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The University's Greek Appendix

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Day
7
Month
October
Year
1885
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Public Domain
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From the Detroit Eveulng New. Some time figo the recenta of the Uniranlty of Michigan granted to Pfof, Martin L. D'Ooge, professor of the Greek language and ita literuture at that institution, leave of absence tor a year with full pay to take charge of the American school at Athene, üreece. There was do great amount of justiücation made for ttif inovement beyond a vaguely sentimental argument that it was only right ttie modern Athene should leud h helping hand to the American school in the aiKjient Athens, and the assertion that the University of Michigan hal beoome a purty t the support of nn institution in the Giecian capital designed for the moro thorough Instructiou of the Greuk Clil-sio. The disbursement of the University funds is as lunch a public tru-t as, for instance, the disbursement of the tunds for public printing or sanitary purposes, and t he people (iemand that strk-t economy shall be there practlced in a manner consistent wlth the attainment of the end proposed. But the American school at Alhinshas nothing to do with the University of Michigan. To begin with, it is a purely special school. If there is a warmnt for contributing to an Atheniun appendix to Michigan's University for thoruiighness' snke, why not the more so is there rea.-on for sustaininji appendices at Home and in Syrla bik) France and Spain, thac thoroughness in Romin, llrbrew, Freiich and Spauish cluts:cmay be likcwiM' usurad? The University of Michigan was not estabüshed, nor is t supporteil, to furnish other tlia.ii u practieally Intellectual education free. Medicine and the collateral branches, soince and its ;ollaterils, with literature and law, are all practically intellectual, and it beconies the Interest of the state to fouter a devotion to lUldlttfl which will in turn repay it by their practical applieatlon But the specialist should be made to pay for his leurning. It is of no valué to the state that a man lu)uld be versed in the purely intellectual arts. His is the glory and hi the gain alone. He should be made to pay for ils attainment. Aside from all this, the school to which the regents have resolved to contritmtc is a contessed failure. Last year Dut eight students took advautage of its courses, and the lirst annual report shows not a single name from Michigan, while the lirst director Informa his patrons with candor that their method of glvin professors foreijfn vacatlons of a year is not a 8uccess. Why, then, should the regents coutribute to the support of an institution by payiug its director when it lies beyond their purview altogether to begin with, is not patrouized by Michigan hUidents, and Is at best an expensive experiment ¦ It may do weil enough for the senates of Harvard and Yale and othcr prominent colleges to contribute to tin; expenses of the experiment. They are managing a private trust, in a sense. But Michigan Uuiverslty is a public truit, and as such should be aiiniini-tercd. Now is the time to cnll attention bo and correct the enor, which may prove the entering wedge for an interminable list of similar extraneous enterprises.

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Ann Arbor Courier
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