CHAPTER XIV_The University of Michigan

THE ALUMNI OF THE UNIVERSITY

Just at present Michigan probably has the largest body of alumni of any

university in the country. The total number of graduates in January,

1920, was 34,817, of whom 28,901 were living, while the total of

graduates and former students was 60,463. Of this number 11,420 were

known to be deceased. The number of addresses on the University lists at

that time was 43,783. There are several reasons for this large alumni

body. In the first place few universities have many living graduates of

the classes which graduated before 1850; Michigan's oldest graduates at

present are George W. Carter, '53_m_, of Boulder, Colorado, and John E.

Clark, '56, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Yale. After her first

few years Michigan had as many students enrolled as most of the other

institutions of that time, while the extraordinary growth of the Medical

and Law Schools in the period just after the Civil War probably gave her

the largest number of students in any university.

This, with the great increase which has come to all universities and

particularly the state institutions within the last twenty years or so,

has given Michigan an unusually large body of alumni. There are,

however, a number of universities, notably Columbia, California, and

Chicago, which have had a very large enrolment of late years, and it is

not unlikely that within a few years their alumni catalogues will

contain more names than Michigan's. It may be remarked in connection

with the relatively large proportion of those who have not received

degrees, about 42 percent of the total, that this number has been

increased by war-time conditions, and that judging from former records

it is about ten percent higher than in more normal times.

Michigan has always taken an especial pride in the fact that, although a

state university, her student body has been recruited almost as much

from the rest of the country as from Michigan; while there has always

been a not inconsiderable proportion of students from foreign countries.

This national enrolment has had a broadening and stimulating effect upon

the student body and has given the University a powerful influence

throughout the country. Her graduates are to be found in every state in

the Union, though they are probably proportionately stronger in the

states west of the Mississippi, whose development came just in time to

attract the enterprising and vigorous youth who had his future to make

and gladly seized the opportunity to grow up with the new country.

Michigan, with her low tuition charges, even for non-residents, and her

equally moderate cost of living, has been also pre-eminently a college

for students of limited means. Thus, while there are many men of wealth

among her alumni, they are almost all men who have made their own way,

and have a position in their communities corresponding to their energy

and proved ability.

For some years the attendance from Michigan, though it is somewhat

greater now, has averaged 55 percent. This is unusually significant when

the great extent of the State is considered, particularly since most of

the students from the Northern Peninsula usually pass through three

other states to reach Ann Arbor. Not less worthy of note is the fact

that only about 39 percent of the graduates of the University live

within the State, proof positive that Michigan, in sending her students

abroad, is performing a great service for the country. The percentages

of alumni in other states is also not without interest, for while the

neighboring states of Illinois and Ohio claim about 8 percent and

Indiana 3.7 percent, New York has 6 percent of Michigan's graduates,

while Pennsylvania has 3.5 percent, and California 3.2 percent. About

2.5 percent of Michigan's former students, or 1,093, live in foreign

countries. Of these 318 are in Canada, 126 in China, 62 in Great

Britain, 61 in South America, 51 in Africa, and 46 in Japan. Of the

United States dependencies, 66 are in Porto Rico, 54 in the Philippines,

and 17 in Alaska. These figures might easily be increased were the

addresses of all alumni found, as there are, no doubt, a large number of

"unknowns" in foreign countries. Of the total number of graduates and

foreign students for whom the University has addresses, 36,492 are men

and 7,291 are women.

This great body of alumni is in itself a powerful asset for the

University; but the active interest and spirit of co-operation of the

individual alumnus ordinarily needs a certain stimulus. This is supplied

through the organization of the graduates into a general Alumni

Association, as well as into local associations in most of the larger

cities, and also through the organization of the various classes. This

general scheme is followed in almost every American university, and

forms one of the most significant of present-day developments. For the

most part it is a comparatively recent evolution. Though the graduates

of the earlier American colleges had a certain influence on the policies

and growth of their institutions, it is only within the last twenty-five

years that these associations have become a factor of recognized

importance in every university. In fact this development is so recent

that its significance is not sufficiently realized, least of all

perhaps by the alumni themselves; though the college president is apt to

be very alive to the importance of the alumni in university affairs.

The desire to perpetuate college friendships and to revive memories of

college days was undoubtedly the underlying motive which first brought

the former students together in these organizations; and not a few

associations have progressed no farther in their activities. This is as

true among Michigan alumni clubs as elsewhere. But as university

officers came to recognize other possibilities in these associations,

efforts were made to secure their co-operation in many matters and

especially financial assistance, in the establishment of funds for

various purposes, the erection of new buildings and providing for

certain types of equipment which might not properly come from the

ordinary channels of college and university income. The Michigan Union,

Hill Auditorium, the women's dormitories, and the Clements Library of

Americana perhaps best illustrate this type of alumni support.

While in most cases the impetus toward this active co-operation and

support on the part of the alumni came from the institution, in recent

years the alumni have tended more and more to organize, not as an

adjunct of the university administration, but as a body designed to

formulate independent alumni opinion, and to make intelligent graduate

sentiment really effective for the good of the institution. With this

new phase of alumni activity came new elements--particularly the alumni

secretary, maintained by the graduate body, the alumni journal, and the

alumni council.

This organization of college graduates is distinctly an American

institution. There is little to correspond in Continental universities,

where they do not even have a real equivalent to our word "alumni." In

Great Britain, the graduates of the larger institutions have some voice

in the policies of their universities and, in the case of the Scottish

universities, they elect representatives on the governing body, as well

as the chancellor and a representative in Parliament. But the lists of

alumni are kept up only for what are practically political purposes, and

such developments as local alumni clubs, or class reunions, are unknown;

while there is ordinarily small effort made to secure financial support.

Alumni co-operation has progressed so rapidly within the last

quarter-century,--the period covering the life of the Association at

Michigan under its present form,--that we are apt to forget how recent

is this movement in American universities. To glance through the average

college or university history one would imagine these associations

sprang full-armed, with no preliminary throes of organization. Suddenly

we find the alumni asserting their desires in some important matter and

thenceforth their voice has a recognized place in university councils.

It is quite obvious that the significance of this movement among college

graduates was not recognized for a long time. Everywhere the graduates

were slow in finding themselves; and it is safe to say that an efficient

alumni sentiment was almost unknown until within the last fifty years.

But the seeds had been sown. Though Yale began her remarkable

organization by classes as far back as 1792, and others may have

followed her example, records of any further efforts in this direction

are difficult to find until many years later.

The first attempt at a general alumni organization seems to have been a

meeting of the alumni at Williams College at Commencement time, in 1821,

to organize a Society of Alumni. The purpose of the proposed

association was set forth in the following words:

The meeting is notified at the request of a number of gentlemen,

educated at this institution, who are desirous that the true state

of the college be known to the alumni, and that the influence and

patronage of those it has educated may be united for its support,

protection, and improvement.

This does not seem an unsatisfactory definition of the fundamental

object of an alumni body of the present day. Seventeen years later a

Society of Alumni was organized at the University of Virginia, where,

with perhaps a characteristic Southern emphasis on the social side of

human relationships, the committee was instructed,--

to invite the alumni to form a permanent society, to offer to

graduates an inducement to revisit the seat of their youthful

studies and to give new life to disinterested friendships found in

student days.

Other universities soon followed with similar organizations. Harvard's

Alumni Association was established in 1840; Bowdoin and Amhert came at

about the same time, while the first alumni association at Columbia was

founded in 1854. In the West an alumni association was started at Miami

as early as 1832. The first years of these organizations were apparently

a period of struggle, but the spirit that they represented grew, and

eventually they made alumni influence everywhere effective to a greater

or less degree, with the end not yet.

At Michigan, alumni organization has had a history similar to that in

many other institutions. The University published a list of the first

four classes as far back as 1848, but the alumni did not become a

united body until 1860, fifteen years after the first class was

graduated. This first association was characterized as "somewhat

informal in its nature," but the usual statement of the object was

forthcoming. According to the preamble of the constitution these were,--

the improvement of its members, the perpetuation of pleasant

associations, the promotion of the interests of the University, and

through that of the interests of higher education in general.

This Association was superseded in June, 1875, by an incorporated

organization, the "Society of the Alumni of the University of Michigan,"

in which, notwithstanding its general name, membership was restricted to

graduates of the collegiate department. A similar association of the Law

School was formed in 1871 and before many years all the departments had

similar bodies. But the interest taken was more or less perfunctory, and

in 1897 a consolidation of all the departmental organizations was

effected, resulting in the present Alumni Association of the University

of Michigan, with ex-Regent Levi L. Barbour, '63, '65_l_, as its first

President.

He was succeeded in June, 1899, by William E. Quinby, '58, of Detroit,

who was followed in turn the next year by Regent W.J. Cocker, '69. Judge

Victor H. Lane, '74_e_, '78_l_, Fletcher Professor of Law, was elected

President in 1901, and so effectively has he served the interests of the

alumni that he has been continued in that office for the past twenty

years.

Two important steps were taken by the new Association immediately upon

its consolidation in 1897. The first was the appointment of a General

Secretary to devote his whole time to furthering the interests of the

alumni organization. Ralph H. McAllister, a former member of the law

class of '89, was first elected to this position, but was succeeded in

January, 1898, by James H. Prentiss, '96, who was followed three years

later by Shirley W. Smith, '97, at present Secretary of the University.

The present Alumni Secretary, Wilfred B. Shaw, '04, was appointed in

October, 1904. The purchase of the graduate journal, _The Michigan

Alumnus_, established in 1894 by Alvick A. Pearson, '94, was another

significant step. The _Alumnus_ is one of the oldest graduate

publications in the country, with the _Yale Alumni Weekly_, established

in 1891, and the _Harvard Graduates' Magazine_, a quarterly, which

appeared a year later, its only predecessors. Both of these journals are

published by private corporations, as was the _Alumnus_ at first. In

thus creating an officer whose sole responsibility was to the alumni

body and in maintaining an official alumni publication, Michigan became

a pioneer among Western universities, and was only preceded in the East

by Pennsylvania, whose alumni organization had established her _Alumni

Register_ and appointed an alumni secretary in 1895.

The plan of organization of the Alumni Association at Michigan is very

simple. The entire responsibility for the affairs of the Association

rests with a board of seven directors (originally but five), who elect

the officers of the Association from among their own number. Two

directors are ordinarily elected every year at the annual alumni

meeting, held during the Commencement season, at which any alumnus is

entitled to a vote. The income of the Association, except for a grant of

$600 a year from the University for advertising, arises entirely from

the _Alumnus_, which at present has a list of over 7,000 subscribers,

who are considered as constituting the official membership of the

Association. This membership is in two forms, annual members and some

1,500 life members, whose thirty-five dollar fees have resulted in an

endowment fund at present amounting to over $38,000, the income from

which is used for current expenses.

Since its establishment the _Alumnus_ has grown steadily in influence,

and may now be regarded, in some measure at least, as the official

University publication. Limited as it is by the necessity of pleasing a

constituency widely varied in age and interests, it nevertheless makes

it possible for a large proportion of Michigan's graduates to maintain

an effective and intelligent interest in the University.

But the work of the Association and its officers has not stopped with

the _Alumnus_. The local alumni bodies and the class organizations form

important links between the graduate and his alma mater, and the

sentimental ties, as well as the altruistic spirit engendered by these

associations have a vital significance for the individual graduate and

for the University. Practically every class that leaves the University

is organized for the purpose of perpetuating its college associations

and many of the classes, particularly the earlier ones, have published

extensive class-books and directories. Every effort is made to return to

the University for reunions at stated periods, especially on the

twenty-five and fifty year anniversaries. For some years also many

classes have followed a plan which brings four classes that were in

college together back for a reunion at the same time. The value of these

annual home-comings has always been emphasized by the Alumni

Association, and so successful has it been in making the reunion season

interesting and stimulating that the graduates return in great numbers,

sometimes in a carnival spirit, and sometimes, as during the recent war

years, with a sense of consecration and devotion. Thus it was easy to

pass from the gay fun of a burlesque commencement in Hill Auditorium,

which was the feature of one reunion season, to the commemoration of Dr.

Angell's life and services in 1916, and the great patriotic meetings of

1918 and 1919, which struck the deepest chords of alumni sentiment.

No less effective in their own field are the many local alumni clubs in

all the large cities throughout the country. This movement toward

forming local bodies began in Detroit in 1869, and quickly spread, so

that by 1876 the Michigan graduates as far west as San Francisco were

organized. While the primary reason for the existence of these clubs is

the maintenance of the social and sentimental ties inspired by the

common love of their members for the University, stimulated usually by

an annual dinner and, in many cities, by weekly or monthly luncheons,

they have begun to discover means more positive and useful to justify

their existence. From a vague, if none the less real, feeling of loyalty

to the University it is an easy step to more aggressive measures. Thus

we find the local bodies interesting themselves actively in the

University's affairs, organizing subscription campaigns for the Union,

raising funds for fellowships, and sending picked students to the

University, interesting themselves in the ever-present athletic

problems, and welcoming the President and other representatives from the

Faculties who come to tell them what their alma mater is accomplishing.

More than this, some associations are perceiving broader implications in

their organization as representative college men and women,--for the

alumnae, too, have very active clubs,--and are seeking opportunities for

civic and social service in their communities. At present Michigan has

nearly one hundred of these local organizations of alumni which may be

considered active, while there are many more who only need to have some

task set before them to bring them into an active and aggressive

existence.

It is only natural that, with this increasing participation of the

alumni in university affairs, there should be an effort to provide some

means for the effectual expression of their collective opinion. Perhaps

the earliest and most striking example of this movement was the

provision in 1865 for the election of Harvard's Board of Overseers "by

such persons as have received the degree of B.A. or M.A., or any

honorary degree," from Harvard College. This effort, which came only

after a long struggle, was duplicated in Princeton, Dartmouth, later

Cornell, and many other institutions. Even some of the state

universities, whose regents are either elected by the people, as at

Michigan, or appointed by the governor, as in other states, have made

provision for direct alumni representation on their governing boards.

Though this is not true at Michigan it is significant that of the eight

members of the Board of Regents, six, Walter H. Sawyer, '84_h_,

Hillsdale; Victor M. Gore, '82_l_, Benton Harbor; Junius E. Beal, '82,

Ann Arbor; Frank B. Leland, '82, '84_l_, Detroit; William L. Clements,

'82, Bay City, and James O. Murfin, '95, 96_l_, Detroit, hold degrees

from the University and this proportion has held true for many years.

The other two members of the present Board are Benjamin S. Hanchett,

Grand Rapids, and L.L. Hubbard, Harvard, '72, Houghton. Shirley W.

Smith, '97, also is Secretary of the University.

Lacking the stimulus of direct representation in the governing body, the

alumni of the state universities have directed their efforts toward

strengthening the general alumni organization as the best available

means of expressing the sentiment of an increasingly important portion

of the university body. To further this desire alumni councils and other

bodies with advisory powers have been established, though usually their

status has been uncertain and their powers negligible, except as they

voice a body of opinion which the university cannot afford to overlook.

Thus the Michigan Alumni Advisory Council, established some years ago,

composed of representatives from the local alumni bodies, has been for

various reasons far from an effective body, though it contains the germ

of a force which may become active whenever a proper occasion may arise.

More competent, because less unwieldy, is the Executive Committee

composed of five members of the Council and two chosen at large. This

body, though it has only met semi-occasionally, has initiated several

movements which have had a real influence on the relations between the

University and the graduates. This has been particularly true in matters

relating to alumni support for the Union, and the problems arising in

connection with its administration.

In its earlier years the Alumni Association also undertook to keep up

the alumni catalogue and maintained for some time a card index of the

alumni. This task, however, eventually outgrew the resources of the

Association, and in 1910 the alumni catalogue was transferred to

addressograph plates by a special appropriation, and its maintenance was

made a part of the regular administrative work of the University, with a

separate officer, closely associated with the Alumni Association,

appointed to maintain the lists and edit the catalogues. The labor

involved in keeping this list of over 40,000 names even approximately up

to date may be judged from the fact that the catalogue office now

includes four assistants as well as the Director, Mr. H.L. Sensemann,

'11, of the Department of Rhetoric.

For some years the practice was continued of including in the annual

calendar an "Alumnorum catalogus," which began in 1848 with the names of

the fifty-six graduates of the first four classes. The list eventually

became too long, however, and in 1864 the first General Catalogue was

issued as a forty-page pamphlet which included 999 names. Four

subsequent editions have appeared, in 1871, 1891, 1901 and 1911, in

addition to a privately published volume issued in 1880. The slender

pamphlet of 1864 became, in 1911, a volume of 1,096 pages which recorded

43,666 names, while the catalogue of 1921 will be even more impressive.

Though the interest and enthusiasm of the graduates is expressed in many

less spectacular ways, the amount of alumni gifts is the most available

standard by which the effectiveness of this support can be shown. Judged

by this rough and ready approximation for a force which is in reality

intangible and based on something finer and more spiritual than material

gifts, particularly since it represents obviously only the sentiment of

the few rather than that of the thousands who would do likewise if they

were able, it shows nevertheless how responsively the University's

alumni regard her call for their support. They have given their alma

mater funds and property whose estimated value may be conservatively

placed at from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000. This includes many gifts of

small sums for loan funds, fellowships, and investigations in special

fields, as well as the income from these funds up to the present time.

Some of these gifts, too, are of such a character that no definite value

can be placed upon them.

The total amount of such special funds in the hands of the University

Treasurer, largely arising from alumni gifts, is $843,815.40. It should

also be borne in mind that this does not include the many gifts which do

not come from graduates of the University, such as the Newberry Hall of

Residence, the late Charles L. Freer's numerous gifts, including a fund

of $50,000 for the study of Oriental art, the Lewis Art collection, the

Stearns Musical Collections, Waterman Gymnasium and Ferry Field, or such

buildings as Newberry Hall, now used by the Y.W.C.A., and Lane Hall, for

the University Y.M.C.A.

[Illustration: THE CONCOURSE OR GENERAL LOBBY IN THE MICHIGAN UNION]

Two of the larger gifts to the University have come through collective

effort on the part of the alumni. The Michigan Union, made possible

through the $1,200,000 raised by students and alumni, has been mentioned

in another chapter. Alumni Memorial Hall, which stands just across the

street, is also largely the result of comparatively small gifts from

hundreds of graduates. It is an imposing building of classical outlines,

designed as a memorial of the men who served in the Civil and

Spanish-American Wars. It is intended to be at once an art gallery and

the headquarters of the Alumni Association, which has a spacious

reception room on the first floor and commodious offices in the

basement, where the University Club also has a large and well-furnished

room. The building was completed in 1910 at a cost of $195,000, of which

$145,000 was contributed by the alumni, and was formally opened with an

exhibition of Oriental art and the work of modern American painters

under the charge of the late Charles M. Freer of Detroit, who loaned

many of the pictures shown.

Other gifts arising from general alumni effort are the Williams

Professorship fund and the Alumnae Hall of Residence for women, given to

the University by the alumnae; while Faculty, alumni, and student

efforts have been responsible for several paintings, notably the Chase

portrait of Dr. Angell, the portrait of Dr. V.C. Vaughan by Gari

Melchers, and Ralph Clarkson's recent picture of President Hutchins,

which is to hang with Dr. Angell's portrait in the Union.

The greater portion of alumni gifts, however, have come from individual

graduates. These include such monumental benefactions as the Hill

Auditorium, for which a bequest of $200,000 was left by the late Regent

Arthur Hill, '65_e_, of Saginaw; the Martha Cook Building which was

completed at a cost of about $500,000 by the Cook family of Hillsdale,

the Betsy Barbour Dormitory, costing some $100,000 given by ex-Regent

Levi L. Barbour, '63, '65_l_, of Detroit, and the great library of

American history, with its special building, given by Regent William L.

Clements, '82_e_, of Bay City. This library, which is reported to have

cost $400,000, and has been judged by experts to be worth much more than

that now, and the $200,000 building to come, represent a princely gift.

Ex-Regent Barbour also gave, in 1917, a fund of $100,000 to be used for

providing scholarships for Oriental women in the University. To this he

added two years later property in Detroit from which the income alone,

during the term of the ninety-nine years' lease now in effect upon it,

will amount to nearly $2,500,000. The sum of $100,000 was also left by

the late Professor Richard Hudson, '71, to establish a professorship in

history, at present held by Professor Arthur Lyon Cross, Harvard, '95.

Professor Hudson also left his library to the University, which has

benefited by many similar gifts from alumni, notably the historical

books given by Clarence M. Burton, '73, the library of Thomas S. Jerome,

'84, of Capri, Italy, and the musical library presented by Frederick and

Frederick K. Stearns, '73-'76, as well as the libraries of several

members of the Faculties given the University upon their death. These

include the library in Romance Literature of Professor Edward L. Walter,

'68, the philosophical library of Professor George S. Morris, '81

(hon.), the Germanic Library of Professor George A. Hench, the

geological library of Professor Israel C. Russell, and the classical

library of Professor Elisha Jones, '59.

Too numerous to mention in detail are the many special gifts for

research, such as the continual funds for the work of the University

Museum supplied by Bryant Walker, '76, of Detroit, or the large

telescope and other gifts to the Department of Astronomy by Robert P.

Lamont, '91_e_, of Chicago, or for fellowships, the purchase of books,

educational material, and scientific apparatus, as well as the numerous

funds left for various designated purposes and administered by the

University.

The various memorials left by the graduating classes should not be

forgotten in this connection, though some of them, owing to poor

judgment, have been ill-adapted to the purposes they were intended to

serve and have more or less mysteriously disappeared. Perhaps the best

known example was the ill-fated statue of Ben Franklin, long a Campus

landmark, left by the class of '70. Early in his academic course he

became the victim of the paint-buckets of successive classes, and

eventually his outlines became so blurred that he was perforce retired.

Aside from the tree-planting efforts of '58, the first class memorial

was the reproduction of the Laocoön group, now in Alumni Memorial Hall,

presented by '59. Reproductions of painting and sculpture were for many

years the favored forms of class memorials, of which the most unique and

valuable was the complete set of casts from the arch of Trajan at

Beneventum, presented by '96. In recent years many classes have left

portraits of members of the various Faculties, while others have left

loan funds which have been of inestimable service to many worthy but

impecunious students.

The University chimes, a peal of five bells, presented by James J.

Hagerman, '61, Edward C. Hegeler, and Andrew D. White, must not be

forgotten. They are now in the tower of the Engineering Shops, whence

they were removed when the old Library was torn down.

Perhaps the most far-reaching in its effects was the fund left by 1916.

This was accompanied by a recommendation to the General Alumni

Association that an alumni fund be created of which their contribution

was to be the nucleus. The Association took measures to act upon this

suggestion, but owing to the war and the preoccupation of the alumni in

the Union, its establishment was delayed for several years. The plan for

this fund, as finally approved in 1920, provides for an incorporated

board of nine directors, the first members of which were appointed by

the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association. This project, while

still in its formative stage, has great possibilities for the future of

the University, judged by the success of similar funds in other

institutions. This is particularly true at Yale, where the alumni fund

amounts to nearly $2,000,000 in addition to some $1,500,000 given for

various purposes.

There are obvious advantages in thus organizing the stream of alumni

gifts now beginning to flow so strongly toward the University. It not

only provides a trustworthy and conservative body to which any gift may

be entrusted, whether in the form of a class fund, individual

contribution, or bequest, but it also ensures that all such gifts which

are unrestricted, shall be utilized wherever, in the judgment of the

Directors, the University's need is greatest. The existence of such a

fluid source of income properly administered can be made of incalculable

benefit, particularly in the numerous critical occasions, when the

regular income is entirely unequal to the emergency, though it is not

proposed to relieve the State from providing for the normal needs of the

University, but to meet the special demands which are continually

arising in such an institution. Finally, the existence and

administration of such a fund will tend to tie the alumni to the

University as could no other agency, particularly if, as elsewhere, a

good part of the income arises from small annual subscriptions,

collected by a class officer, who remits the total as a class

contribution.

Thus, though the alumni of the University have no direct voice in the

administration, as have the graduates in many other institutions, they

have established several agencies through which their natural desire to

have a recognized share in University affairs may be expressed. These

include first of all the General Alumni Association, with its many

subsidiary class and local organizations, which maintains the _Alumnus_

as its official organ, and with at least the outlines of an advisory

body in the Alumni Council with its Executive Committee. The alumni also

have further means of associating themselves with the affairs of the

University through the power of appointment of a majority of the members

of the Board of Governors of the Michigan Union and the Directors of the

Alumni Fund, which rests with the Directors of the Alumni Association;

while the four alumni members of the Board of Directors of the Union are

likewise elected by the alumni at large at the annual meeting in June.

With so large and widely distributed a body of graduates it is to be

expected that many have become prominent in the life of the country, and

in their professions. An analysis of the names of Michigan men and women

in "Who's Who" for 1912-13 showed that, exclusive of the holders of

honorary degrees and Summer School students, the names of 604 former

students appeared, of whom 498 were graduates and 106 were

non-graduates. This is approximately 3.2 percent of the total names

given in that edition, and was 6 percent of the college graduates

listed. There is no reason to suppose that the same percentages at least

would not apply in a similar survey of the latest edition.

While it is, for obvious reasons, impossible to give the names of all

graduates who have achieved a certain measure of distinction, a few who

have attained special prominence in their special fields may be

mentioned.

It is most natural that Michigan alumni should figure prominently in the

educational world. Thus, among college presidents, in addition to

President Hutchins, '71, Michigan can claim Charles Kendall Adams, '61,

President of Cornell University from 1885 to 1892, and later, 1892 to

1901, of Wisconsin; Mark Harrington, '68, University of Washington;

Austin Scott, A.M., '70, Rutgers; Alice Freeman Palmer, '76, Wellesley,

1881-87; Henry Wade Rogers, '74, formerly President of Northwestern, and

later Dean of the Yale Law School; Elmer Ellsworth Brown, '89, New York

University; and Stratton D. Brooks, '96, Oklahoma.

Aside from the many distinguished graduates on her own Faculty rolls,

Michigan has also for many years been well represented in the faculties

of all the leading American universities. At Harvard these include

Edwin L. Mark, '71, Professor of Anatomy; Paul Hanus, '78, Head of the

Department of Education; and Edwin F. Gay, '90, until recently Dean of

the School of Business Administration; at Yale, John E. Clark, '56, for

many years Professor of Mathematics, and the late Professor Willard T.

Barbour, '05, of the Law School; at Columbia, the late Calvin Thomas,

'74, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Henry R. Seager,

'90, Professor of Economics; at Dartmouth, Gabriel Campbell, '65, long

Professor of Philosophy; and Frank H. Dixon, '92, Professor of

Economics, later occupying the same chair at Princeton; where are also

Duane Reed Stuart, '96, Professor of Greek, Christian Gauss, '98,

Professor of Romance Languages, and Edward S. Corwin, '00, who now holds

the chair of Political Science, formerly occupied by President Wilson.

At Tufts, Amos Dolbear, '67_e_, was for many years Professor of Physics.

The Johns Hopkins faculty roll shows the names of Henry M. Hurd, '63,

'66_m_, Professor of Psychiatry; John H. Abel, '83_m_, Professor of

Pharmacology; Franklin P. Mall, '83_m_, Professor of Anatomy, and

Herbert S. Jennings, '93, Professor of Biology. At Cornell, Jeremiah W.

Jenks, '78, was for many years Professor of Social Science and Economics

and now holds a research professorship in New York University. L.M.

Dennis, '85, is also Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Cornell.

As is natural, many Michigan teachers are to be found in practically all

the Western universities, although only a few can be mentioned. Thus at

Chicago are Andrew C. McLaughlin, '82, Professor of American History,

James R. Angell, '90, who was Professor of Psychology and Dean of the

Graduate School until he became President of the Carnegie Foundation in

1920; and at Wisconsin, J.B. Johnson, '78, who was, until his death in

1902, Dean of the Engineering College, and George C. Comstock, '77,

Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory; while at

Minnesota Edward VanDyke Robinson, '90, is Professor of Economics, and

John B. Johnston, '93, Professor of Comparative Neurology and Dean of

the College, and for a short period the late John R. Allen, '92_e_,

formerly at Michigan, was Dean of the Engineering Department. At Ohio

State University may be mentioned Stillman W. Robinson, '63, Professor

of Mechanical Engineering until 1910, George W. Knight, '78, Professor

of American History, and Joseph V. Denney, '85, Professor of English,

and Dean of the College of Arts; and, at Nebraska, Herbert H. Vaughan,

'03, Professor of Modern Languages. One of the oldest of Michigan's

educators is Professor William J. Beal, '59, Professor of Botany at

Michigan Agricultural College from 1871 to 1910.

On the Western coast, Alexander F. Lange, '85, Professor of German at

the University of California, and Dean of the Faculties, has also served

as Acting-President; while other representatives of Michigan are Charles

M. Gayley, '78, Professor of English, Bernard Moses, '70, Professor of

History and Political Science, and Armin O. Leuschner, '88, Professor of

Astronomy. At Stanford are George Hempl, '79, Professor of Germanic

Philology, Ephraim D. Adams, '87, Professor of History, and Douglas

Campbell, '82, Professor of Botany.

Among Michigan graduates in foreign universities may be mentioned the

names of Stephen Langdon, '98, Professor of Assyriology at Oxford, the

late Alfred Senier, '74_m_, Professor of Chemistry at the National

University of Ireland at Galway, and Masakozu Toyama, '73-'76, Dean of

the College of Literature at Tokio until his death in 1900, and founder

of the study of sociology in Japan.

Though most of the men of attainment in science have continued in

University positions, Robert S. Woodward, 72_e_, President of the

Carnegie Institution, Charles F. Brush, '69_e_, the inventor of the arc

light, Otto Klotz, '72_e_, Director of the Dominion of Canada

Observatory at Ottawa, William W. Campbell, '86_e_, Director of the Lick

Observatory, and Heber D. Curtiss, '92, at the same observatory, may be

mentioned as exceptions. All but the last were graduates of the

Engineering Department, among whose graduates are also to be numbered

A.A. Robinson, '69_e_, the late President of the Santa Fé and Mexican

Central railroads, Alfred Noble, '70_e_, until his death the leading

American engineer, Henry G. Prout, '71_e_, one time governor of the

Equatorial Provinces of Africa and later editor of the _Railroad

Gazette_, Cornelius Donovan, '72_e_, the builder of the great jetties at

the mouth of the Mississippi, Joseph Ripley, '76, the designer of the

Panama Canal locks, and Howard Coffin, '03, automobile engineer, and

chairman of the war-time aviation board.

Aside from the graduates of the Medical School who have made

distinguished records on other medical faculties, the names of many

prominent practitioners and medical writers might be mentioned,

including Edmund Andrews, '49, '52_m_, an organizer of the Medical

School of Northwestern University, and founder of the Chicago Academy of

Sciences, Lewis S.F. Pilcher, '66_m_, the founder of _The Annals of

Surgery_, William J. Mayo, '83_m_, the distinguished surgeon of

Rochester, Minnesota, and Woods Hutchinson, '84_m_, of New York, a

popular writer on medical subjects. Among the Michigan graduates who

have made a record in the legal profession are to be found an unusual

number of distinguished occupants of the bench, including William L.

Day, '70, of the United States Supreme Court, who was Secretary of State

under McKinley and Chairman of the Board of Peace Commissioners after

the war with Spain, William B. Gilbert, '72_l_, Judge of the Ninth U.S.

Circuit at Portland, Oregon, Loyal E. Knappen, '73, and Arthur Dennison,

'83_l_, of the Sixth Circuit, and Francis E. Baker, '82_l_, of the

Seventh Circuit. There are twelve other Michigan graduates in the

Federal District judiciary in addition to John E. Carland, _l_'74-'75,

Circuit Judge assigned to the Court of Commerce at Washington, and

Fenton W. Booth, '92_l_, of the U.S. Court of Claims. Among legal

authors are Melvin M. Bigelow, '66, '68_l_, Dean of the Boston

University Law School, and recognized authority on jurisprudence and

legal history, William W. Cook, '80, '82_l_, who not only has been a

great benefactor to the University, but is perhaps the best-known author

on private corporations, as well as counsel for several of the leading

telegraph and cable companies.

Among the graduates of the University in high government positions have

been Don M. Dickinson, '67, Postmaster-General under Cleveland, and J.

Sterling Morton, '54, Secretary of Agriculture during Cleveland's second

term, when Edwin F. Uhl, '62, was also acting Secretary of State and

later Ambassador to Germany. Other diplomatic posts have been filled by

Thomas W. Palmer, '49, Minister to Spain under Harrison, William E.

Quinby, '58, Minister to Holland under Cleveland, Thomas J. O'Brien,

'65_l_, Minister to Denmark and later Ambassador to Japan and Italy

under Roosevelt and Taft, and William Graves Sharp, '81_l_, Ambassador

to France under Wilson. Michigan has for many years had a large

representation in both Houses of Congress; for example in 1913 there

were eight former students of the University in the Senate, of whom five

held degrees, and twenty-two in the House. Senator Cushman K. Davis,

'57, who died in 1900, was among the conspicuous leaders of his time,

while of the present generation are Porter J. McCumber, '80_l_, of North

Dakota, Gilbert Hitchcock, 81_l_, of Nebraska, and Charles S. Thomas,

'71_l_, and John F. Shafroth, '75, of Colorado.

In various forms of public service as well as in the business world

Michigan's graduates occupy prominent places: William C. Braisted, '83,

is Surgeon-General of the Navy, Laurence Maxwell, '74, succeeded Charles

H. Aldrich, '75, as Solicitor-General of the State Department in 1893,

Major-General John Biddle, who left the University for West Point in

1877, served as chief of staff, and later head of the American forces in

England during the world war, Charles S. Burch, '75, is now Bishop of

the New York Diocese, Dean C. Worcester, '89, was Secretary of the

Interior on the Philippine Commission, Charles B. Warren, '91, has been

counsel for this country before the Hague Tribunal, Royal S. Copeland,

'84_h_, is Health Commissioner for New York City, and Earl D. Babst,

'93, is President of the American Sugar Refining Company. Among

architects Michigan numbers Irving K. Pond, '79, the designer of the

Union, and President of the American Institute of Architects, 1910-11,

and among landscape architects, O.C. Simonds, '78_e_, of Chicago.

Many alumni have turned to literature, and the names of not a few,

particularly among the more recent graduates, are continuously appearing

in different magazines and reviews. Particularly well known are Stewart

Edward White, '95, Katharine Holland Brown, '98, Franklin P. Adams,

'03, and Harry A. Franck, '03, no less well known as an unconventional

traveler. Michigan has also left her mark in journalism, from Liberty E.

Holden, '58, editor and publisher of the Cleveland _Plain Dealer_ and

William E. Quinby, of the same class, of the old _Detroit Free Press_,

to Edward S. Beck, '93, managing editor of the Chicago _Tribune_, S.

Beach Conger, '00, who was in charge of the European service of the

Associated Press during the Great War, Paul Scott Mowrer, a one-time

member of the class of '09, who was the Paris representative of the

Chicago _Daily News_, and Karl Harriman, '98, editor of the _Ladies Home

Journal_ and author of "Ann Arbor Tales," (1902).

As with the men so with the women graduates of the University. Their

ranks include, in addition to the President of Wellesley, many important

positions in the university world, including Angie Chapin, '75,

Professor of Greek, and the late Katharine Coman, '80, Professor of

History and Economics, at Wellesley, and Gertrude Buck, '94, Professor

of English at Vassar. Among alumnae particularly prominent in science

are Mrs. Mary Hegeler Carus, '90_e_, the first woman to graduate from

the Engineering College, who is president of a large manufacturing

company and secretary of the Open Court Publishing Company, and the late

Marion S. Parker, '95_e_, who as a structural engineer has had a large

share in the designing of some of the monumental buildings of New York.

Annie S. Peck, '78, is also well known as a traveler and mountain

climber.

In the medical profession there have been many alumnae of prominence,

notably Dr. Alice Hamilton, '93_m_, who has recently become Assistant

Professor of Industrial Medicine in the Harvard Medical School, and Dr.

Harriet Alexander, who has become an authority on diseases of the

nervous system. Two Chinese graduates of the medical school, Dr. Ida

Kahn, '96_m_, and Dr. Mary Stone, '96_m_, have done a great work for

their fellow countrymen in their large hospital at Kiu Kiang.

TABLE I

THE INCOME OF THE UNIVERSITY, BY TEN-YEAR PERIODS

_Showing Principal Sources_

Special Appro-

Year Total Income from Mill-Tax Tuition priations and

Income[4] State Lands Fees, etc. Savings for

Buildings[5]

1849-'50 $16,286.22 $15,088.23 $1,006.87

1859-'60 39,735.77 28,409.76 5,705.43

1869-'70 84,966.08 30,000.00 20,039.04 $11,250.00

1880-'81[6] 163,034.40 38,531.59 $31,500.00 63,745.13 15,000.00

1889-'90 360,308.16 38,651.00 47,272.50 100,814.92 147,589.08

1899-'00 555,623.90 38,228.82 281,583.43 185,350.31 12,000.00

1909-'10 1,573,540.14 38,511.63 585,258.75 327,169.53 334,043.46

1919-'20 3,802,164.27 38,428.89 1,687,500.00 682,445.16 659,250.00

[Footnote 4: These totals include, in addition to the items shown,

balances on hand, temporary loans, sales of material, and, in later

years, hospital fees.]

[Footnote 5: This includes also appropriations for deficits, as well as

savings from the income from the mill-tax over a period of years, drawn

out for the erection of buildings.]

[Footnote 6: The Treasurer's Report for 1879-'80 covered fifteen months,

and therefore cannot properly be used for comparison.]

TABLE II

THE FACULTY AND STUDENTS

_By Ten-Year Periods_

Year # of # of ---------------------------Number of Students-------------------------------

Faculty Grad- Lit- Medi- Law Phar- Homeo- Den- Engineer- Grad- Summer Total

exclus- uates erary cine macy pathic tis- ing and uate[7] Session

ive of try Architec-

Assist- ture

ants ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

1850 7 12 72 72

1860 28 109 267 167 92 526

1870 32 339 426 338 308 36[8] 4 1,112

1880 53 415 435 350 395 81 70 83 13 1,427

1890 86 554 929 372 533 83 72 103 78 2,153

1900 166 766 1,254 500 837 76 70 247 280 89 263 3,441

1910 318 1,029 1,841 318 833 97 77 216 1,334 168 1,224 5,383

1920 494 1,142[9] 5,007 394 382 99 42 350 2,038 340 1,961 9,401[10]

[Footnote 7: The figures given for the graduate students, except in

1920, include only those enrolled in the Literary College. The figures

for 1890 include 33 studying _in absentia_.]

[Footnote 8: Included in the Literary Department until 1876.]

[Footnote 9: The proportion of graduates in 1920 is relatively lower

owing to the large enrolment of former soldiers in the lower classes.]

[Footnote 10: This total includes 222 nurses in the two training

schools.]

TABLE III

THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ALUMNI AND STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY

OF MICHIGAN, FEBRUARY, 1920

Alumni (Graduates and Former Students) Students in

whose addresses are known University

--------------------------------------------------------

Men Women

Alabama 90 12 9

Arizona 102 18 11

Arkansas 108 12 15

California 1,242 182 24

Colorado 480 72 31

Connecticut 132 42 49

Delaware 12 1 3

District of Columbia 372 84 50

Florida 132 18 11

Georgia 72 7 13

Idaho 168 30 11

Illinois 3,108 564 373

Indiana 1,422 210 322

Iowa 664 120 96

Kansas 402 54 55

Kentucky 334 24 58

Louisiana 72 6 10

Maine 54 12 6

Maryland 84 24 15

Massachusetts 318 138 53

Michigan 13,548 3,558 5,793

Minnesota 660 114 37

Mississippi 48 9 12

Missouri 768 102 78

Montana 336 60 36

Nebraska 330 30 27

Nevada 42 10 4

New Hampshire 42 12 5

New Jersey 270 54 89

New Mexico 78 9 9

New York 2,358 420 414

North Carolina 48 8 9

North Dakota 120 24 22

Ohio 3,054 420 778

Oklahoma 294 36 45

Oregon 372 60 4

Pennsylvania 1,374 198 298

Rhode Island 48 8 7

South Carolina 30 36 9

South Dakota 186 18 20

Tennessee 138 18 15

Texas 246 30 29

Utah 186 24 9

Vermont 60 8 3

Virginia 78 24 16

Washington 684 120 29

West Virginia 126 12 36

Wisconsin 576 78 47

Wyoming 84 8 9

Total number in

United States 35,552 7,138 9,104

American Dependencies 166 23 41

Canada 280 38 79

Foreign Countries 494 92 177

Total 36,492 7,291 9,401

Total (men and women) 43,783

Total number given degrees, June, 1920 35,959

Total number living graduates, June, 1920 29,043

TABLE IV

THE BUILDINGS OF THE UNIVERSITY

------------+------+-------------+-------------+------------------------------

| When |Approximate | |

Building |Comp- | Original | Additions | Remarks

|leted | Cost | |

------------+------+-------------+-------------+------------------------------

| | |Date Cost|

_University_| | | |

_Hall_ | | | |

North Wing, | 1841 | $16,000.00 | |Originally contained

"Mason Hall"| | | | dormitory, as well as class-

| | | | rooms, Chapel, Library, and

| | | | Museum.

| | | |

South Wing, | 1849 | 12,755.25 | |Contained dormitory at first,

"South | | | | as well as classrooms.

College" | | | |

| | | |

Main or | 1873 | 100,000.00 | |

central | | | |

part and | | | |

auditorium | | | |

| | | |

_Four_ | | | |

_original_ | | | |

_faculty_ | | | |

_residences_| | | |

On South | | | |

University | | | |

Avenue: | | | |

| | | |

West | 1841 |} |1920 $35,000|Occupied by every President

residence| |} | | except President Hutchins.

| |} | |

East | 1841 |} 32,550.00 |1895 |Became Dental College in 1877,

Residence| |} (Total | | taken over by Engineering

| |} cost of | | College in 1895; now known as

| |} the four | | Old Engineering Building.

On North | |} buildings)| |

University | |} | |

Avenue: | |} | |

| |} | |

West | 1841 |} |1879 |Became Homeopathic College in

residence| |} | | 1875. Removed in 1914.

| |} | |

East | 1841 |} | |Became University Hospital in

Residence| | | | 1868, with subsequent

| | | | additions. Taken over by

| | | | Dental College in 1891.

| | | | Removed in 1908.

| | | |

Old Medical | 1850 | 8,981.00 |1864 20,000|Half of cost of addition in

Building | | | | 1864 borne by citizens of Ann

| | | | Arbor. Razed in 1914.

| | | |

| | |1867 6,000|Costs given includes instru-

Observatory | 1854 | 22,000.00 |1905} 60,000| ments. The cost of the orig-

| | |1911} | inal observatory includes

| | | | $15,000, given by citizens

| | | | of Detroit, while the cost

| | | | of the improvements in 1867

| | | | was borne by citizens of

| | | | Detroit and Ann Arbor.

| | | |

| | | |Original structure lost in

| | |1861} | subsequent additions. Now

Old | | |1866} | used by Departments of

Chemistry | 1857 | 3,450.00 |1868} | Physiology, Pharmacology,

Laboratory | | |1874} $56,000| Economics, and Political

| | |1880} | Science.

| | |1889} |

| | | |

Law | 1863 | 15,000.00 |1893 30,000|Housed University Library

Building | | |1898 65,000| until 1883. Now contains Law

| | | | Library of 41,000 volumes and

| | | | also the Regents' Room.

| | | |

Museum | 1879 | 41,400.00 | |

| | | |

Engineering | 1882 | 2,500.00 |1886 15,000|Tower now contains University

Shops | | |1889 8,750| Clock and Chimes.

| | | |

Physical | 1887 | |1905 45,000|Contained Department of

Laboratory | | | | Hygiene until 1903.

| | | |

Old Library | 1883 | 100,000.00 | |Torn down in 1918.

| | | |

_Old_ | | | |

_University_| | | |

_Hospitals_ | | | |

Main | 1891 | 116,000.00[11]| |To be superseded by the New

Buildings | | | | Hospital, 1922.

| | | |

Office | 1896 | 3,000.00[11]| |

Buildings | | | |

| | | |

Palmer Ward | 1903 | 28,000.00 | |Palmer Ward bequest of Mrs.

| | | | A.B. Palmer (with $15,000

| | | | endowment).

| | | |

Psychopathic| 1906 | 64,000.00 |1914 14,000|Controlled by Board appointed

Ward | | | | jointly by State and Regents.

| | | |

Eye and Ear | 1917 | 33,000.00 | |

Ward | | | |

| | | |

Contagious | 1918 | 25,000.00 | |

Ward | | | |

| | | |

_Gymnasiums_| | | |

Waterman | 1894 | 61,876.49 |1916 68,000|$20,000 given by Josiah

(Men) | | | | Waterman.

| | | |

Barbour |1897 | 41,341.76 | |$25,000 given by Ex-Regent

(Women) | | | | Levi L. Barbour, '63.

| | | |

Tappan Hall | 1895 | 49,000.00[12]| |Contains classrooms, and

| | | | offices of Department of

| | | | Education.

| | | |

Homeopathic | 1900 | 85,000.00 |1918 $33,000|Original site of five acres,

Hospital | | | | valued at $17,000, given by

| | | | City of Ann Arbor. 1918

| | | | addition a separate

| | | | Children's Ward.

| | | |

Medical | 1903 | 160,000.00 | |

Building | | | |

| | | |

Engineering | 1904 | 200,000.00 |1909 105,000|

Building | | | |

| | | |

Dental | 1908 | 115,000.00 | |

Building | | | |

| | | |

Alumni | 1909 | 195,000.00 | |Art Galleries and Reading

Memorial | | | | Room. Headquarters of Alumni

Hall | | | | Association. $145,000

| | | | contributed by Alumni

| | | | Association.

| | | |

Chemistry | 1910 | 271,000.00 | |Includes Department of

Building | | | | Pharmacy.

| | | |

Ferry Field | 1912 | 38,000.00 | |

Club House | | | |

| | | |

Hill | 1913 | 270,000.00 | |Bequest of $200,000, of Regent

Auditorium | | | | Arthur Hill, '65_e._ Seating

| | | | capacity approximately 5,000.

| | | |

Power Plant | 1914 | 422,000.00 | |Cost includes complete

| | | | equipment.

| | | |

Natural | 1916 | 408,000.00 | |Contains Departments of

Science | | | | Botany, Forestry, Geology,

Building | | | | Mineralogy, Psychology, and

| | | | Zoölogy.

| | | |

University | 1919 | 615,000.00 | | Contains 335,000 volumes.

Library | | | |

| | | |

The Michigan| 1919 |1,200,000.00 | |Gift of Alumni Members

Union | | | | (14,000).

| | | |

The New | 1922 |3,000,000.00 | |Now in course of construction.

University | | | |

Hospital | | | |

| | | |

_The_ | | | |

_Women's_ | | | |

_Dorm-_ | | | |

_itories_ | | | |

Martha Cook | 1916 | 350,000.00 | |Gift of the Cook family.

Building | | | |

| | | |

Helen Handy | 1916 | 75,000.00 | |Gift of the Newberry family.

Newberry | | | |

Hall of | | | |

Residence | | | |

| | | |

Betsy | 1920 | 125,000.00 | |Gift of Levi L. Barbour, '63.

Barbour | | | |

Hall of | | | |

Residence | | | |

| | | |

Alumnae | 1920 | 18,000.00 | |Gift of the Alumnae of the

House | | | | University.

[Footnote 11: Appraisal Value, 1912.]

[Footnote 12: Appraisal Value, 1912.]

INDEX

Act of 1817, 7.

Acts of Congress Concerning School Lands, 11.

Acts of State Legislature:

First Organic Act, March 18, 1837, 17, 165;

Supplementary Act, 1837, 18;

State loan to University, 28, 29;

April 8, 1851, Second Organic Act, 44, 166.

Adams, Charles K., 105, 115.

Admission requirements:

Medical, 121, 122;

Law, 134.

Agnew, John H., 32, 41, 96.

Agriculture, Chair of, 49, 97.

Alumnæ, Distinguished, 348.

Alumni:

Relations with, 86, 103;

Distinguished, 102, 104, 342-349;

Number, 324;

Distribution of, 325, 326;

Organization of, 326-330;

Alumni Association, 330-332, 341;

Local organizations, 333;

In University affairs, 334;

Alumni Secretary, 331;

_Alumnus, Michigan_, 331, 332;

Advisory Council, 335;

Catalogue, 335, 336;

Gifts, 336-340;

Alumni Fund, 340, 341.

Alumni Memorial Hall, 303, 304, 337.

Anatomical Laboratory, 123, 125.

Angell, James Burrill:

Declines offer of Presidency, 60;

Accepts a second tender, 63, 67;

Birth and early life, 65, 66;

Educational ideals, 68;

In the public service, 67;

Characteristics, 70, 76-78;

Administration, review of, 71-76;

Difficulties of, 72-75;

Resignation, 79;

Quarter Centennial Anniversary, 88;

References, 16, 103, 113.

Ann Arbor:

In early days, 23, 172;

Description of, 268, 272;

First settlers, 269;

Origin of name, 269, 270;

Early life in, 270-272;

German settlers, 272-273;

Churches, 197, 273;

Newspapers, 274, 275;

Schools, 275, 276;

Town and gown, students, 277-280;

Advantages as site for University, 282, 283;

Future development of, 295.

Ann Arbor Land Company, 23, 282.

Anniversaries:

Semi-Centennial, 87;

Seventy-fifth, 88;

President Angell's quarter centennial, 88.

Appropriations, legislative, 58, 85, 118, 171.

Architecture, College of, 140.

Astronomy, Department of, 110; see _Observatory_.

Athletic Association:

First organized, 239;

Board of Control, 239;

Organized, 251, 252;

Ferry Field, 237.

Athletics:

In general, 233;

In early days, 175, 234;

Development of, 237;

First organizations, 238;

Athletic Association, 239;

Baseball, 239-246;

Football, first, 246, 247;

General Review, 248-260;

Track Athletics, first, 260, 261;

General Review of, 260-263;

Minor sports, 264, 265;

Reforms, 256, 257;

For Women, 265;

General summary, 266, 267.

Attendance, 34, 49, 57, 71, 86, 117, 122, 131, 132, 182, 191;

Geographical distribution of, 231;

During war, 309, 321;

From Michigan, 232.

Barbour, Levi L., benefactor, 265, 338.

Barbour Gymnasium, 266.

Baseball, general review, 239-246.

Bates, Henry M., 135.

Beal-Steere Collections, 75, 111.

Benefactions:

Alumni, 86, 327, 336-340;

Biblical MSS., 156;

Freer, 337.

Bibliography, University, 158.

Boise, James R., 97, 105.

Bolting classes, practice of, 180.

Botany, Department of, 111.

Branches of the University:

Authorized, 19;

Founded, 21;

Discontinued, 21, 34;

Justification for, 22.

Brünnow, Franz F.E., 54, 100.

Buildings, 26, 27, 58, 62, 95, 119, 129, 141, 142, 144, 145, 286-293.

Burton, Marion LeRoy:

Chosen as President, 89;

Inaugurated, 90.

Campbell, James V., 131.

Campus:

Selection of, 24;

In early days, 283;

Tree planting on, 284, 285;

Development, 286, 293;

Plan for future, 294.

Catholepistemiad, 7.

Chancellor, Lack of, 41, 43.

Chapel, 33, 194.

Chemical Laboratory, 58, 142, 149;

Shortage in accounts, 74, 75;

Buildings, 142, 150, 287.

Choral Union, 228.

Churches, Ann Arbor, 197, 273.

Clinical Medicine, Laboratory of, 127.

Civil War:

Effect on attendance, 298, 301;

Political Sentiment, 299;

Outbreak of war, 300;

Student drill organized, 300;

Alumni in, 302.

Classes, Early rivalry, 179, 184.

Class-day, 177.

Clements Library of American History, 338.

Clubs, student, 230, 231.

Cocker, Benjamin F., 106.

Co-education:

Subject agitated, 60;

Adopted by Regents, 60;

First woman students, 61;

General feeling, 61;

Scholarship, 213.

Colleges of State:

Early rivalry of, 20;

Co-operation with, 84.

Colors, Michigan, 205.

Commencement exercises, 178;

Change in, 179.

Comedy Club, 223.

Conference, Western Inter-collegiate, 246, 252;

Withdrawal from, 256, 257;

Return to, 259.

Congressional Acts. See _Acts_.

Constitution:

of 1835, 14-16;

of 1850, 43.

Constitutional Status of University, 167-171.

Cooley, Mortimer E., 139.

Cooley, Thomas M., 132, 153.

Council, Inter-fraternity, 212.

Council, Student, 183-185.

Cousin, M. Victor, report on Public Instruction in Prussia, 14.

Crary, Isaac E., 2, 14, 15.

Cricket, in early days, 234, 235.

Curriculum:

First, 31, 96;

Changes in, 57, 71, 103, 113, 114;

Combined literary and medical, 82, 129;

Literary and law, 82;

Special, 82.

Davis, Joseph B., 139.

Debating. See _Speaking, Public_.

Degrees:

Effort to limit degree-conferring power, 20;

Changes in, 114;

Doctor of Philosophy, 116;

Honorary, 116;

Juris Doctor, 134;

Engineering, 141;

Total in 1911, 132.

Demmon, Isaac N., 108, 120, 218.

Denison, Charles S., 138, 139.

Dental Surgery, College of:

Founding, 144;

First Faculty, 145;

Lengthening of course, 145;

Building, 145.

Denton, Samuel, 124, 275.

Detroit, 9, 25.

Discipline, student, 72.

Disturbances, student, 277-281.

D'Ooge, Martin L., 97, 105.

Dormitories:

First buildings, 26, 27;

Abolished, 30;

Women's, 282, 291, 292, 338;

Men's, proposed, 282.

Douglas, Silas H., 73-75, 94, 103, 142.

Dramatics, student:

Early efforts, 222, 223;

Comedy Club, 223;

Union Operas, 224;

Other organizations, 224, 225, 226;

Campus Theater, need for, 226.

East, athletic competition with:

Baseball, 242, 243;

Football, 248, 249, 258, 259;

Track, 261.

Educational changes, University's share in, 3, 46-49, 59, 60-62, 69,

71, 72, 82, 127, 128, 134, 148.

Effinger, John R., 146.

Elective system of studies, 71, 113, 114.

Electro-Therapeutics, Laboratory of, 127.

Engineering, College of:

First establishment, 49;

Subdivision of Literary Department, 137;

Faculty, 138, 139;

Deans, 139;

Departments in, 140;

Building, 141;

Research in, 154;

Independent College, 139.

English, Department of, 108.

Enrolment. See _Attendance_.

Exhibitions, Junior, 177.

Extension courses, 84.

Expenses in early days, 33, 174.

Faculty:

First, 30, 32, 91;

Weakness in 1850, 39, 41;

Organization, 166.

Fasquelle, Louis, 32, 96.

Fees, 18, 33.

Fellowships, 117.

Ferry Field, 237.

Fine Arts:

Course first established, 97;

Department of, 112.

Fitzpatrick, Keene, 262.

Football:

General review of, 246-260;

Agitation for reforms in, 256-258.

Ford, Corydon La, 124.

Foreign students, 232.

Forestry, Department of, 113.

Fraternities:

In general, 207, 210;

Struggle over establishment, 34-38;

Growth of, 207, 208;

First chapter houses, 209;

Palladium, 211;

System at Michigan, 210;

Junior Hop and, 211;

Inter-fraternity Conference, 212;

Rules for rushing, 212;

Scholarship of, 213.

Freer, Charles L., benefactor, 156.

French educational influence, 9.

Frieze, Henry S.:

As professor of Latin, 98;

Acting president, 60, 99;

Characteristics, 99;

Love of music, 99;

Co-education, 60;

High school certificates granted, 62;

Other references, 141, 227.

Fund, Alumni, 340, 341.

Gayley, Charles M., 198, 200, 222, 247.

Geographical distribution of students, 231.

Geology, Department of, 111.

Glee Club, 227, 228.

Graduates:

Distinguished, 342-349;