Those Terrible Foreign Students

Kruin the annual report oi i'resiueiii Anuell to tlie Board of Regenta, wbich vas presented to tliat body laat Thursday eveniug, we givo the followin;,' mcresliug portlou: "Discus8ions in tbc' legislatura and in lie public press bave called attcntion if resli to the question wlictlier the fees of non-resident students ought to be ralred. The board bas frequently considered this subject and bas increascd Ibcm trom time to time. In my annual report tor 1885 I set forth in detail the consequences of the increase wbich bad been made in the fees in 1881. I may ¦epeat here the flirurwi theu siven and ndd the statictics for the last year. ATTKNDANCE OF STUDENTS. From Non-RoR, ,; Mielan. Ment, Ttfgj. ;:;;::::"-:Ea - ;!:.i!:::.:::.::::?Sl 3 üB Old fees. tlucreiised feen. The fees paid uy resident sludents In 1881-83 kmouDted to $21,100. In 1884-5 the rate havinj; for thrce yc.irs been Inoreued, tbc suni received from theiii was only (81,800. The niunber of non-resident students in 1881-2 lias nol been rcacliod apain, altlioub the totnl attendance bas Deen greater during the DMtyear. Tbat claw of studeuts numbered sixty-ñve less last year tlian it did live year before. The followlnf! tabular statement of stilden ts' fees for the past year is instructivo in this eonnection. It comprises the matrieiilation and annual fees alone, hut omits the laboratory and gradnation fees. These two last are divided relalively between resident and non-resident students in substantinlly the ssiiie proportlons as the two former kinds of fees: student's fkes. Tfaete íUUemenU make it very elear ttuit we may easily iacresM the tees of non-resident sludents so r apidly U to Incur not only a seiious loss in attendance, but Hii actual pecunlury loss. As a matter of fiict, wherever instruction is ei ven by kcluies, as it Is miilnly in the professional schools and to a considerable extent In the Llterury Department, the instruction of the non-resident studcuts adds Ule er noUilng to tlie expense re(piind for the insUuetion of the Michigan stndenls alone. It is well known ilial almost without exception lor manj years the ft es trom tlie non-resident students in the Law School have more tlian met the entire cost of Inetructlon In the scliool. Take the ögnres in that school for the last year as au Illmtratlon. The Ices of the non-resident law students uiKninted to f11,500, and the total expenditure for salaries ot instructora in the Law Depaltnient was only $10,000. It will be observed also that in tlie Department of Medicine and Surgery the lees paid by the non-resident students iimounted to nearly twice as mueh as those of the Michigan student-', in the Law Dcpartment nearly four times as inurli and in the wliole University HTenty-live per cent. more. It is doubtful whether the total expense of giving as good an educalion as we now give would be diminished by f 10,000 a year if all the non-resident students were exeluded nnd the present number of Michigan students were in attendance. Since the fecs received trom them last year were $34 980, It is clear that on the present seale of tees they are a source of proiit rather than oss to the treasury. Nor in considering this subject can we ever permit ourselves to forget that' our original uud CuWl ; ermanent eniowment was the gift uf the United States, and th.it thercfora there rests on ut the obli gation to treat generously students trota all parts of the Union. Kurthermore tlie presence of students f rom other States tliau our owu contributes very greatly to the reputation of the University and awakens I pride in it among our own citi.ens, and soattracts to its halls many Michigan students wlio would otherwise go elsewhere for their education. This cosmopoütan life which the presence ol students froin all parts of the world ves to the University is of inestimable valué to the Michigan student, by giving hini an acquaintance with mea of so maiiy varieties of early training. Iu this mierocasm he acquires a breadth of culture and fullnet-s ol experience which are of the greatest service in preparing hiin for hls subseiiuent career, If, unhappily, a policy should bc adopted whieh should deprive us of the presence of nonresi ilent student-! the University would then speedlly become a local school with a narrow reputation and i reatricted iutlueuce. It may be thouglit, it bas sometimes been eaid, that we do tiot charge the nonrualdenta as mucli as other institutions, and iherefore tliat we may well raise onr fees. On examination of the' facte it will be found that we now charge higher fees than other State Universilles. Hearing in niind that our charges to nonresidents are as follows: Literary Depaitnient, first year $55, each subsequent year, S'.i'i. Let us notice the charges at some other Western universilles: Ohio State Universlty, $15 a year; Indiana State University, $15 a year; lowa State University (literary department) $25 a year; lowa State University (professional department), $38 to $5Ü first year; lowa State University (professional department) $33 to $45 second year; Wisconsln State University (literary dcparinent), $18 a year; Wiscoii8in State University (law department) $50 lirst year; Wisconsin State Univeisity (law department), $25 second year; Nebraska State University (all depai tments) tuition free; California State University (literary and law), tuition free; Minnesota State University (all departinents), $5 a year; Kangas State University (literary and law), $10 a year; Illinois State University (literary), $45 a year. It will be readily seen Uut in most of the above institutiong the fees are materially Miialler than ours. Any important lucrease in our charges must tenil to pievi-nl -I uili nt.s froni most of the state In whicli they are establislied frotn coming to na. But we are told that whatever nre the facts in the West, thu fees in the Easti-rn Colleges are ranch largar than ours. Let M notice what re the fees in a few representative institutions. Cornell University, $75 a year; Williams College, $'M a year; Brown University, $100 a yeai ; Amhfi.st College. $110 a year; Yale College, literary, $12ö a year; Vale CuUege, law, $100 a year; Yale College, medical, $125 u year; Harvard Univeisity, literary, $150 a y?ai ¦; Harvard Iniversity, law, $150 a year; Harvard Uuiversity, medical, $200 a year. . These charges are indeed larger than ours. lint It must be remen. bered that all these institution.s and the EMtern colleges generally, have fond for the pecuniary MSbUllOe of students and thal in ench of them a large proportioD of the students receive enough to pay for their tuition and in some cases more than that, while we have no provisiou for reniittiug the fees of any student. Ooroell University, for instance, has :12 State lObolarthlM jriving free tuitiou to the holders, nine University s-cholaiHliips yielding $200 a year, eight tellowship? for graduales yielding $400 a year and tuition is tree to gradúate stulents. Williams College has funds which enable it to give to each of titteen Of twenty men $150 a year, to eacli nf twelve more, $105 a year, to each of eiglit nore $120 a year, and to lifty or gixly more the tuilion, $90 a year. About 100 itndenta of the entire number, 270, niore hun one-third of al!, nrc llius allled. Mtxt ussislanee is ulso f ven in cerlain :ich Brown iiiivcisit)' luis i luixl r ver $152,000, tbc proceeJsof whlcli siq 'iwn i" various ways n aid nf studenK i]iic!t College dtstribütei $3,000 1 year n fcholarthlpi", and over $J,60tl u year In ri.cs. Vale Unlveialty aids 130 stuücnU innually with (Cliolarefilps yicldhij: from G0 to $200, aiul twcnty-live otlicr stuIcnte with scholarships or fellowalitpi conferrcd for proflclency in itudloi mul 'loldlDg eaeh trom $:( lo $000, and dis ribules $1,000 annually in pri.os. lluivard University now distribuir lo sludents $(f,000 a year, a sum larger tban onr total receipts lrom students. The uithorities ot' that Instltutlon nntiounce olllcially tliat no young man of marked abllity and good diameter nevd stay away from Harvard on account of povcrty. Erery luch peraon who wishes to study, ilion. h usured ihat he ehall receive the aid needed to entibie blm to complete his coursi'. Il will he tevv trom these facls that it Ie uttcrly misleildlDg to infer from the ptiblishcd rales ' tuiiion in the Eastern college that they are recciving twiec or thrlce as miicli as we "rom their siudenls liccanse Unir nominal toe are twlce or thlice as llfge as oiirs. [t may well be that a Btudwil wliii recelvcs i he locóme from foine of the ¦cholarshlps or fellowibipj In one of those colleges s subjected to less expense than the average undergr.iduate heie. Upon con8ideraüon of all the facls I think wa must concliide that, if we have regard to the lew Cliarged liy other colli-ges and universitics or lo our muí experlenoe la nltlng thc teet of Don-retldent ftudents, we cinnot safcly a.sk more at present of our non-resident studente KAKMEKn' C'llll.DUKN RECETO Til i: IIBNEt'IT. It is sometimos said that the University is the school fur the rieh rather' than of people in moderate circnmstatices. It is occasionally spoken of taiintingly by tllOM not familiar wilh ils interior Ufe as "aristocratie." I made an effort last iiutuinn to frather statistics concernios the pursiits of thc parents of our students. 1 sent a circular to each 'student aiklng him to I n forro me hal was the OCeupation of his father. I reccived antwers Irom l.IOü persons. Of the puisuits most largely repretented I give tlie h'trurcs as fultowi: Farmers, 50'2; incrclmnts (the tcun is nsed in the West to describe retall trsdesmen as well ns Wholesale de-der?), 171 ; lawyerx (including ifj judges), 93; nhysicians, s;; nianiilacluieif, 52; mi chati Íes, 56; elergymen. Til; real estáte and ínsmance agents, ül!; banUcis and brokers, 28; teachers, 20; lambermen, "24; contractois and builders, 17; diuggiats and cheinisls, 1G; tailois, 1"; dealen In live stock, ii; mlllers, II; commercial envelen, 12; dentista 12; commmon laborers, s. Most persons will be nrprited to see how greatly the nomber ol farmers' children exceeds every other class. If we assume that the farmers gain thcir living by manual toil, and add to tUem the other classi s who uiKjuestionably su]poit thpmselves by physieal labor, I estímate that the fathers of forty live per cent, of I lie students who reported may properly be ciiHsiderel as t Ii lis gainlog their livelihood. Of Coorse the classilication thus obtalned is only npproxlmateljr correct. Borne of the farmers probably are nol lubjected to strenuous toil; on the other hand, many of those classed as mei eliant-, retail grocerp, for ustance, lead a lite which isphysicaMy as fatlguing and truly as devoted to manual labor M thc Ufe ot' the carpenter. But ccrtainly the figures do show what everyone familiar wiihour studetits kuows to be trtie, that the sous and daughters of the rieh do not forni a very large percentage of the wlmle number; A very large propoition of our undergradimtes have by hard tul] and great self-denial earned the means to rapport Ihcmselves in whole or in Iwrge part while herc. Nit a few contrive lo reiniin hcre only tiy the practico of an ecouomy whith too often injures their hcalth. GOOI) INI'I.l KNCE OP TUK 0HUBCBE& I desire to make erateful mentlon In this repon of the eft'orts which Chrlatlan churches are making 1 ir the spiritual culture of our students. The cburchei in this city have always inanifestcd the warmest interest in the welfare of the students, and have spared no patni to make thla place a home In whlch wholesotne and helpful .-ocia! morul Influí should be cxerted upon the great company of young men and youn wouien who gatherunder our roof. lint recently there have been manifestatious of a vvider and deeper interest In them. I,:neh atcd communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Chureh have erected a liue building to serve as a special religious home for etudents and have proviilel courses of lectures on relifloai topics by eminent meu. The Presbyteii:ms are ¦ukllis [ireparations for occupying, with a similar end in view, a comodious house. whlch a generout woniao has placed al their disposal. There is :ilso good ground to hope that the H'.rts to secure the fondt for the erection and cudou inent of a suitable building tor the BtudenU' Uhristian AttOCtatlOD are mou to bc crowued with success. While we bellere wc ure right in not cotnpelliug the alten - dance of sludentson religious services, we are profoundly appreciative of all tkfl assistanee we receive in furnishing them the means of spiritual culture. RMErrS' PSOCBKDIROS. The regentó have materially slrengthened the medical department and have reorganized t':e instruetion in inalhematics. öince Prof. Olney's dcath the worh has been done by Prol. V. W. Beman, IHlttanl professor, ('. X. .Iones, and one instructor. As nearly all the students were instructed by these thrce men, and manv reniaiutd in theirclasses during the whole fouiyeais, the work becanie very luborious. I'rof. Itemau becanie a f uil professor last spring. Asst. Prof. Jones was yesterday mude a full professor. Two iBMruefon win be nppoiiited al a silary of 9U0Ü eacli, InabSuQ of oue as herctofore. This change will pensil Prof. Jones to give more of his attenlion to the upper ctaiemen, Dr. Heniage Oibbes, of WestmlnsUl college, London, has been appointed professor of pathology. Dr. Qlbbel was i member of the fainous I i i i t i . li ehiWcra commission sent to India. Hls lite work has been Irapurtlilg iustructiou in pathology, and in this he is SUrpaaaed by no seientist in this country. 1 1 e is also an eminent wnter and sees for hunselt a wider field in this country than in Bofland. lic is ii rtgorouj man of itbout ¦)() years, and is recoinmeuded by ihe most eminent English physician. The qwnttoa of removing the clínica] department to Detroit may be regardedas settled. The regenU stemed to bc all ol' one mind that it. would not bc cxpeclicnt to remove the present clinieal part of the medical depirlmcnt to Detroit or to ruaw] lncreasiMg its uselu hcre. They are however, favorable lo the establishment of a po-t irni luale medical couisc in Detroit, providing lor special eliuic.il advantaies for advanced work. as an eiitirelv separate deparlineut of the univcr.-iiy, if tbc cili.cns of Detroit want Mpdl a de paitment established there cnough to provide plenty of tree beds, de., in llarper hospital, and to provide Miitable buildings without expense lo thc regente. Sucli a department shoulil be open onlv to graduatcs ot Wie present medical department or c f' soine rcputable medical college. The establishment . ot siieli a lc partinent is advocated by theentire medical faculty here. Kesolutious coinplimcntary to Prof. Payne were passed and his ïesignation accepted. President Angelí wasgranted leave ol' absence to do bis duty toward the country on the lisheries commission, and Prot. Fric.e, as USItal was made aeting president durinjr President Angcll's aliscnce. The degree ol' 1Í. A. was con ferred on Xellie Uaitli'tt Hairc; tha! ol Ph. B. upon Qentge Edwnrd Palrbairn and M. A. upon Lauru Donnau, tbe sludents having completed tbc work rcquiicd fr the degiees. Dr. OoillHd (corge ol Ann Ailior, was appointed instructor in materia medica n a salary ot .")0(). Kinier ïSanl'ord, 15. S. '87, was ippointed assistant to the profesor of physiology at a s.dary ot $400, viee Dr. lleniv lv. Luin, resi'neil. The resijnation ot Di. David 1". McCiuire, of thc protessorship of ophlhalmology and otology in the honio upalhic medical col lege was accepted, and Dr. O. E. Sterling of Detroit, elected to lili the cliair. F. A. Johnson, M. D., w:s apiíoinml assistant lo tlie chnlra of surerviin! opbthalmology :iud otologj-, vice lt. C. 'l'nylor, M. I)., resigiieil.