University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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awakening consciousness and dignity while the thousand students enrolled gave promise of material stahility. The next year non-resident entrance fees were raised to twenty-live dollars, and in still the next the professors reward had climbed laboriously from five hundred dollars in 1841 to two thousand. . iniil all this quietness and seeming contentment there was one change of importance, the admission of women. In 1855 Doctor Haven the future president, after advocating coeducation in a senate meeting, writes Not a member of the faculty approved it. It was regarded as rather a dangerous joke on mv part. Four- teen years later, however, the sentiment for the higher education of women had become so strong that the Legislature recommended their enrollment. February 2, 1870, Miss Madalon 1.. Steukwell was admitted to the classical course and thirty-four women entered in the succeeding fall. Contemporary information asserts that they were above the average age of students and one admirer refers to them in the somewhat equivo- cal language as A trusty band of pioneers. At first their presence was ignored, but better judgment pre- vailed and only at long intervals does the Segregated Man sigh for the seclusion that he does not want. The last thirty years have witnessed the flowering of the University. With the coming of Or. Angell in 1871, begins the practice of special appropriations from the Legislature enabling a more rapid growth in build- ings Two years later current expenses were largely provided for by the one-twentieth of a mill tax law. In this same year of 187.1 University Hall was completed at a cost of one hundred and eight thousand dollars, and by the end of the decade buildings for the Homeopathic and Dental Colleges, the Museum, and a central heating plant added to the equipment of the cam pus. The Library was opened in 1883. Traditions areas plentiful in this period of expansion as in the modern editorial columns of the Daily. Rushing, side-walk raids, burn- ing of mechanics, and horning the faculty are discreetly forgotten by sober alumni in advising their sons of the good old days. A gallery storm of grass bouquets and a rooster seriously marred the class exercises in 1872, and no one knows the number of secrets buried in the mire of the Cat-hole. Youthful exuberance troubled the faculty as well as the police. In 1865 concerted bolting was forbidden unless the professor did not ap- pear by five minutes after the hour. Mein Gott, poys, cried an outraged German professor, sie must nicht at the faculty chalk throw. In 1865 a Memorial building was planned among the alumni for the Michigan dead in the Civil war. In ' 67 the maize and the blue became the college colors. The following year inaugu- rated the Senior Hop handed on in 1871 to the Juniors to become an annual affair. Class caps and canes made their appearance in ' 69 and ' o, the same year that Acting President Frieze gave the tirst annual Com- mencement dinner. Many of the present organizations are of long growth. The Alpha Nu societv begun its career in 1843, the Adelphi in ' 57, the Webster in ' 59. Programs of the Students Lecture Association dating from 1854 bear the names of E. P. Whipple, Ralph Waldo Kmerson, Bavard Tavlor, Wendell Phillips, and Kclward Everett. The Young Mens ' Christian Association started four years later, and the present Glee Club traces its beginning to 1870. The Chronicle, a College paper, ran from 1869 to 1890 when it was succeeded by the Michigan Daily. In ' 01 the Inlander began its publications and in ' 94 the Alumnus. The University of Michigan is now completing the sixty-ninth year of her existence. Her student enroll- ment ranks fourth in the United States. Her teaching force has trown from two to three hundred and five, the number of campus buildings from five to seventeen and the annual expenditure hovers around seven hun- dred thousand dollars. Amid material prosperity, however, it is not to lie forgotten that Michigan stands for something more than mere bigness. She is the first Universitv whose governing body was chosen di- rectly by the people, a striking vindication of the democracy of the West. She was the firs! to begin the primal feature of all modern University instruction, the substitution of the lecture for the text book system. While not the first she is the greatest of the State Universities. March 10. iu x . F. B. K.

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mittee, petition rather for walks; complaining that We are obliged before clear light of day to wend our way to our recitations through darkness and mud. As the present generation knows the faculty petition succeeded and now the oozy bottoms of the annual spring canals are paved with cement. During the first ten years of its existence the University had been without an actual permanent executive, the Governor of the State being the titular president while the real work of administration was yearly assumed by different members of the University senate. By the constitutional changes of 1850, the president received his appointment from the Board of Regents who in turn were elected by the people, thus making Michigan the first University to be governed by a body chosen directly by the people themselves. Dr. Tappan, successively a minister, a professor, and writer on moral and intellectual philosophy, received the first appointment under the new regime in 1852. He found the Medical College, started in 1850, with an enrollment of one hundred and fifty-three and set himself earnestly at work to build a University. Through his industry a partial course corresponding to the modern special course accommodated students not desirous of obtaining a degree and a more determined attack on the older provincialism secured a limited number of electives in the Senior year. Present conditions still further asserted themselves in the substitution of the semester system for the pre- vious three term year. Hut his greatest and most significant contribution to the New Semenary was the gradual abolition of the text book in favor of lecture instruction, the first trial of the German University method OLD GATE IN WINTER on this side of the Atlantic. Subscriptions from Detroit and Ann Arbor made the erection of an observatory possible and added twelve hundred books to the library. In 1858 a law school opened with Professors Cooler, Campbell and Walker in the chairs, lectures being delivered in the chapel till the completion of the law build- ing in 1863. Easy entrance requirements, (minimum age limit of eighteen and evidence of a good moral char- acter) enabled ninety men to enroll the first year in the two term course, each term of six months duration. At the same time the Literary enrollment had crept to two hundred and eighty-five and the library contained ten thousand volumes. Doctor Tappan resigned in 1863. His was a work of beginnings but he planned wisely. Withal he was a kindly man; under his administration the morning chapel hour was changed from half-past five to a quarter to eight. Throughout the succeeding administrations of Doctor Haven and acting President Frieze the University settled intoa comatose condition gathering strength for the rapid growth toward the end of the century. Between ' 63 and ' 71 only a few minor alterations were made in the campus buildings. There were however signs of a steady normal growth. The first honorary degree granted in 1867 betrays

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3fn ALKKKT H. I ' ATTKNGILL, A.M., Professor of Greek Died at Ann Arbor, March 16, Aged 64. KuriT, Literary, 1905-6 Died at his Ho ' tie at Saginaw, March 19, Aged 19. VIRGINIA AGNES THOMPSON, Literary, 1904-5 Died at Ann Arbor, October 9, 1906, Aged 21. RALPH WALDO OAKLEY, Literary, 1904-6 Died at Detroit, Mich., November 14, 1905, Aged 17. ARTHUR CHRISTIANSEN, Engineer, 1904-6 Died at Greenville, Michigan, February 19, 1906, Aged 21. JAMES DONALD MclNTOSH, Literary, 1904-5 Died at Phoenix, Arizona, May 12, 1905, Aged 19. ROBERT HUNTINGTON JACOBS, Literary, 1903-4 Drowned at Freedom, N. H., Sept. 7, 1905, Aged 21. PERCY DOUGLAS POUND, Literary, 1904-5 Drowned at Detroit, September 4, 1906, Aged 19. ALBERT HENDERSON PATTENG1LL Professor Pattengill entered the faculty of the University nearly thirty-seven years ago, and for over a third of a century has impressed upon the life of this institution the influence of a strong nature. Many of us remember the hours spent in his class-room; we recall his quiet demeanor, his placidity, his calm exterior, through which glowed intense interest in his lesson and in the minutest problem of translation. In his undemonstrative way without the ordinary appearances of deep enthusiasm he expressed his own devotion to his work and awakened a corresponding feeling in his students. It never occurred to his classes that they might be listless or inattentive or that to be nearly right was sufficient; for his spirit was contagious and without a word of sharp reproof he led us on to an appreciation of accuracy and completeness. To find the exact word, to catch the finest shade of thought, to grasp with assurance the subtilest meaning, became for us an absorbing occupa- tion. Though he loved the knotty problems of translation and the niceties of grammatical construc- tion, he had a feeling for words and for the sentiments and beauties of literature. All this means that he was a great teacher, and little more need he said of any man. As a colleague and a friend Professor Pattengill was large minded, sympathetic, and generous, with a peculiar faculty of entering into the interests of those about him and of forgetting himself. Many a student went to him in hours of perplexity, to consult him on trivial questions of college work or on the weightiest matters of individual life; and such confidence was always met with ready appreciation, with understanding, with fellow-feeling and with wisdom. Many of his friends on the faculty turned to him continually for advice and encouragement, relying on his unusual judgment, his unselfish interest, and his unfailing sincerity. And there was withal in this quiet undemonstra- ive man not only a strength on which his friends naturally relied, not only a certain bigness which his very presence suggested, but a depth of human feeling and a warmth of affection which only those that needed him could know in full measure. For some years he was chairman of the Ad- ministrative Board, and in this position he showed marked capacity for administration. He performed the duties of the office with the requisite attention to details; but here as elsewhere his greatest service was ' in aiding students, setting them right and under- standing their needs. For the last ten years his most significant work outside of the class-room was in the direction and control of Athletics. As chairman of the Board in Control he devoted untiring energy to the betterment of athletic conditions, to encouraging a spirit of manliness and fair play and to looking after and solving justly the perplexing problems that con- stantly arose. The value of his influence and his strong, honest personality cannot be easily overes- timated. Thus in many ways the life of a vigorous man was wrought into the life of our university. It is a comfort to remember that the influence of his character on its destinies is undying. ANDREW D. MCLAUGHLIN. ALBERT H. PATTENGILL