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

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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.

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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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J 1 WHAT MICHIGAN STANDS FOR Enlightened citizenship is the ideal toward which the University is success- fully striving in all that it does for its great cosmopolitan student body. To produce the cultivated and well-trained man and woman, to send students into life with an intelligent appreciation of their obligations to the state and to society generally, to equip them with the skill and knowledge necessary to an effective living of life this is the end sought in all the educational endeavors to which Michigan has committed itself. Alichigan has long recognized the fact that the citizen should be something more than a technically trained individual. Besides preparing men and women for their special work in the world, therefore, Mich- igan seeks to broaden their sympathies, strengthen their loyalties, enrich their capacity to appreciate what is truly admirable, so that their personalities will contribute to the higher and more permanent satisfactions of life. The public support of the University is justified by the good it confers upon those who enjoy its privileges and by the influence it exerts, through its graduates and as a center of enlightenment, upon the commonwealth. This purpose is being achieved through the forty thousand alumni and former students whom it has prepared for citizenship. It may truly be said that Michigan is a national university. It draws its students from every state in the Union and from practically all the foreign countries as well. It is the fulfillment of President Henry P. Tappan ' s splendid hope for its possibilities of development a people ' s university, worthy of its name, doing a work that shall be heartily approved by the present generation, but ever looking to the future for worthier achievements, so that it may go forward with increasing power through the generations to come. J. L. B. THE UNIVERSITY LAUNDRY 24