"AGE TWO TiE MICIIGAN DAILY ._ _ _ _____ woomm" Y Michigan Story (Continued from Page 1) intellectual science. This program, actually very sound for its day, was soon supplemented with the establishment of primary schools at three other territorial settle- ments. * * * AT THE OUTSET, the two cler- gymen constituted the entire fac- ulty-Rev. Monteith receiving a salary of $25 annually in the of- fice of president, and Father Rich- ard teaching all seven courses for $18.75 yearly. In 1821, the institution was more handily named the Univer- sity of Michigan, and immed- iately beset with financial dark days. Newly-hired faculty members were warned that they would con- tinue teaching at their own risk, and the Board of Trustees was compelled to rent part of the Uni- versity's only building to the in- fant Detroit Board of Education. IT IS INTERESTING to note that the institution partially owed its continued existence to the gen- erosity of certain regional Indian tribes. They had been prompted at an earlier date, apparently out of genuine interest in the. white man's education, to specifically re- linquish certain lands to the two clergymen. More than a century ,afterward, the University was to express its gratitude for the red men's unexpected favor: in 1932, the Regents established five schol- arships specifically reserved for deserving individuals of Indian de- ;rscent. When, with the passing of years, the Michigan territory's population had rocketed to 100,- 000 and statehood had been achieved, the Legislature passed the historic act of March 18, 1837. The.first American uni- versity to be governed by a pop- ularly elected board of regents had come into official being. Meanwhile-as the need for a large, permanent home for the University became apparent-var- ious Michigan communities began offering plots of land. Finally,'it was the vigorous and picturesque little village of Ann Arbor that was selected. ALTHOUGH THE existence of the University had been made offi- cial in 1837, it was not until 1841 that its doors were first opened to students. By that time, the still-surviv- ing Mason Hall and four faculty residences had been erected on the expansive forty acre plot. Of the four residences, only one has not been displaced - the present-day President's House. Finally, preparations were com- plete, and in the fall of 1841 a faculty of two-a Presbyterian and an Episcopalian-greeted an en- rollment of six students. At the same time, the financial status of the institution had again grown precarious, and the Regents were forced to close the early ex- tension schools. Only a loan of $100,000 from the State appears to have saved the day. * * * BY 1850, THE picture began to brighten up. Enrollment-had risen ;o 159 and another academic struc- ture, identical with Mason Hall, was erected - a structure which survives today as the South Wing of University Hall. The first Med- ical Building had been completed in 1848. It was a "spartan" life led by the University's first students- carrying wood from an off-cam- pus pile, tending their own quar- ters in the Mason hall dormi- tory, and securing mcals from cooperative townsfolk. Their fi- nancial rigors, however, appear to have been less severe: meals were offered at a cost of $1.50 a week, and the University tui- tion and residence fees amount- ed to only $10. When the University had hap- ,lily weathered the financial storm of its first decade, it was almost immediately plunged into an al- most disastrous intramural fracus. FRATERNITY LIFE had been transplanted at an early date to the Michigan campus, and the lo- zal Chi Psi chapter had establish- ed its house in a wooded area at some distance from the campus. A paternalistic faculty frown- ed on this system as being "un- democratic, exclusive, excessive, and depredatory," and took mea- sures to abolish it. When the students hotly contested such authority, they were greeted with a barrage of expulsions. A continued struggle finally won reinstatement of the students and the fraternity- system, but the an- tagonisms which had been bred were not easily forgotten. * * * TO MAKE matters even worse, the political question of that day -abolition-had been posed with all its force on the Michigan cam- pus. A strong executive hand was obviously needed, and in 1850 the ,onstitutional convention made the office of president--vacant until then-obligatory. The strong hand ned was pro- vided by Henry Philip Tappan. Henry Philip Tappan... Although the convention of 1850 provided for a president, the office remained unfilled until 1852. In addition to the fraternity up- roar and the persecution of pro- fessors of anti-slavery convictions, the University's financial balance had slumped to a. fantastic low- only $9.66, according to one his- torian. Before the oldsBoard of Regents retired en masse at the clome of the year 1850, it further crippled the rapidly failing University with the dismissal of two professors because of their abolitionist ten- dencies. STILL, THERE was one glirn- mer of life on the generally di- mal scene: on the distant eastern boundry of the Ann Arbor cam- pus, the medical department had in 1850 established itself in a new building. In the fall of that year, ninety earnest young medics en- tered - putting to shame the squabbling literary college. Fortunately, the appointment of a new Board of Regents early in 1852 marked the beginning of an upswing in University fortunes. In the summer of that year, Henry Philip Tappan --recognized as one of the fore- most educators of the time- was offered the Michigan presi- dency. He accepted in Septem- ber. Tappan was an exceedingly im- pressive figure-so much so that it was difficult for many of the people of the "backwoods" State to gracefully accept his presence. He was 47 years of age, a tower- ing six feet, four inches tall, and possessed of a remarkable talent for public speaking. * * * WHEN HE arrived in Ann Ar- bor-obviously with the aura of a somewhat condescending mission- ary-he found the University con- sisting of the original forty acre campus, the two recitation-dor- mitory buildings, the new medical building, and the four professors' houses. The literary faculty was made up of only six professors, and the department's enrollment had dropped to 57 students. The medical department, on the other hand, had continued to grow in spite of the University's general decline, and now boasted of 157 students and five professors. It was with Tappan's arrival that the really significant his- tory of the University began. He wasted no time in assuming1 control with almost dictatorial vigor, and progress was immed- iately evident. The new president was amazed to find space in campus buildings being taken up with student dor- mitories, and it was not long be- fore necessity brought the tradi- tional Ann Arbor boarding house into being and in the newly val cated Mason Hall space,;president Tappan established a museum. His request for appropriations to expand the library, and to es- tablish a laboratory, an observa- tory, and a fine arts gallery rather stunned the plodding Michigan Legislature. However, funds were generally granted, and the end of the Tappan "regime" was to see these goals, and many others, well accomplished. f . IN ADDITION to improvIng the physical facilities of the Univer- sity, President Tappan also vig- orously set out to build a respect- ed faculty. He banished the re- ligious considerations which had previously influenced the hiring of professors, and conducted an unqualified search for men of genuine academic stature. 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