence Council is known as RHA, the Residence Hall Association.

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The Marquette Spirit Shop -- aka the Burchill Warrior Shoppe -- 20 years ago and today.

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Dear Marquette, Thank you for Father Naus, aka the Thanksgiving Turkey of 1986. He makes us laugh.