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(1797-1882), Zina Pitcher (1797-1872),
Samuel Denton (1803-1860) 14
THE CAMPUS IN 1855 24
TWO OF THE UNIVERSITY'S OLDEST BUILDINGS: The
President's House. The only one of the original four professors' houses
still remaining 30 The Old Medical Building. Torn down in 1914 30
FOUR MEMBERS OF THE EARLY FACULTY. George Palmer
Williams (1802-1881), Andrew Ten Brook (1814-1899), Abram Sager
(1810-1877), Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1824-1898) 34
HENRY PHILIP TAPPAN, LL.D. (1805-1881). The first President of
the University, 1852-1863 56
ERASTUS OTIS HAVEN, LL.D. (1820-1881). President of the
University, 1863-1869 57
HENRY SIMMONS FRIEZE (1817-1889). Professor of Latin,
1854-1889. Acting President of the University, 1869-1871, 1880-1882
57
THE TWO MAIN BUILDINGS OF THE UNIVERSITY ABOUT
1860 60

ALUMNI MEMORIAL HALL. Etching 68
JAMES BURRILL ANGELL, LL.D. (1829-1916). President of the
University, 1871-1909 76
HARRY BURNS HUTCHINS, LL.D. President of the University,
1909-1920 86
MARION LEROY BURTON, LL.D. President of the University of
Michigan, 1920- 90
A GENERAL VIEW OF THE FRONT OF THE CAMPUS. Showing
University Hall, including the Old North Wing, with the Law Building
in the background 94
THE UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY 110
HILL AUDITORIUM 110
THE CHEMISTRY BUILDING 111
THE NATURAL SCIENCE BUILDING 111
THE NEW LIBRARY 118
THE ENGINEERING BUILDING 124
THE MEDICAL BUILDING 124
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE OLD HOSPITALS 130
THE NEW HOSPITAL BUILDING 130
THE LAW BUILDING 131
THE ENGINEERING QUADRANGLE. Etching 140
THE DENTAL BUILDING 144

THE HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL AND CHILDREN'S WARD 144
THE INTERIOR OF HILL AUDITORIUM 152
THE INTERIOR OF THE MAIN READING ROOM IN THE NEW
LIBRARY 153
THE MICHIGAN UNION. Etching 186
THE DOORWAY OF THE MARTHA COOK BUILDING 192
LANE HALL. The University Y.M.C.A. Building 196
NEWBERRY HALL. The University Y.W.C.A. Building 196
NEWBERRY RESIDENCE FOR WOMEN 197
BARBOUR GYMNASIUM FOR WOMEN 197
THE TUG OF WAR ACROSS THE HURON. The Freshman losing in
the Annual Freshman-Sophomore contests 208
FOUR SOCIETY HOUSES. Psi Upsilon, Sigma Phi, Phi Delta Theta,
Collegiate Sorosis 209
WATERMAN GYMNASIUM FOR MEN 236
FERRY FIELD FROM THE NEW STAND, showing the gates and the
Club House 248
A VIEW OF ANN ARBOR. Across the Valley of the Huron. The
Hospital Buildings, with the University Beyond 272
ALONG THE HURON. A Glimpse of Ann Arbor's Park System 280
THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS IN THE SEVENTIES 286
THE CAMPUS ELMS 287

THE CAPTAINS OF THE THREE STUDENT COMPANIES IN 1861.
Charles Kendall Adams, '61, Captain of the University Guards; Isaac H.
Elliott, '61, Captain of the Chancellor Greys; Albert Nye, '62, Captain
of the Ellsworth Zouaves. 300
THE STUDENTS' ARMY TRAINING CORPS. Drawn up before the
Michigan Union (fall of 1918) 312
ONE OF THE FOURTEEN-INCH NAVAL GUNS IN FRANCE.
Whose crews were largely composed of the Michigan Naval Volunteers.
313
THE CONCOURSE OR GENERAL LOBBY IN THE MICHIGAN
UNION 336

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
One early June day some fourscore years ago, it was 1837 to be precise,
a party of distinguished visitors arrived in what was then the little
backwoods community of Ann Arbor. The interest of the loiterers at the
country tavern and the corner grocery was no doubt aroused by their
coming, for Ann Arbor we may suppose was not different from other
small places; and this curiosity could hardly have been lessened by the
fact that the newcomers were all men who figured prominently in the
affairs of the State, which had been admitted to the Union only four
months before. Whatever the speculation aroused by the personnel of
the party, however, the business that called them to Ann Arbor caused
little comment, if we are to judge from contemporary reports. Yet this
unpretentious gathering of notables was charged with the inauguration
of what was to become one of the most significant developments in the
history of American education,--the establishment and successful
maintenance of a University by the people of a State.

Thus met for their first session the Regents of the future University of
Michigan. Unfortunately we do not know the particulars of this
meeting; not even in what country lawyer's office or public hall it was
held; still less are we able to profit from any of the illuminating details
or personal comments a modern observer would have given us. Our
knowledge of the character of the men, and the official report of what
they did, is all we have to reveal the spirit in which they set themselves
to their task.
Of the nineteen members of the Board at that time eleven were present
at this first session, which lasted three days. Included among the
number, as ex-officio members, were the boy Governor of the State,
Stevens T. Mason, then only twenty-five years old, the
Lieutenant-Governor, Edward Mundy, and the Chancellor of the State,
Elon Farnsworth; while among the members by appointment were
Michigan's first Congressman and author of the law