The Gymnasium

To the Honorable Board of Regente of the Unlrersity of Michigan : Gentlemen- The uudersigned tneiubers of the several f'aculio.1 of the Univer.iity of' Michigan, begleave to present you the following memorial : On the 221 of September, 1869, your honorable body appointed a commi;tee represented by the several faculties tbm exisling in tlie univer-ity, with instruetions to examine and report to the board in regard to the propriety ol estaulisliitig a ííinasiiini in coiinection witli the Uuiversity. That eomuiitiec cnnsi.ted of the following persons: Al. U. XyWr, Kdward Olney, C. L. Ford, and T. M. Cooley. At the next meeting of the board this comuoit tee presented an elabórate report upon the subject proposed to them, wliioh report was spread upon the records of the bond of regents and ordered printed. The report was trongjy in favor of the estabüihment of a univeraity gyinasiuiD, hut in cousequenco of a lack of funds the board was unable to carry out the recommendations of tho coinmittec, although at the meeting aforesaid an expression was made in favor of the plan. Lor] 1 years this subject has been in abeyance here, s ) far as any offi cial action is concerned. Meantime the evideuoc of tho neod of a gymnasium has been multiplying, and within the past two years the students have taken hold of the matter with great earnesinoüs, and by their own efforts have raised a fund of nearly $1,200 for the purpose and are still at work to increase that fund. All ujoneys raised by the students for this purpose are handed over to a board of' trustees and by them to be delivered to the board of regents whenever the regents may be ready to proceed with the erection of a gymnasium ; but it is obvious that without a special appropriation it will be many years before the student's fund can be made large enough to procure a suitable building. Ve therefore beg leave to suggest to your honorable body that perhaps it may now be a suitable time for measures to be taken to assit the students in their earnest and honorable endeavor; and that, if it should not be incompatible with other important plans under consideration, it might be well to include an appropriation for a gymnasium among the requesta whieh you may have to lay before the next legislature. HeDry S. Freize, aeting president. U. K. Adams, dean ol' faculty of literature, science and arts. A. B. l'almer, dean of faculty of medicine and surgery. T. M. Cooley, doan of law faculty. Albert B. Prescott, dean of faculty of school of pharniacy. E. C. l(ranklin, dean of' faculty of homeopatuy. J. Taft, dean of faculty of dental college.