While raising Chicago, and at first improving the health of the city, the untreated sewage and industrial waste now flowed into the Chicago River, then into Lake Michigan, polluting the primary source of fresh water for the city.

While still professor of philosophy at Michigan, Dewey and his junior colleagues, James Hayden Tufts and George Herbert Mead, together with his student James Rowland Angell, all influenced strongly by the recent publication of William James ' Principles of Psychology ( 1890 ), began to reformulate psychology, emphasizing the social environment on the activity of mind and behaviour rather than the physiological psychology of Wundt and his followers.

While Ohio refused to cede its claim, Michigan quietly occupied it for the next several years, setting up local governments, building roads, and collecting taxes throughout the area.

" While the details of the attack are disputed — Michigan claimed it fired no shots and had only discharged a few musket rounds in the air as the Ohio group retreated — the battle further infuriated both Ohioans and Michiganders and brought the two sides to the brink of all-out war.

While the idea was popular with Michigan residents, the effort failed: the judges held a midnight court before quickly retreating south of the Maumee River, where Ohio forces were positioned.

While President John F. Kennedy gets credit for creating the Peace Corps, the first initiative came from Humphrey when he introduced the first bill to create the Peace Corps in 1957 — three years prior to JFK and his University of Michigan speech.

While at the University of Michigan, he joined Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, a national fraternity for men of music, and was a member of the Men's Glee Club.

" While the public mistakenly presumes that this federal agency is hard at work conducting complicated tests on every new model of truck, van, car, and SUV, in reality, just 18 of the EPA ’ s 17, 000 employees work in the automobile-testing department in Ann Arbor, Michigan, examining 200 to 250 vehicles a year, or roughly 15 percent of new models.

While the flu was spreading among the rest of the performers, Holly's drummer, Carl Bunch, had to be hospitalized in Ironwood, Michigan, due to a severe case of frostbitten feet.

While at the University of Michigan, Page created " an inkjet printer made of LEGO bricks " ( actually a line plotter ), served as the president of the Beta Epsilon chapter of Eta Kappa Nu, and was a member of the 1993 " Maize & Blue " University of Michigan Solar Car team.

While in Ypsilanti, he also received his only formal art training, from John Goodison of Michigan State Normal College ( now known as Eastern Michigan University ).

While the village is in close proximity to the state capital and Michigan State University, it has seen little commercial development over its history.

While Brighton proper may not reflect it, Brighton's surrounding townships and communities of some 60, 000 people have median household incomes in excess of $ 90, 000, making it one of the more prosperous places in Michigan.

While all of Mackinac Island, the landform, is located within the corporate limits of the City of Mackinac Island, 82 percent of the island's landmass is owned by the State of Michigan and managed by the Mackinac Island State Park Commission ( MISPC ), so that the City itself has direct jurisdiction over only 18 percent of the island, the remainder being under direct control of the Commission.

While the shoreline areas of Grosse Ile feature the majority of historically significant places and structures, approximately a dozen 1920s era homes in the Jewell Colony subdivision, located in the middle of the island, are listed on the Michigan Register of Historic Places.

While teaching at Michigan State University in East Lansing, he began to suffer from manic depression, which fueled his poetic impetus.

While at school, she would sometimes play at Ray's Coffee House in Traverse City, Michigan.

While at Michigan, Ritzer's official academic interest was human relations, however, he reports having many other intellectual hobbies such as reading Russian novels.

While an active driver, Foyt entered into a longtime partnership with Kalamazoo, Michigan businessman Jim Gilmore, and raced under the Gilmore-Foyt Racing name for many years.

While at their new home in Michigan, Slim changes her name to Erin Shleeter, and the future looks clear and bright.

While there are over 100 Land-grant universities in the United States, she has stated that she would like Michigan State University to be the leader.

While 89 % of students come from all 83 counties in the State of Michigan, also represented are all 50 states in the U. S. and about 130 other countries.

While it is federally threatened, the Piping Plover has been listed as state endangered in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

While ceremonial, these offices no doubt gained Domitian valuable experience in the Roman Senate, and may have contributed to his later reservations about its relevance.

While there are 73 positions available within the Senate, one position is currently unoccupied.

While the Senate mustered their willing slaves, Hannibal offered his dishonoured Roman captives a chance for honourable death, in what Livy describes as something very like the Roman munus.

While there was a Carthaginian Senate, the real power was with the inner " Council of 30 Nobles " and the board of judges from ruling families known as the " Hundred and Four ".

While the Senate passed the petition on January 29, it was defeated in House of Representatives on February 18.

While a member of the Senate, Adams also served as a professor of logic at Brown University.

While he was still campaigning in Spain, the Senate began bestowing honors on Caesar.

While in Constantinople therefore it was not strange to see Julian frequently active in the Senate, participating in debates and making speeches, placing himself at the level of the other members of the Senate.

While the U. S. Senate did not add any reservation to the treaty, it did pass a measure " interpreting " the treaty which included the statement that the treaty must not infringe upon America's right of self defense and that the United States was not obliged to enforce the treaty by taking action against those who violated it.

While the Academic Senate is an independent body, it is required to make recommendations to the university Council in relation to matters outside its delegated authority.

While the PDP Democratic faction controls the Democratic party chapter under the state chairmanship of former senator Roberto Prats, two of the five DNC members residing in Puerto Rico, Senate president Kenneth McClintock and Francisco Domenech are statehooders.

While Henry in the south cooperated with the rebel Senate of Rome, Frederick I in the north blocked the passes of the Alps and cut off all communication between the Pope, then living in Verona, and his German adherents.

While Zeno told the Senate that Nepos was their lawful sovereign, he did not press the point, and accepted the imperial insignia brought to him by the senate.

While the Curiate Assembly did have the power to pass laws that had been submitted by the king, the Senate was effectively an honorary council.

While he was president in the United States Senate, a small number of anti-war senators kept it deadlocked by refusing to end debate.

While he presided in the Senate, emotions sometimes ran high, including during a debate on the Mexican border crisis in 1916.

While the Senate did pass the amendment on April 8, 1864, by a vote of 38 to 6, the House declined to do so.

While Senate customs have created supermajority rules that have diminished this Constitutional power, the Vice President still retains the ability to influence legislation ( e. g. the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 ).

While the Vice President's only constitutionally prescribed functions aside from Presidential succession relate to his role as President of the Senate, the office is commonly viewed as a component of the executive branch of the federal government.

While in the Senate, Allen was one of a group of Western Democrat expansionists who asserted that the U. S. had a valid claim to the entire Oregon Country, which was an issue during the 1844 U. S. presidential election.

While many urged him to run for the Senate seat held by Adlai Stevenson III ( even after Stevenson dropped out of the race ), Anderson had higher sights: the Republican presidential nomination.

While the Speaker is the functioning head of the House majority party, the same is not true of the President pro tempore of the Senate, whose office is primarily ceremonial and honorary.

While the title was not official, he is considered to be the first Senate Majority leader ( and in turn, the first Senate Democratic Leader ), while serving concurrently as Chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus.