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The Summer School

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
June
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
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THE SUMMER SCHOOL

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Will Have Over 300 Students This Year.

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IT COULD BE MADE 1000

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A Move to Reduce the Tuition Fees and Popularize It.

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The Acquiring of Boating Facilities and Making Ann Arbor a Summer Resort Would Greatly Aid in Building Up the School.

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The University Summer school shows a largely increased attendance this morning at the begining of the second day of the school there were 144 students entered in the literary department, a gain of 46 over the same time last year, when 98 had entered In the law department there were 49 students entered this morning which is 18 more than last year. The total enrollment in the literary department last year's summer school was 204, so that it promises to be consideralby over 250 this year. lt will be seen that the summer school attendance this year will be in all more than 300. This is the first year that the university has assumed direct control of the school and the change already seems to have been for the better. In some quarters a largo reduction in the amount of the tuition fees charged is advocated for next year to still further popularize the school and largely increase its attendance on the ground that it has been found to be an excellent feeder for the university. The fees are now placed at $15 for one course, $25 for two and $30 for three courses. If they were placed at say a straight fee of $10 for work in the summer school, the number of students would at once doubled or treble and although the total amount of the fees would not have increased, the effect would be to secure a still larger attendance upon the university proper. There is really no good reason why the summer school not have an attendance of more than 1,000 pupils. Another aid in this direction would be the pushing of the park scheme which has hitherto been outlined in these columns and the acquiring of the water rights now lying idle down the river below the dam of the Argo Mills so that excellent and convenient boating facilities could be provided Ann Arbor could and should be made a most attractive summer resort.

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RURAL MAIL DELIVERY

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ARRANGEMENTS FOR IT ABOUT YPSILANTI NEXT MONTH.

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But Some of Ypsilanti's Merchants Do Not Approve of it and a Weekly Editor Thinks it Would help Dailies.

 

Postmaster Bogarlus, of Ypsilanti, says he has a communication from the official in charge of the free rural mail delivery for this district containing the statement that he will be in Ypsilanti the latter part of next month to complete arrangements for the territory about Ypsilanti. There will be at least three carriers and each will have a route of 25 miles per day. The salary will be $400. No examination is required for these places. The official in charge of district having the power to appoint. The carriers will be allowed to carry passengers, do errands for farmers, take subscriptions for papers, etc. Like all other projects, the scheme of free rural mail delivery has its kickers said Postmaster Bogardus. The Argus wondered what anyone could find to kick about in the plan of delivering rural mail. Well, said the P. M. merchants kick because they claim it will keep farmers from coming to town. Then he said newspaper publishers, that is, publishers of weekly papers, object because they say the farmers will all take daily papers and that will kill off the weeklies. Hillsdale has but recently got the scheme in operation.