sty has been characteristic of the
Council's work. A similar regulation of the affairs of the women is
exercised by a Judiciary Council organized at the suggestion of the
University Senate in 1913.

Of all student organizations, however, the Michigan Union has
accomplished the most toward promoting the best interests of the student
body since its establishment as a general organization in 1904. To those
who are only familiar with the Union of later years, the name will
almost inevitably suggest the building rather than the organization. The
new club house, practically completed in the first months of 1920, is
naturally the obvious embodiment of the Union which strikes the observer
upon first acquaintance. It cannot be emphasized too strongly, however,
that the building is, after all, but the home of an organization. This
is the essential fact which has never been forgotten by the officers of
the Union. Their efforts from the first have been to make it, both as an
organization and as a building, of practical service for Michigan's
immense student body, which without the resources of a large city, needs
peculiarly such headquarters for all its wide and varied interests.
Perhaps the most concise definition of the Union is contained in the
preamble of its present Constitution:

To establish a University social and recreational center; to
provide a meeting place for Faculty, alumni, former students and
resident students of the University; and to help in fitting
Michigan men for the performance of their duties as good citizens.

It is the Union as a _body of students_, using the building as a means
to promote the best things in college life, to bring about a closer
co-ordination of all university activities, and a more sympathetic
co-operation between the undergraduates, Faculty, and alumni, that must
justify the money and energy spent in this great departure in American
college life,--for there is nothing in any American university today
that approaches the Union in size or the scale upon which its activities
are planned.

[Illustration: THE MICHIGAN UNION]

The need of such a building had long been felt by the students before
the first discussion on the part of the members of the senior society,
Michigamua, led to a call which brought representatives of all the
leading organizations in the University together in the spring of 1904.
The idea proved popular at once, though it was again the organizatio