Our University

The University of Michigan sheds fa ui e and luster upon tho state of Michigan and not the state upon the university. The university has given the state a name famous the world over. Gointoanyof the civilized countries of the earth and Michigan with Massachusetts, stands fnr above the otlier states of the union because ot' their great seats of learniiii;. Notwithstandinr these facts ther seemsto be a few nietnbiTS in .Michigan' legislatura, built upon such a penurious picayune plan tliat they desire to crippl lier great university by denying it th necessary funds to keep abrenst of the times. Such action is quite unaccountable, in one who has been for auy length of time a resident of the state. We are not surprised to learn that some of the enemies of the university in the house are men Who Ikivo been residents of the state but a conipaiatlvely short time; haya moret he re, made their nioney; f;ot elected to tile legi-lature; and hope to inake for themselves a reputation for economy b cutting Uown necessary appropriatlons for a ;reat institución; wliile squanderitig time and the people's nioney bj druwing $3 per day for services that would be dear al 25 cents. An enemy to the university has sprung up in one Milo D. Campbell, of Brancb Co., a gradúate of the Normal school, at Ypsllaiiti, and a new member of the house. He is very bitter, uiireasonuble and venenious in oppotftlon. IIivmí .-tcured forhis own alma mater all be aked for, he now pops up like a snake iu the rrass and leeka to disgrace his own i-ttite by cntlt-avoiin to cripjile her iiiiivc'iily. And this man is u nativo of Michigan ! Bom and raared in this state, aod now leeking to deatroy her lostitatioot, pimply to go before his constituent with the cateh-penny clap-trap argument: '¦Diiln't I ik In the interest of economy?" Either lliat, or a feelilgof jealou-y absorbed Ui lus nake op while being filucuted at the Normal, either of wliirh are iiiiwortliy of a man We whave not heard of hls volee belng raUed in opposiüon to nppropria tions already maüe for state institutlons some of wliich have been enormous oompared to those asked by the university, wlien the work actually accomplishcd is considered. It looks like spite work. Underhandec and dirty at that, and to come from onc whoisa nativc of this state uinkes it al the more censurable and contemptible. Ann Arbor lias had many members o both houes of the lejrislature in years gone by, but neverone who raised a fin ger in opposkion to the normal school at Ypsilanti, while ou the contrary thej have alwnys favored that instlti.tion by voice and deed in every way possible. Still further, the university at Ann Arbor has liad inauy of its graduates as members of this anü past legislatures, and never has one been known to raise a partiële ofopposition to the appropriations asked for by the state normal school But it reraains for a normal school gradúate to stand up in the house anc through a spirit of petty jealousy attempt to strike a serious blow at the university by denying her necessary appropriations. Out upon such stiallowpated meauness. Can any one teil why the university appropriation bill was allowed to wait untll the very last, to be kicked and cutl'ed about, cut down and mercilessly "gutted" by a legisluture grown poor by liberal appropriations for every other cause? The way in which the whole affair has been managed is a digrace to those liaving it in charge, and to the state itself. Every other institution in the state can be liberally treated until it comes to the one institution that has made the name of " Michigan " fiimous the world over, and toward it a nijjgardly policy must be pursued. For shauie !