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Is It Right?

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
September
Year
1885
Copyright
Public Domain
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The metí who compose the board of regents of our universlty are usually selected for their good business traits, as wcll is snbstantial diameters, but occasionally it is iicticed that tbeir acts are subject to just criticism. In a recent Detroit paper we find the followlog dispatch from Ann Arbor. The board of regen Uyesterday granted perni-Mcjii to Prof. D'Ooge to accept tlie directorstilp 01 tlie A menean college ui urcnceoioy at aiIumik. he to receivo hls suhny wblle alisen t. ( A puiiod of two years.) The den of paying a clerk or other employé full s;ilary during an absence óf two 3pears, and biling one or two other men to take bis place during bucIi absence, would not for one moment be entertained by a business man in his own allUirs. Is it not as important that the state's business sliould be niauaged with the same care that private business is manajred? At a meeting of the regents held last spring, it will be remeinbered that the salaries ot the jan tors were reduced from 500 per annum to $450. These men are laborer's, hard workers, and they must be ground down, forced to live from handto-mouth, as the expression is, on & mere nittance per year. But when a man ceiving a salary cf $2.200 per innum de8ires to go off on a pleasure tour of Europe for a couple of years, he is not only allowed to draw lus salary of $2.200 continually, bilt one or two other professors are hired to lili the vacuuin he leaves. Would it not be difllcult to find the justice of such proceedings? Would it not be more in accorü with business principies to lop ofl enough from absent professor' salarles to pay the janitors tbat extra $30 per year, and thus give tliem a living salary at least? A deserved compliment lias been paid Prof. W. H. Pettec by the American Association for the Advnncement of Science in bis sclection for the position of assistant genenil secretary. Tlie Professor lia been indefat!able in his labors tu ínake Che i!4tli meeting a succestful one. lie lias given his time, working early and late, depriving liimself of tlie privilege of attonding the meetings he Would have so much enjoyed, and has been courteous and aflable tlirougli it all. The friends of Prof. Pettee and they are numerous, will rejoice nt his good fortune. One of the warmest lVii-mls the University ever had was large-hearted Qov. John J. Bafleyol Hctroit. It is therefore rtght tliat the university should have hispicture hAngingon its walls. A magnificent oil palnting by Ivés has just been presented by íírs. Bagley, and it is placed in the library reading room. The regret throughout literary circles thatthe Current published in Chicago, has suspended i.-s freni-ral. It was an excelleut periodical, lilled with eutertainirjg and Instructive reading, and deserved success.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News