ew years Michigan had as many students enrolled as most of the other
institutions of that time, while the extraordinary growth of the Medical
and Law Schools in the period just after the Civil War probably gave her
the largest number of students in any university.

This, with the great increase which has come to all universities and
particularly the state institutions within the last twenty years or so,
has given Michigan an unusually large body of alumni. There are,
however, a number of universities, notably Columbia, California, and
Chicago, which have had a very large enrolment of late years, and it is
not unlikely that within a few years their alumni catalogues will
contain more names than Michigan's. It may be remarked in connection
with the relatively large proportion of those who have not received
degrees, about 42 percent of the total, that this number has been
increased by war-time conditions, and that judging from former records
it is about ten percent higher than in more normal times.

Michigan has always taken an especial pride in the fact that, although a
state university, her student body has been recruited almost as much
from the rest of the country as from Michigan; while there has always
been a not inconsiderable proportion of students from foreign countries.
This national enrolment has had a broadening and stimulating effect upon
the student body and has given the University a powerful influence
throughout the country. Her graduates are to be found in every state in
the Union, though they are probably proportionately stronger in the
states west of the Mississippi, whose development came just in time to
attract the enterprising and vigorous youth who had his future to make
and gladly seized the opportunity to grow up with the new country.
Michigan, with her low tuition charges, even for non-residents, and her
equally moderate cost of living, has been also pre-eminently a college
for students of limited means. Thus, while there are many men of wealth
among her alumni, they are almost all men who have made their own way,
and have a position in their communities corresponding to their energy
and proved ability.

For some years the attendance from Michigan, though it is somewhat
greater now, has averaged 55 percent. This is unusually significant when
the great extent of the State is considered, particularly since most of
the students from the Northern Peninsula usually pass through three
other states to r