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in response to a feeling that the undoubted talent here could make such a magazine a meritorious success. In other spheres: the Student ' s Lecture Association has brought to University Hall a line of speakers of national and international prominence; among them, S. S. McClure, Ida M. Tarbell, John Mitchell, Charlemange Tower, and Justice David J. Brewer of the United States Supreme Court; among the Choral Union members were Marcella Sembrich, Anatole Bronstein and Ossip Gabrilowitsch. For the Sixteenth May Festival have been engaged the Theodore Thomas Orchestra, Herbert Wither- spoon, and conspicuous artists new to Ann Arbor. To attempt to enumerate all the distinct achievements in which the progressing University activity has expressed itself is not here necessary, later portions of the book do that, and the accomplished-fact side of these in their number, diversity and quality is not the side which this article would emphasize. We do not so fear a decline and failure of powers that we want a record on which to depend, stand, or rest. Our chief concern is in the present accomplishing of students and faculty in that growing, that kinetic doing, that life which is the Michigan we value. Attempts to define Michigan Spirit have not been successful, perhaps this is be- cause an attempt to define, is an attempt to set boundaries, to establish confines; and this assertive, Michigan something, raises havoc with all endeavor to hermetically enclose it. We can not wisely predict or set limits to its future. We can only indicate the present trend. It is undoubtedly the greatest essential of a University that it build character. That is the bed rock on which all superstructures must have foundation. Yet essential manhood and womanhood, composed of courage, loyalty, kindness, and readiness to serve are not the unique University product. Other institutions of so- ciety do quite as good a work in this regard, and any belief that college advantages are necessary to soundest character is to be ascribed to lamentable academic bigotry. But the work of a true University in enlightening the world, in developing in- tellect, taste and democratic fellowship is not even approximated by any organiza- tion of other sort. So, though a University must insist upon character, in the soundest sense of the term, and Michigan does unsparingly insist, that is not all. There must be an additional attainment to entitle to University eminence. It is the distinction of Michigan: That though she has long found her peers in scholarship only among the highest, her doing is becoming more and more a doing which demands greater mental accuracy, penetration and grasp; for this, the raised standards, the higher requirements in the courses, the more trying examinations speak. That in spite of Ann Arbor ' s established position as the Athens of the West there is a remarkable livening of the doing whose function is the elevation of artis- tic tastes and standards; the creation of such an opera as Culture ; the remarkable production of The Admirable Crichton and the founding of the Ann Arbor Art Association, rev al something of this. That in spite of Michigan ' s recognized pre-eminence as a democratic University, there is under way a movement toward a more united comradeship surpassing the wisest anticipations of a few years past. The certain evidence and apparent hope of this movement is the Michigan Union. HOWARD C. HAWKINS.
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