Will Stay At U. Of M.

The board of regenta in exeontive session last Thnrsday morning made fiual disposition of the matter of renioving the homeopathie ooilege to Detroit. The report, which was presented by Regent Butterfield, said tbat ''after consideraron the board decided that so radioal a changa shonld not be made without sfction of the legislatnre, as the homeopathio school was dependent upon special legislation, and tlius so far as the board was ooucerned the matter ended, and the gentleman who made the suggestion has since coased to be a member of the faculty, not, however, for that reasop. In the opinión of your oommittee the personal rivalries and dissensioDs which divided the homeopathio faculty at tbat time, and which paralyzed its efficiency had a great deal more to do with the falling off in the attendance of the homeopathie college than the discussion of tbis resolntion. " 'That two years ago a bilí was introduced at Lansing to abolish the homeopathie college.' Your committee have no present means of verifying this statement, but they are oertain tnat no such action was ever taken or approved of by this board. Nor had the board any information on the subjeot, nor is it iu any way responsible for it. "The statement is made that the board refnsed to oomply with the law. At the last session of the legislature of this state, an aot, No. 257, public acts 1895, was passed, directing tbis board to remove the homeopathie hospital to Detroit on condition that prior to snch removal a enitable site for the looation of the buildings of such depart ment should be donated to the state in fee simple, and on the fnther condition that au arrangement be made with Grace hospital for the use of the same on sueh terras as the regents shall deern appropriate, without expense to the state." The committee stated that the oouditions had been fulfllled in no way, althougb the board had done nothing in the way of a hindtance. The, report then said "that a little over one year ago the present faculty took the school without praotioally any attendanoe and by' their industry and by their ability and nnited action they have already brought it to its present condition in the fao of the opposition of á number of homeopathie praotitioners in this state who seem not so anxious that the principies of medicine whioh they claim are the true ones, sbould be tanght as that they should be tanght in a oertaiu place. "The circular, however, outlines a sóbeme of action by which the board of regents of this university are to be deprived of the diecretionary powers which the people of this state have vested ia thexu by the organic law of tbe state, by presenting to them the hard alternative of the abandonrnent of those rigbts or the starvation of the nn iversjty. It becomes, therefore, not ouly proper that unjnstiflable attacks npou the past action of the board should be repelled, bnt that the question should be frankly and fully considered as to what should be done for the futnre. In order fully to onderstand this question it is necessaiy to cousider the posición of the homeopathie medical college in the university at tbe present time. It has always been admitted that except as to a very limited number of subjects the teachings of the students of the homeopathie college aud of tbe college of medicine and surgery are the same All the homeopathie profession has ever asked until lately is that instructions in these few subjects should be kept separate. Por the flrst two years of the rnedioal oourse in the university the students of both colleges take the same course, listen to the same lectures and work in tbe game laboratorios In this way a very large amount of expense has been annually aaved to tbe state. Apparatus, laboratories and museums have been used in oommon, wbich in case of a removal to Detroit it will be necessary to duplícate. This bas for rnany years met with general approval. Lately, bowever, tbt:re bas been a constant cry trom a part of the homeopathio profession in this state for the institutiou of a homeopathio college with a full lour years' course, separate in equipmeut and in all the teaching chairs. The board bas hitherto ndt yielded to tbis deinaud, flrst, beoanse in their jndgrnent there was uo reason wby tbe state should be put to the greater expense necessary to the change because it did not beileve that the efficiency of tbe college wonld be thereby increased, and second, because it was imposBible for fiaancial reasons to accede to it. It is the judgment of the oommittee that the approriatiou of $25,000 made by the legislatura ig less i tban half what would be necessary to ■ i establish the homeopathie department in Detroit, excludiug, of course, any expenditure for site. "It is to be ooa8idered that in the rernoval of the homeopathie school to Detroit," the report continúes: '"the board of regents are expecled to erubark on a serious enteiprise and one which migbt have to the university at large very eerions oousequences. By tbe act kuown as the 1-6 mili bilí, from wbich the university derives its revenues from the tatfc, it is provided tbat the geyeral departmeots shall be maintaiued as they then existed. If, therefóre, this department wonld be onoe removed to Detroit, those inteiested in that special school might aud probably will insist that the same facilities for education by way of teaohers, libraries and laboratores as are uow afforded at Ann Ar bor to their school should be furuished at Detroit. And to accomplish tbis either the state must eaoh year add more than $25,000 to the income of the nniverity, in addition to the large expense of the installment of the college, or else the other departments must be weakened and the efficiency of the nniversity as a whole saorificed to thia one school. If the people of the state d6sire a separate school of homeopathy at Detroit, they shonld at least understand in advance the magnitude of the task tbey are andertaking and they should not ask tliis board to acoomplish impossibilities. In view of the wide difference of opinión which exists between the promoters of tbis enterprise and this board as to that expense, we would suggest that in case snob a sohool be establisbed, it be establisbed under a separate board, so that no claim can be made that the school ia not treated fairly in oomparison with other branches of the nuiversity, and the state may be able to ascertain the aotual cost of such an institntion. It will then appear whether this board is correct or not. "Yonr committee has thns far cunsidered maiuly the mete qnestion of dollars and cents. Helmut all these and above all these is the more important qaestion of its effect upon the uuiversity. Long ago the people of this state abandoned the idea of a university with separate branches in its different cities and adopted the poliny of centeriog all its departments in its present looation. There, where each department has added to the development and growth of all the rest, it has grown to its present position of eminence amnng the nuiversities of tbe world. If it is proper to satisfy a few of tbe members of oDe of tbe great professious to remove one of its departments to Detroit, it is on the rnqnest of other of the citizens of the state proper to remove other departments to other cities, aud once cominenced there is no visible opportunity for pausing iu the procesa of disintegration. It would be the beginniug of the end. In the opinión of your cotnmittee, to grant the prayer of the petitioners would be not only a most flagrant breach of the dnty laid upon us by the legislature of this state, not only impossible with any funds within the oontrol of tbis board, and not only uuadvisable for tbe real interest of the school itself, bat daugerons as tbe flrst step in a polioy wbich ouoe entered npon conld not easily be abandooed, and whioh wonld ultimately lead to the destruction of the univernity. " The regents adopted tbe report as presented. This means that the homeopaths who want their department removed to Detroit will have to seoure au amendment to the state conBtitntion before they will be able to do so. The circular referred to in the committee report is the letter sent out from Detroit by Dr. D. A. MaoLacblan as president of tbe State Homeopathie Society, in whioh he advocated the placing of a "rider" upon the university appropriation bilí as a means of forcing a removal from the regents