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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
December
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

As the Best University for Southern Students to Attend.

In the Southern Trade Record for December 19, 1898, an editorial writer points out in an interesting way the change which has recently come about in the South in matters of education.
In former years, he says it was the custom of Southern planters and business men to send their sons to northern universities and to Europe for higher education.
The war, by impoverishing the fathers, put an end to that custom for a time.
Now, however, when the south has recovered its former prosperity, "the sons just entering manhood, having been graduated from high schools and local colleges, are desirous of attaining that wider culture which was denied their fathers, but which their earlier ancestors possessed, and which made them for nearly a century the controllers of the destinies of the nation."
The writer goes on to say that he has received many communications from Southerners inquiring as to the university which gives the best and broadest education and closes with this significant paragraph :
   "It is our desire to state to those with whom we have been in correspondence and to others who may be interested, that there is, in our opinion, based on a large acquaintance with university bred men from various institutions, no university which combines general excellence and social requirements as does the University of Michigan - especially for Southern students.
The scholastic standard is of the highest, as well in technical and scientific studies as in those of a purely intellectual and abstruse order.
The high positions reached by its graduates have placed it among the first of the institutions of learning in the world."