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

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History of the University of Michigan Next to man himself, there is nothing so human as a university. Our friend, the law student, might almost he excused if he called it a quasi-human institution. For a university is something more than a lifeless corpora- tion. It is a living thing, made up of its students. Those hopes and ideals that make up the personality of the men and women that study there are the same hopes and ideals that make up the personality of the college. To this personality is due the influence of the University of Michigan. It has grown not only in buildings and departments, hut it has grown in influence until today it is a force over our entire country. The growth of its influence is an essential part of the historv of the institution, yet we cannot trace it concretely as we can trace material growth. It is well to remember, however, this growth of influence, lest, in recording the phenomenal development of the University, Michigan shall seem to stand for mere size and nothing more. The University of Michigan was created by the laws of 1837. The organizing act provided for literary and professional faculties. On June 5, 1837, a meeting of the first Board of Regents was held. Work was immediately -begun on buildings, and, in the autumn of 1841, the University threw open its doors to all the world. UNIVERSITY HALL SOME YEARS AGO