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Donation To The University

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
October
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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Hon. lliuhard Flutcher, of Boston, Mass., has, through C. I. Walker, Esq., expressed his dütormination to present to the Law Department of the Univer sity of Michigan, his Law Library, consisting of about 750 volumes. ït is to be seut on at an early day, and will be deposited in cases by itself, and kept distiuct trom the general law library. Judge Fletcher is a nativa of Cavendish ; he graduatcd at DartmoiHh, iu 1806, and at an early day removed to Boston, where he becume a worthy compeer and personal friend of Daniel Webster, and acquired great eminence as a learned and ablo lawyer, and a conscientious, upright man. He was eleoted to Congress from Boston in 1837, and served one term, but having no taste for political ufe, declined a re-election. He was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court oí Massaehusetts in 1848, and af ter several years of distinguished service in that position, he resigned beeause o: ill healih. Since his resignation he has lived mo-itly in retirement, but has taken a doep interest in all the great questions of the day, aud especially those conneetcd with iuternatioual law, during oui recent struggle, and moro than one distinguished writer has sought and received the aid of his thonght and lbarning upon this subject. We hail this liberal donation from one not a resident of this State as the commenccment of a nevv era in the hwtory of our noble University. Deriving its funds from the public, individuáis have not to any extent made it an objoat of their bouuty. But the time has fully come when, if it is to expand with expanding wants, it must receive liberal aid from private citizens. Let its libraries grow under the fostering bouuty of the lovers of learning. Let men oí wealth link their names with its history by their mumfieent donations. It is by such dooations that the great universities of the Old World and the East have been endowed and built up, and by such, and sueh alone, cao the usefulness and pre-eminenee of our own university be fully

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Michigan Argus