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

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ri .il the parent in size and efficiency. But this -peaks only for leadership in the field of intellectual training. President Angell ' s iire-cminencc here is recognized everywhere, and attested by the award of academic honors by nearly all the great I ' niver-ities of this country, and by mem- bership in many learned societies. Indeed, the president of one of the eastern Univer- sities has expressed his appreciation by say- ing that under this administration Michigan ha l in his judgment, become the most in- fluential seat of learning on this continent. It is much to train men and women in- tellectually, but it is more to inspire to nobility in manhood and womanhood. Doctor Angell can have no more satisfying thought than that which may come from knowing, that in homes on every hillside and in almost every hamlet in this wide land and in many beyond the seas, are growing up men and women with these aspirations, caught from the fires on his altar, and blessed to children ' s children. It is the earnest prayer of all who love this old educational Mother, that he who takes up the task President Angell will lay down, may not only have great breadth and depth of scholarship and large administra- tive abilities, but that he may have that sympathetic Christian character which has made our President so beloved of all the sons and daughters of the I ' niver-itv Again and again has he been called to serve his country in high -tation and well has he met the responsibility, honoring his country and compelling the respect of tin- nations of the earth. But while the nation may honor him for his statesmanship and diplomacy, our tribute is inspired by his service as Our President Doctor Angell has asked to be relieved from the duties of his high office Regret that this time has come is tempered with the thought that this act,,,,, will ' no, him from our mid-t. May the rest he has waited for so long, and o rich v --, ed .., , .u. ! , . summer - s evcning and be . , Star-like steady, radiant ready, seeing far and seeing right. Fire-like glowing, cheer bestowing, gener- ous of heart and light This the statesman-scholar whom we honor in his own despite! N ' ot his burning thoughts nor golden Eloquence alone embolden Us to heights with glory smit, But his bright example holden In the heart, unconscious, golden, Life on lives of others writ Life that tells of longer life within, around, above. Life that treads the path of duty in the freedom that is love. Life that knows the worth of life and shows the wealth of it. Vain the praises that we give him, Vain, unworthy to outlive him. For he recks of praises nothing, counts them neither fair nor fit: i ; He who hears his honors lightly And whose age renews its zest I.o. the maple, snowed upon, is sightly And is s;,p ' runs best. Honor to him. peace unto him, pointing us the way above. Love unto him. long life to him, whom no love of life can move! . Hardly shall we find another When he ceases May God grant thec such another Counselor, O Reverend Mother. When he ceases. Grant us grciving one such other President and friend and brother Ripe in wisdom, just in judgment whom the years revolving prove Leading us the way of duty in the freedom that is love. Victor H. Lane.

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HngeU ORTY years will soon have passed since President Angell came and found us struggling to solve the problem of higher education by the State. Dr. Hinsdale, that Master of the theory and history of education, has said of this problem as applied to Michigan: The way was wholly untrodden. The question was whether a young American State, or any American State. could organize and carry on successfully, an institution of learning that deserved to be called a University. Neither the Old World nor the New threw much light on this question. The institution over which Doctor Angell came to preside in 1871, was then a University in name only. Whether the problem should be successfully solved, or what measure of success should be attained in its solution, was to depend more largely upon him than upon any other. The eyes of the whole educational world were upon the New President, and that school of learning whose chief execu- tive he had become. The problem was not being wrought out for Michigan alone, but for the sisterhood of States. Failure here and this great cause would be set back a half century. But fail- ure was not to come. He found us organized in- to three departments. His successor will find four more and a Graduate School. The faculties, including all grades of instructors then mar- shalled thirty-four men. This number has grown to nearly four hundred. There were only eleven hundred students of the University to hear his inaugural address. Today he walks our halls with more than five thousand young men and women, from almost every civilized state an ' d country in the world , to do him honor. His certificate of honorable attainment in scholarship is in the hands of more than twenty thousand graduates of Michigan; nearly seven times as many as had been graduated in all the previous history of the Uni- versity. Development in methods, and in the scope and quality of instruction given has well kept pace with advancement along other lines. Truly a most remarkable record of achievement in education, accomplished in a single presidential administration. There are heights yet unattained by Michigan. There is much yet to be accomplished here before the ideals of her best friends are realized, but it still is not too much to say, that under the admin- istration of President Angell the earlier problem has been solved. We now know that a young Amer- ican State can organize, and carry on successfully an institution of learning that deserves to be called a. University And under his leadership and the inspiration of his successes, many other institutions of higher learning, all over this great Western country, have been growing up until these children 12

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of Ctegente JAMES B. ANGELL, L. L. D. President HON. FRANK W. FLETCHER . ' . HON. HENRY W. CAREY ..... HON. LOYAL E. KNAPPEN .... HON. CHASE S. OSBORN HON. ARTHUR HILL HON. WALTER H. SAWYER .... HON. JUNIUS E. BEAL HON. FRANK B. LELAND SHIRLEY W. SMITH .... GEORGE S. BAKER .... HON. LUTHER L. WRIGHT, Supt. of Public ALPENA MANISTEB GRAND RAPIDS SAULT ST. MARIE SAGINAW ANN ARBOR DETROIT Secretary Treasurer Instruction