Report Of President Frieze

The annual report of President Frieze wa submitted to the board of regenta last week and was an unusually interereating and able document, embodying a statement of the work done in all the departmenta during tho pas year, and advocating certain charges and im provementa of an important nature. As Pres dent Frieze remarked, itwould doubtlesa have been extremely gratifying to Presipent Angel to have preaented in peraon tho report for the year, which haa been by far the most proa peroua in the history of the univeraity. The change in the faculties during the year worc only few, and consisted of the appoint ment of ex-Gov. Felch aa Tappan professor o law, the resignation of Dr. H. F. Lyster, who was appointed to take Dr. Palmer'a place while the latter waa absent in Europe, but who re signed before tho opening of the semester, anc the temporary ppointment of Prof. G. S. Mor ris to the chair of modern languages during the absence of Prof. Walter for the first semeator. Four hundred and ten dogrees on cxamination and four honorary degree were con forree duririg the year as follows: Pharmaceutical chemist, 24 ; Mining Engineer, 3 ; Civil Engineer, 4 ; Bachelor of Letters, 3 ; of Science, 4; of Philosophy, 16; of Arta, 29; Maater of Philosophy, 2 ; of Arts, 7 ; Doctor of Philosophy, 1; of Medicine (departmentof medicine and surgery), 91; Bachelor of Law, 175; Doctor of Medicine (homeopathie), 19; Doctor of Dontal Surgery, 34; total, 410. Honorary -Maater of Arts, 2 ; Doctor of Philosophy, 1 ; Doctors of Laws, 1 ; total, 4. The total number of studeuts was 1,430, as follows : Literary, 448 ; medicine and surgery, 353; law, 395; poarmacy, 81 ; homeopathie, 78, and dental surgery, 83 ; the total being 54 larger than that of last year. Dr. Fneze discusses at length tho question of the relative standing in the schools and the university of the classics and science, and shows concluaively that the complaint sometimes made that too miich time is spent on the ormer, is unfounded. Of thel6yeara which he estimates to be the average time spent by a Michigan boy or girl, in passing through tho primary school, the high school and tho university, the candidato for the degroe of B. S , girls two per cent of that time to Latin, and none to Greek; tho candidale for B. L., Latín, give ten per cent, or a little over a year and a half in sixteen, to Latiu; the candidato for B. L., (English) no time whatever to Latín or Greek, and the candidate for B. A. gives 22 por cent or a little more than three years in sixteeu to classieal studies, wilh the privilege of adding more ol thia kind of study if he prefers. President Frieze refers with satisfaction to the diploma system as binding together the schools of the State and the university and making the former the part of an actual organism, and our State system no longer exiets merely on paper. Thore are now 1 0 "diploma" schools. He alao advocates the advancoment of the literary department from the condition, it now occupiea in common with the other American colleges, (of a Germán gymnasium or French lyceum) to that of a genuine university department of lettera and philosophy. Our faculty ahould ceaae as soon as poasible to expend all theirtime and strength on that which ought to be the work of the high school, thua eompelling our more ambitious students to resort, to foreign countries to complete their education. Iq the attendance of women there was a slight increase over that of the previou9 year, while the proportion to the whole nuniber ot students was less. There were in the Hterary department, 81 ; dopartment oí medicine and surgery, 43 ; law, 1 ; homeopathie college, 8 ; school of pharmacy, 2 ; dental college, 2 ; total, 138. Ffty-nineof the literary department were candidatos for degrees as follows: Bachelor of letters, 7 ; of scienco, 3 ; of letters (Latin), 21 ; of arts, 28. There were twenty-two pursuing select studies. Of the 1,430 studeats in attendance, 643 were from Michigan, and of tliis number 251 were in the literary department. Thirty-five of the States were representod, and there are also students from Kngland, Prussia, Japan Burmah, Hawaii, the Bermudas, and the Provinces of Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick. The fees for matriculation and other purposes received from the 787 students, outsideof the State, amounted to about $30,000. The attendance in all the professional schools was increased except in that of the law, which remained about the same and the work of the various departments was in every way satisfactory. Medical education has been much advanced by means of the amphitheatres and hospitala ; the appointment of exGov. Felch in the law department has added greatly to its efficiency, espëcially by affording junior students an opportunity for daily class recitations. The school of pharmacy has secured a position at least as high as that of the best schools in the country. The dental school is steadily growing and its good service to the important profession whiah it represents is a'.ready widely appreciated. The pressing need of a new library building is forcibly urged, and the importance of a gymnasium, to the physical education of our students is presented in a manner which will be gratifying to the latter.