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

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from different parts of the United States, to share their pleasures and responsi- bilities, to work with them in laboratory, to compete with them in the classroom or on the athletic field or on the debating platform this is the experience that stamps out the narrow provincialism of the average student and makes him tolerant and broad-minded. And it is for the purpose of fostering student initiative that every encouragement is given to student activities of a constructive character. Besides the social experience contributed by the Union, many other inter- ests are stimulated by special organizations under student management. Honor and departmental societies, literary and foreign language associations, dramatic, musical, debating, and social clubs, and other similar groups present to the 1 WATERMAN AND BARDOVR GYMNASIUMS student ample opportunity for the development of his special aptitudes. And permeating all these activities is a wholesome spirit of democracy, which awards recognition on the basis of merit and bestows privilege upon none. LIVING CONDITIONS With the exception of members of fraternities and sororities, and the women in the dormitories, students at Michigan live in the private homes of the city. A wide choice is therefore open to students in selecting a rooming house, so that they may fit their expenses to their allowances. The women room in houses that are supervised by the University, a circumstance which insures good living con- ditions. It is estimated that the average student can live on five or six hundred dollars a year without serious difficulty. Many students are wholly or partially self-supporting. Probably forty per cent of the students earn all or part of their expenses. They are assisted by student employment bureaus, conducted by the University Y. M. C. A. and the Michigan Union. From four to five thousand jobs are available annually to needy students through these agencies. I

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THE XEW LIBRARY The new Library, nearing completion, will accommodate seven hundred thousand volumes, with the possibility of additions to the stacks that will nearly double that number. The reading room is 170 feet long and 50 feet wide. The undergraduate study room is 60 feet square. The whole building is approxi- mately 175 feet square and 80 feet high. By utilizing the old book stacks, the University now has a library worth not less than $650,000. The building is of reinforced concrete, faced with Bedford limestone for the foundation and tapestry brick for the walls above, trimmed with terra cotta. Though utilitarian in design, the building is altogether stately in its lines and impressively large. The facade between the two tiers of windows is adorned with ten medallions designed by Ricci. They represent Religion and Philosophy, Law. Earth, Science, Medicine, Mathematics and Engineering, Fine Arts, Poetry and Music, Drama, and History. Seminary and conference rooms and study alcoves are among the numerous features which, for completeness of detail and convenience of arrangement, place the Michigan Library in the front ranks of the university libraries of the country. HILL AUDITORIUM Hill Auditorium, known as one of the very finest music halls in the world, was made possible through the generous bequest of the late Hon. Arthur Hill, of Saginaw, an alumnus of the Univer- sity and for many years a member of the Board of Regents. It has a seat- ing capacity of more than five thou- sand, and is used for all the important public university occasions, such as the Choral Union and May Festival concerts. Convocation, pageants, mass meetings, lectures, and the like. In it is housed the famous Stearns col- lection of musical instruments, which has recently been catalogued by Prof. Albert A. Stanley, Director of the School of Music, and now comprises one of the most important musical assets of the University. The Frieze Memorial Organ, originally constructed for the Columbian Exposition, has also been permanently installed in this building. STUDENT ACTIVITIES Associations outside the classrooms afford the students of Michigan no small part of their educational training. With a great cosmopolitan student body and opportunity for intimate social contact among its members, Michigan under- graduate life very satisfactorily reproduces the conditions prevailing in the world of affairs. To exchange opinion with foreigners, as well as with men and women

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The annual fee, which is less for residents of the state than for those outside the state, is distributed among the several schools and colleges of the University as follows : Literature, Science, and the Arts residents, men $49, women $45 ; non-residents, $69 and $65 ; Engineering and Architecture residents, men $64, women $60; non-residents, $94 and $90; Medicine residents, men $107, women $103; non residents, $127 and $123; Law residents, men $74, women $70; non- residents, $84 and $80; Pharmacy residents, men $64, women $60; non-resi- dents, $84 and $80; Homoeopathic Medicine ' (same as Medicine) ; Dental Sur- gery residents, men $114, women $no; non-residents, $134 and $130; Graduate (same as Literature, Science, and the Arts). The number of students enrolled in the University during the past year, including the Summer Session, was more than 7,000. THE WAR It is easy to understand that the war must have made serious demands upon the student body. More than two thousand men left the University last year to engage in some sort of activity connected with the war. The Reserve Officers ' Training Corps, with a membership of 1,800 early in the year, was reduced to little over a thousand by the departure of men for the various training camps, while the non-military stu- dents were no less prompt to volunteer for the camps and for service in the in- dustries identified with war needs. With the establishment of students ' army and navy corps last Fall, Michigan ' s enroll- ment of prospective soldiers and sailors, the largest among the colleges and universities, was over 3,800. These men were housed in the fra- ternities and were fed at the Union mess hall. With the demobilization of the corps approximately fifty per cent of the uniformed men left the University, most of them only temporarily, purposing to re-enter at the beginning of the second semester. Owing to the exacting nature of the military training, many of the men, finding it impossible to keep up their academic work, decided to make a fresh start the second term. It is confidently expected that the attendance will increase rapidly and continuously during the next few years.