ing a prospective income of about
$16,000 annually--provided, however, that a Professor of Homeopathy be
appointed in the Department of Medicine and Surgery.

This actually proved worse than nothing, for it increased tenfold the
difficulties of the University and precipitated a long and violent
discussion which nearly disrupted the Medical Department. The Regents
were not compelled to take the money; so they postponed action and
sought to evade the issue by proposing to establish a Department of
Homeopathy in some other place than Ann Arbor. But this was held illegal
by the Supreme Court and the matter was again postponed. At the end of
two years, partly at least as a result of President Haven's masterly
statement of the University's plight before the Legislature, a new law
was finally passed giving the University not only an annual subsidy of
$15,500 for the two ensuing years, but granting also the sum that had
accumulated for two years as a result of the first Act. Thus was the
University saved once more. The Board was not only enabled to bring the
University's facilities into correspondence with its rapid growth; but
more to the point, it could now increase the salaries of the Faculty so
that full Professors in the Literary Department at last received the
$2,000 originally provided in 1837. This relief was of the utmost
importance. Still more significant was the fact that a new policy was
inaugurated by which the necessity of state support for the University
was recognized; support which has never since been withheld, for the tax
was successively increased to one-sixth of a mill in 1893, to one-fourth
in 1899, and finally in 1907 to the present three-eighths of a mill. At
last Michigan, in the fullest sense of the term, became _the_ University
of the State of Michigan.

This was the culmination of President Haven's administration. A few
weeks later he resigned to accept the Presidency of Northwestern
University, a school maintained by his own denomination, where he
doubtless felt there were wider opportunities in his chosen field. His
resignation was accepted by the Regents with regret and the declaration
that the success of the University during the preceding six years "to a
large extent had been due to his learning, skill, assiduity, and eminent
virtues," a statement which was given added force by an unsuccessful
attempt to have him return during the interregnum of two years that
followed. He died in Salem, Oregon