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ShOPS BUILD FOR $2,500!
Eugineers Separated From Literary
College in 1195 Despite
Their Objections
"Engineering,' wheni I came here in
1881, was a part of the literary de-
partment, and had the same status as
Latin, Greek, German and Philoso-'
phy," said Dean Mortimer E. Cooley,
recalling the early life of the Univer-
sity. Dean Cooley is the oldest mem-
ber of the faculty from points of ser-
vice. When he came to Ann Arbor.
"there were only about 1300 students
on the campus, and 75 or 80 men on
the faculty."
Reminiscences of the early days of
the University, as related by Dean!
Cooley, follow: Legislature had made an a ppropria-I
"I arrived on the campus of the Uni taon 0f25lfil einp uecrilig lal
versity of Michigan in August 1881!
(hotter than hell). I came under or- oratory, ar'd l hatiler s had been some
ders from the U. S. Navy department changes iii the -)iaS and ased me iI
directing me to report to the Presi- I could no[ use this amont towart'
(lent of. the University of Michigan establishing ogneering shops. I
as Professor of Steam Engineering I pcinted out that as eniinscrng shops1
afnd Iron Shipbuilding, those being would require botl buildings ant
the words of the law authorizing such equipment, tiie amount was ratheri
details. ismall, and tried to dir'oura'e the
"I shall never forget my trip to I Doctor. I lhoughi T had oni eeded,
Michigan. I did not discover there was but early in December he nt for!
a railroad from Toledo to Ann Arbor me again and wanted to know if I
and so came by way of Detroit and had done anything about it. I replied,
stopped at the old Cass Hotel near -'Nothing more than to think about
th station. Still vivid in my memory it'. "But.', said, 'if it is not expend-
is my first introduction to biology, a I ed by January first the sum will re-
subject which we did not study in the vert to the treasury and I would like)
Navy. The bedbugswere simply fero- very much to save it." I saw that
cious. ,jthere was lno escape, fandl5*so- sidl to
"My first faculty meeting -was most i him that if a building could be erect-
interesting. Due to my Naval training, ed for $1500, leaving mne $1000 for
I became probably the youngest full equipment, I would see what I could.
professor on the campus. Dear old do. Prof. J. B. Davis planned the
Professor Dupont, secretary of the building and it was built for $1500.
faculty, was passing the ballot box Its frame was of 2 x 4 studding, to
for votes on candidates for gradua- which brick were nailed flatwise
tion. As he stopped before me he inside and out. The building now
tined to the President, Dr. Frieze, stands on the southwest corner of
and said, "I don't know whether Mr. Observatory and Belser Sts., just
Cooley is entitled to yvote or not." I across the way from the cemetery,--
rose to my feet promptly and inquired pretty close but not yet in. I bought
of the president what constituted eli- a small engine and boiler, dug upc
gibility to vote, and he said that only an old engine lathe in the basementI
professors voted, "Mr. President, the of University Hall, built a forge,1
orders under which I reported to you erected a small cupola, bought somer
detailed me as Professor of Steam carpenters' tools, and was ready for
Enginering and Iron Shipbuilding,! business the second semester. The'
that being the law. Whatever your building being built in the winter-t
practice at the University of Mich- time the frost did not get out of theE
igan, I came here as a professor, and ground floor until the following July.f
professor I shall remain." That set- "The first class was six Civil En-r
tIed it; I cast a white ball. I was only gineers; the first lesson was to direct I
twenty-six years old-and this was them to go to a heap of about a ton
the courage of youth. of scrap iron and pick out a piecet
"Soon after college opened of cast iron, wrought iron, and steel.1
Frieze sent for me, nd said that the Not one of the six could do it. Each 1
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During the ninety years of the University's history, six presidents hav
directed its educational endeavors. With their terms of service as president
they are: Upper row: Marion Le Roy Burton (1920 to 1925), Harry
Burns Hutchins, '71, (1910 to 1920), Clarence Cook Little (1925-) and
James Burril Angell (1871 to 1909). Lower row: Henry Phillip Tappan
(1852 to 1863) and Erastus 0. Haven (1863 to 1869).
one was able to give me the metal- and would like to remain as we wer
lurgical characteristics of all these They did not agree so, they picked u
up bodily and put us 1i the old Den
materials, but not one recognized it tal Building, where the Clement
when he saw it. That, together with Library now is, and told us to sin
the building of a forge fire, 'constitut- 1 or swim."
ed the first exercise and ended the I--
first day. I had to teach forging, STANFORD. - The executive com
machine shop, and pattern making mittee has been given the power t
myself. dissolve any student organization.
"Along about 1895 the Regentst
talked about separating us from the CALIFORNIA.-Fraternities are peti
Literary Department. We engineers tioning the Regents for building site
objected, saying that we were happy on the campus.
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Makes Statement Concernig Present.. of Ann Arbor.'Their int ntion wasto
Student Body's Part In fAnAb.Thrmttinwst
Alumni Progrand; raise the money necessary for the
completion of the building and to name
the room as a memnorvial to some of
PLANS FOR NEXT DECADE their numbers who fell during the
W_orl(d war. But it was soon found
E. J. Ottaway, '94, president of the that she amount necessary for the
Alumni Association, has issued a completion of the room was too larg
statement concerning the way in to be raised in this way and after do-
which the student body of today will nating the amount that they had raised
help carry on the alumni program to the fund for the decorations, they
and in addition make Michigan "an abandoned the idea.
alumni University." Thus the room stood until in April,
Mr. Ottaway entertains hopes of J1923, when Mrs. Catherine B. Pendle-
having a closer relationship between ton, of Detroit, offered to furnsh the
the alumni and the students and this funds for the completion of 1he room
can be esecured, he says, by each in memory of her husband, Edward
year's graduating class leaving be- 'Waldo Peudleton, '72. The full charge
hind them some memorial to the Uni- of the undertaking was placed, in the
versity so that a lasting bond will hands of President Emeritus liarry U.
be established. The report runs as Hutchins, acting- for Mrs. Pendleton.
follows: 'he fund furnished by Mrs. Pendlle-
..'ton for thei room was $S21.500 and thw
"Tonight's celebration of the ie- i olii itSo ilw sp1,rrr<:tti
tieth anniversary of the founding of room was completed in the manner
the University is really but the first of the rest of the building.
I gun in the Alumni program for thEt On March 24, 1925, a large reception
pre-centennial decade. was held in the newly completed li-
. "For all through the coming ten brary for the members of the faculty
.T. TIA years we shall 'be leading up to the and at this reception the room was
.:RADIOuSTAIOUNSi foLLrmi'd dallrdealosendo toe meoria tli
Wide Roll Call of Michigan formally presented to the Union as the
men in 1937. Edward Waldo Pendleton memorial
"Every class and every club will Library.
want to make its memory live for- Thus, in single week both of the
ever by the erection of some monu- unfinished departments of the Union
ment to the credit of the University. were 'opened, and the building, the
(Continued from Page 9) Every such monument, we hope, will home of the students, and the gathe'-
is now writing for David Belasco. satisfy some special need of Michigan.' ing place for the alumni, finally stood
Senator Copeland, who at one time So that when the centennial year as a monument to student endeavor
was mayor of- Ann Arbor and now rolls around Nve shall be able to look and student ideals.
represents New York state in the up- upon the University with as many Yet one more step remained before
per house of the national legislative of its needs satisfied as.65,000 alumni, its supporters felt that the buildings
body, will open the 1 ogram. 150 local clubs, many generous friends was properly assimilating, the stu-
Besides the speakers, numerous fea- and a liberal commonwealth can sup- dent body both during the time that
tures are planned for the hour of!ply they were members of the University
broadcasting. Michigan songs and "The Alumni Association is set, with and that after they had passed into
yells will be rendered intermittently President Little, to inake of Michigan' the world as graduates of the illsti-
by group choruses and an orchestra. "an alumni university." .Tonight's tution. There was much discuission
All alumni clubs west of Omaha are country-wide celebration opens the of the idea of making life member-
s planning to listen in onl the New way, so far as alumni are conlcerned.{ ships an accompaniment of four years
York program and the Pasadena "The 'student body, too, will be able of membership. And on May 28, 1926,
Michigan club has arranged to have to play an important part in this pro- the Board of Regents voted, at the
the program picked up and rebroad- gram. The 2,000 or more graduates suggestion of the Board of Directors
_ cast by station WFWO, Avalon, Cata- 4leaving Michigan in each of these prev of the Union, to make life member-
lina Islands. centennial years can do much toward ships automatic with al 1-hose male
Since it will be daylight in the West inspiring alumni the world over to members of the University who paid
A itake their part in this %great pro- four years tuition. This step made
when the Ann Arbor program is being embers, who graduated from the
' isent out, the receptive conditions orject'.ebrwogautdfo h
sethe New York program will be much "As president of the Alumni Assor University after four years, members
better. ciation, let me urge the student body of the Union for all time.
btr. so to organize its senior classes that,
e. Orchestra music of all the Michigan coming back for the centennial cele- Mw
s songs was sent to New York aboutbration in 1937, they will provide a INNESOTA-Bowling is now a
- two weeks ago and the Atlantic Broad- great deal of the inspiration that will popular port with the co-eds.
s casting orchestra is prepared to ren- make the culmination of the pro-
der them in the customary way. grom of the next ten years a suc- NORTHWESTERN.-Home talent is
The New York Alumni club believes cess. ito be given a chance to broadcast
that their party will be the biggest "The 20,000 graduates of the coming from WEHS.
- round-up of Michigan celebrities ever ten years will have much to do with
o to go on the air at one time. Before deciding the results of the Alumni-ad- WILLIAMS-Students have petition-
the radio program, the club will hear vance initiated by President Little ed asking to have the allowance of
an address from one of the biggest and the Alumni officials. Organize for chapel cuts increased.
i- men in the radio field. The identity the ten-year period, before you leave
s of this authority has not been dis- the campus." OHIO STATE--The men's glee club
closed. E. J. OTTAWAY,'94. Is about to tour the state.
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