er,
certain steps were taken, aside from his effort to inaugurate true
graduate study, which had a vital bearing on the development of research
work in the future. These came through the establishment of the
Astronomical Observatory and the Chemical Laboratory. Dr. Bruennow, the
first Professor of Astronomy, came to Michigan inspired by a prospect of
scholarly leadership and the results of his investigations and those of
his pupil and successor, Professor Watson, gave to the University a
world-wide reputation among scholars. The same was true, though perhaps
to a lesser degree, of the Department of Chemistry, whose little
Laboratory, the first separate building for that purpose in America,
attracted advanced students from all quarters--the enrolment of special
students sometimes reaching seventy, of whom at least some were doing
work corresponding to the graduate courses of the present time. The
students of this department as a whole have had a profound influence
upon the development of the industrial and commercial resources of the
State.

With the succession of Dr. Haven to the Presidency, the emphasis was
thrown almost entirely on the immediate and practical problems of
general instruction. He was not a scholar in the modern sense, as was
Dr. Tappan, and the University's first requirement was fairly obvious.
But the higher function of the University was not forgotten by the
leading men of the Faculty. President Hutchins tells how he was drawn to
Michigan in 1867 from his hillside farm home in Vermont by the
reputation of Michigan's Faculty. He had become greatly dissatisfied
with the educational facilities offered in the East, though he did not
know exactly what he wanted to do. Just at this time his father returned
from a business trip in the West and reported that he had found the
right place for him in the University of Michigan. The young man
replied, "Oh, I know about Ann Arbor." The father was somewhat surprised
and asked how that happened. "Well," said Michigan's future President,
"I have noticed that the editor of the Virgil I study is Professor
Frieze, at Ann Arbor, and in Greek there is a Professor Boise; my French
textbooks are by Professor Fasquelle; while in mathematics my books are
by Professor Olney. It seems to me that must be a pretty good
university." So despite dire warning, from his grandmother as to the
dangers from the desperadoes of the West, to say nothing of the Indians,
he came to Michigan;