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

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Board of Regents HARRY BURNS HUTCHINS, LL.D., President HON. JOHN H. GRANT .... HON. WALTER H. SAWYER . HON. JUNIUS E. BEAL .... HON. FRANK B. LELAND . HON. WILLIAM L. CLEMENTS . HON. HARRY C. BULKLEY . HON. BENJAMIN S. HANCHETT HON. Lucius L. HUBBARD . HON. LUTHER L. WRIGHT, Lansing, SHIRLEY W. SMITH .... ROBERT A. CAMPBELL . Manistee .... Dec. 31, 1913 Hillsdale .... Dec. 31, 1913 Ann Arbor . . . Dec. 31, 1915 Detroit Dec. 31, 1915 Bay City .... Dec. 31, 1917 Detroit Dec. 31, 1917 Grand Rapids . . . Dec. 31, 1919 Houghton .... Dec. 31, 1919 Superintendent of Public Instruction Secretary of the Board Treasurer of the Board

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nouncements were made to the literary students at chapel service, and the medical students at their lectures. Conditions and plucks in examinations were made publicly before all the students an added pang to the unfortunates. The greatest disturbance of the usually quiet and even flow of the current of college life was caused by the outbreak of the Civil war in 1861. Space is lacking to do more than barely refer to this great event. The University became transformed into a camp. Men formed into companies and drilled daily on the campus. Soon came enlistments of the bravest and most heroic. The President spent more than half the hour of his class in philosophy in discussing the campaign of McClellan. The names of these brave sons of the University who gave their youthful lives to their country are to be preserved in the archives of our Alumni Association, and their memory is to be honored by a suitable monument in the Memorial Hall. In the early period of my connection with the Uni- versity as one of its teaching staff, women were first ad- mitted. This event made a great stir in the life of the university. The sentiment of the student body was almost wholly opposed to it. The majority of the faculty were understood to be unfriendly. It was looked upon as a doubtful experiment at the best. The feeling in certain quarters may be illustrated by the following anecdote : One warm spring day in 1870, when windows and doors were wide open, a large Newfoundland dog strayed into the room of Prof. Williams. When one of the boys arose to put him out, the professor jocosely remonstrated say- ing, Be careful, don ' t you know that the Regents have recently passed a law by virtue of which every resident of the State of Michigan is entitled to all the privileges of the University of Michigan? But the experiment of coedu- cation could not have been entered upon more auspiciously. The first woman in the University, by reason of her ladylike bearing and fine scholarship. soon won her way and became one of the most popular members of her class. Not long after graduation she married a class-mate, and set an example that has since been followed by many. But I have been expatiating upon the early days already beyond the bounds. A long memory makes a long story. I could easily make it longer if I dared. [13]

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