Requests For Appropriations
The Board of Regents have prepared an estimate of the expenses of the University for the next two years and will ask the legislature for 366, 300. The memorial embodying the following general and special appropriations asked for will be presented to the legislature today, and no doubt will receive favorable attention from the new legislature, which, it is hoped, will look with favor on the remarkable growth and development of this, thegreatest University in the land, the pride of the state of Michigam. For the repair of the 17 buildings on the campus valued at $726,410, $5,000 is asked for repairs. Seventy-five thousand dollars is asked for an addition to University Hall to be used for administration and recitation room. Such an addition is an imparitive necessity, as the literary department is considerably cramped for want of room. The two hospitals will require $22,000 for their support during the next two years. Twelve thousand dollars is asked for by the dental department. There is no need more pressing than our library, and an appropriation of $15,000 each year is asked for its support. For salaries for instructors, the legislature is asked for $15,000 per year. For the completion of the engineering building and the enlarging of the anatomical laboratory, $15,000 is desired. Several small sums to be devoted to the science department is asked. Five thousand dollars is desired for purchasing an electrical plant for lighting the hospitals. The legislature is asked to consider the advisability of increasing the tax of one-twentieth of a mili on the dollar to onetenth of a mili. In comparison with other states Michigan's tax rate is exceedingly low. Wisconsin appropriates onefifth of mili, Colorado and California one mili. While the Regents do not ask the legislature directly for assistance in the completion of the gymnasium, they make a statement showing how the money for it has been raised, and invoke their sympathetic attention to it. It is urged in favor of a state appropriation toward the completion of the "gym," that inasmuch as the students have shown a disposition to help themselves, it is only fair that the state should see them through with the project so ably begun. It is hoped that the legislators will again pay a visit to the University, and see this great institution at work, as there can be no better argument of what is done with the state money than that gleaned from personal observation on the ground. There wül be an important meeting of the U. of M. athletic board on Tuesday evening, in Universsty Halt. Mrs. Nettie Hurley, wife of John E. Hurley, of Detroit, and daughter of Luther Moon, of Hamburg, died last week at Hot Springs, Ark., of consumption, aged 23 years. The funeral was held Mouday at Brighton. The address of G. H. Snow, of Detroit, last Saturday, bef ore the newlr organized University Fress Club, gave great satisfaction, and many valuable pointers we re given the prospectire journalists.
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