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Title: The University of Michigan

Author: Wilfred Shaw

Release Date: May 19, 2007 [EBook #21532]

Language: English

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[Illustration: UNIVERSITY HALL]

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

BY WILFRED SHAW

General Secretary of the Alumni Association and Editor of The Michigan
Alumnus

_Illustrated by Photographs and Four Etchings by the Author_

NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE
1920

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE, INC.

THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY
RAHWAY, N.J.

To MY WIFE

PREFACE

It has not been the purpose of the author to write a history of the
University of Michigan. Several predecessors in this field have done
their work so well that another book entirely historical in character
might seem superfluous. Rather it is the aim of this volume to furnish a
survey--sketching broadly the development of the University, and
dwelling upon incidents and personalities that contribute movement to
the narrative.

Those familiar with the history of the University will recognize the
sources of much that appears in the following pages. The author must
acknowledge an especial debt to Professor Ten Brook's "History of State
Universities," and the two histories of the University, written by
Elizabeth Farrand, '87_m_, and Professor Burke E. Hinsdale. Much of the
material in the early chapters is based directly upon Professor
Hinsdale's painstaking and authoritative work. Other works which have
been consulted are Judge Cooley's "History of Michigan," Professor C.K.
Adams' "Historical Sketch," published by the University in 1876,
Professor A.C. McLaughlin's "History of Higher Education in Michigan"
(Contributions to American Educational History, Number II, Bureau of
Education, 1891), the reports of the Fiftieth and Seventy-fifth
Anniversaries and Dr. Angell's Quarter Centennial Celebration, and Dr.
Angell's "Reminisce