THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, AUGUST 10. 1937 Prof. A. L. Cross' Speech I 1 1 DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Copy received at the office of the Summer Session, Room 1213 A. H. until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. *Delivered At Cenena nesday, Aug. 11. Portage Lake. An- nual picnic and fun fest. Leave, main entrance of University high school' at 4:30 p.m. Men needing transpor- tation can be accommodated if prompt in assembling at U.H.S. Stalker Hall: Swimming party and picnic Wednesday, at 5 p.m. Please call 6881 for reservations. t ji The Mathematics Clui' will meet day. Please be prompt. Full at- (this speech was given by Arthur Lyon Cross. Richard Hudson professor of English History, at 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 15.) FOLLOWING the Organic Act providing a new form of government for the University and the acceptance of forty acres from the Ann Arbor Land Company the recently constituted Board of Regents held.its first meeting just a hundred years ago this very June. While the flat surface appealed to the practical minds of six of eleven voters, few would not wish that the banks of the Huron had been chosen, which would have given us a situation of real beauty. Harvard, Yale, Princeton and other early eastern institutions had started to build on the English model though the result was somewhat different and distinctive. Owing to the influence of two men the pros- pective University of Michigan was designed to develop in a different direction. These men were John D. Pierce-known as "Father Pierce"-the first Superintendent of Public Instruction and his friend and neighbor, in Marshall, General Isaac Edwin Crary, chairman of the committee on education in the Constitutional Convention of 1835. Finding little to suit their plans in their respective colleges, Brown and Trinity, they sought guidance in M. Victor Cousin's "Re- port on the State of Public Instruction in Prussia" to the French Ministry of Public In- struction. The American university as it has developed, to a certain degree on the German model, consists of a College of Literature, Science and the Arts, supplemented by various professional schools and colleges. This is ,n contrast to the English plan where there are a score or more of colleges in each of the two older universities. The col- leges are residence halls with tutors for the students. Lectures are given by university pro- fessors and the university conducts the examina- tions. Medicine and surgery are taught in the hospitals, and law in officers for the solicitors and in the Inns of Court for the barristers. Har- vard and Yale now combine both German and English features. The Medical School at Michigan was organized in 1849-four years after the first class was graduated from the Literary College. It was not long in attaining a first rank among the medical schools of the country. During the deanship of Victor C. Vaughan (1891-1921) it made notable strides. The late Dr. Arthur R. Cushny was the greatest pharmacologist of his generation, certainly in the English speaking world. Dr. Huber was a skillful technician and his work in improving the technique of staining nerve ends and nerve cells is famous. It was not till 1859, ten years after the medical course started, that a course in law was provided. The new department started with only three professors, but what men they were- Campbell, Cooley and Walker. Judge Cooley is still recognized as one of the small select band of leading American legal scholars. Passing over the ups and downs in the growth of the department and subsequent school, it may said that there are perhaps half a dozen law schools of front rank in the United States and that Michigan stands well among them. The advent of Henry Philip Tappan as first president in 1852 marked an epoch. It was he who turned a struggling small-town college into a modern university. It was he who brought the eminent Dr. Brun- now to Ann Arbor. And it was Dr. Brunnow who trained James C. Watson, a name to conjure with in American astronomical achievement. It was during the Tappan regime that Andrew D. White, a recent graduate of Yale, who had studied and travelled abroad, and who later be- came internationally known as a scholar and diplomat, was called to Michigan as professor of History in 1857. It will be necessary to pass to the coming of James Burrill Angell in 1871. For nearly forty years he stood out as one of the leading figures in American education. President Angell was one of the most fin- ished and persuasive speakers of his generation. When he came to the University there were some 1,100 students, a faculty of 32, exclusive of assistants, and a total income of $85,000 and special appropriations of $15,000. At the close of histerm there were 5,400 students, a faculty of 318, a total income of $1,575,000 and special appropriations of $335,000. By 1875 all the essential schools and colleges of a University had been established. This could not be said of any of the state universities of the Middle or Far West. In the whole United States Harvard alone had estab- lished all the schools named. The mill tax method of educational support was first applied in Michigan. It has since been employed in several other states. Also Michigan was a pioneer in securing for its Regents and its incomes the protection of a constitutional pro- vision. Michigan was the first large university to admit women (1870). Michigan was the first university to establish a Bureau of Alumni Relations. Michigan was the first university to admit students upon certification by approved high schools. There may be a feeling that state universities are primarily for utilitarian purposes and that the older endowed institutions are primarily the centres of culture and research. That should not be the case. It would seem that all the tions of life" that make a man something more than just a craftsman or a specialist. Life should be more than a pastime on the one hand or a "market for gain" on the other. A sage, albeit pessimistic prophet of old time observed: "the earth giveth much mould whereof earthen- vessels are made, but little dust that gold cometh of." We have had an appreciable share of the latter, the seigneurs of the intellect: through the generosity of the State and of private bene- factors we have had a magnificent equipment; it is indispensable and we need more, but, with- out the men, it is but sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. One word more; teaching is constantly under fire of criticism and no doubt it is a healthy sign; nevertheless, you older ones realize and your sons and daughters should real- ize that we can at best set the feast: it is for the students themselves to eat and digest it. Moreover, statistics show that there is a close correlation between students who excel in their work and those who attain distinction in after life. Some excellent students, through defects of character or courage fail to realize their early promise, but few succeed who have not made the most of their early opportunities. The heritage has been no mean one, may the present and future generations make the most of it. On The Level By WRAG AL (SING US ANOThER) DEWEY, prexy of the 1937 graduating class, has been making regular week-end excursions around the country. He came back from one of them last week after having hit Madison, Wis. via Chicago, Ill. We hear Al got a kick out of the fact that Chicago city fathers have placed three new signs in front of their city hall. According to Al, each of the signs are bronze plaques a foot wide and three feet long. Each sign says in bold letters, "City Hall." From this, we would say that the Slaughter City believes in calling "a spade a spade" and making sure that everyone knows it. SPEAKING OF TRAVELS, Stu Tatum was rem- iniscing on his trips around North America by box-car the other night. He kept a pretty good sized bull-session enthralled with his stories about what happened to him at various stops in his rod riding sojourn. We recall in particular his story about what he and the boys he was with did in Monterey, Mexico. They were stand- ing at the rear of a large crowd listening to a political speech, and there was one fellow near them who didn't like the radical sentiments of the speaker at the occasion, and didn't mind showing his dislike with an extremely loud Bronx cheer at all too frequent intervals. The boys who had just hopped into town conceived an idea to' take care of the raspberry rooter. There were a bunch of little shoe-shine boys hanging around the crowd, and according to Stu, they would do anything for an American dime. So the boys showed the group of shiners an American quarter and told the Mexican kids that it would go to the one who shined the razzer's shoes first. In a second the booer was sur- rounded by these little peon boys who grabbed him by both legs and began covering his shoes, ankles, and legs with a fluid somewhat resem- bling shoe-polish. The man struggled, but the kids were after that quarter, so the first thing he knew he was flat on the ground and the mob was busily shining away to the delight of the crowd listening to the political speech. Another time, the boys hopped off the freight at Yuma, Arizona, after a solid two day's trip. They were plenty hungry and thirsty after nearly thirty-six hours without necessities, so the first thing they did was to wander through the fruit shipping platform near the railroad tracks, to try to get some water and food. One of the packing companies there had a box of ripe cantalopes that were too well along to ship anp place, so they gave the crate to the box-car boys. The boys promptly climbed back atop their pet freight car, handed out the melons right and left, and began cracking the melons on the roof of the car and eating them there. Then the car-inspector hove intosight and the boys beat it for down below and out of sight. They got their laugh when the watchman, who had been trying to kick them off the train for several states, came along and slipped on the seeds and juice of the melons they had been eating above. After nearly falling off the speed- ing freight, he chased the boys down and kicked them off the freight in the middle of Arizona. The boys lived on cantalope till they got to the next town, and Stu claims he hasn't eaten any since. %f * Headline: JAPS WANT CHINESE TO QUIT PEIPING Hmmm. Maybe this headline has something to do with the fact that the Jap Army t'ook its first bath in over a month, the other day. IN SATURDAY'S DAILY we read about the plans of Colby College to move its entire campus to another site some three miles away from the Waterville, Maine railroad yard. The noisy trains in the yard which is now adjacent to the campus have been given as the reason. We should think the faculty would appreciate Tuesday, Aug. 10, at 4:15 p.m., injI Room 3017 Angell Hall. Dr. Ralph Hull will speak on "Abelian Algebraic Fields."I The Union 'lool will be open to any student from 7:30 to 9 p.im. on the evenings of Aug. 10, 12, 17. Chamber Music Concert: The Chamber Music Class, of the Univer-; sity School of Music, under the direc- tion of Prof. Hanns Pick, will give a concert in Hill Auditorium, Tuesday evening, Aug. 10, at 8:30 p.m., to which the general public is cordially invited. A meeting for the purpose of or- ganizing a club to further the study and use of the international auxiliary language, Esperanto, will be held in Room 25, Angell Hall, at 7:30 p.m.,' Tuesday evening, Aug. 10. Member- ship is open not only to university. students and faculty, but also to any-. one else who may be interested. Those who have completed Esperanto courses in the past and contemplate furtherxvork in the future are espe- cially urged to attend. There will be a meeting of the Christian Science Organization to- night at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel of the Michigan League. Sktudents, al- umni and faculty members of the University are cordially invited to attend. Prof. Clarence D. Thorpe, profes- sor of English and of the teaching of English, will lecture on "Tech- niques in English," in the University High School Auditorium today at 4:05 p.m. Mr. J. Arthur MacLean will give an illustrated lecture on "Japanese Wood-block Prints and Printing," at 5 p.m. today in Natural Science Au- ditorium. Baseball games in the University League will be played today inside Ferry Field, at 4 p.m., between: Chemists vs. Cubs. Cards vs. Faculty. Men who are not members of these teams are invited to come, also. Linguistic Luncheon Conference : Following the luncheon at the. Mich- igan Union at 12:10 p.m. today, there will be at 1 p.m. a round-table dis- cussion of "Substratum and Linguis- tic Change," led by Professors Frank- lin Edgerton, William Worrell and Leo L. Rockwell Summer Session Chorus: Very im- portant rehearsal with orchestra 7 to 8 p.m. tonight at Morris Hall, in, preparation for concert next Sun- tendance is imperative. Men's Glce Club: Men's Glee Club To form a pleasant conclusion to meets 8 to 8:30 p.m. at Morris Hall the summer activities of the Deutsch- tonight in preparation for appear- er Verein, we are planning a banquet ance next Sunday morning at com- to be held in the Grand Rapids Room plimentary breakfast given to those of the Michigan League, at 7 p.m., receiving masters' degrees. Varsity Monday, Aug. 16. The price of the Glee Club men on the campus are dinner will be $1.10. We have planned especially urged to join with the a varied and interesting program; we summer students for this occasion. know you will like it. You and your --_friends are cordially invited to at- Student Recitil: Kenneth Cole, tend. violinist Peck, Michigan, will give a If you can come, will you help us graduatln recital in partial fulfill- by making reservations at once? You ment of the requirements of the may do so either at the German Table Bachelor of Music degree, Wednes- or in the office of the German De- day evening, Aug. 11, at 8:30 p.m., in partment, 204 U.H. (Extension 788). the School of Music Aditorium- MissI The Entertainment Committee. Helen Titus will accompany Mr. Cole. Excursion No. 11: The Ann ArborI Daily News, Wednesday, Aug. 11, at' 2 p.m. This trip offers an oppor- tunity to observe a modern newspa- per plant in operation Trips ends' at 4:30 p.m. There is no charge for this excursion. Men's Education Club Picnic, Wed- NEW FERRY ADDED MACKINAW CITY, Aug. 9.-0')- The State Highway Department'Mon- day adde da fifth automobile ferry to its string running between here and St. Ignace. 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