The Gymnasium

■ïoiho Honorable Board of Regenta of the duiver iity of Michigan: Gentlemen ''lm undersigned, mem■ bors of 1Iio s veral faculties of the uni■ vi'i-sityof Michigan, beg leave to pres■ ciii to you Ih ■ following memorial: ■ On the 22d of September 1869, vmir ■ honorable body appointed a committee ■representing tne severa! faculties then i"' isi Lng in i ii" universitj . uu h instruc■ lions to examine and report to the board ■ in regard to the propriety of establish■ m agvmnadum in connection with ■ the university. That committee con■ f.isied of the following persons: .M C ■ Tyler, Edward Olney, C. L. Ford, and ■ T. M. Cooley. Al the ncxi. meeting of ■ the board tliis committee presented an ■ elabórate reporl apon the subject pro■ ]ios(!.i to them, whinti report was spread I upon the records of the board of regenta ■ and ordered priuted. The report was ■ atrongly in favor of the establishment lol' a university gymnasium, but in con■ aequence of the lack of funds the board I was únanle to carry out tbe recom Idation of the commil teè, alt! ;h al ■ ilic meeling aforesaid an informalexI pression was milde in favor of the plan. IForllvears this subject has been ín labeyance here, bo far as any official acItion is eoncerned. Meantime the eviI dence of the ieedof i -, mnasium lias I been multiplying. and wühin the past I the studente havo taken biold lof the matter witli ri'eat earnestness I and by their bwn efforts have alreaJy I raised. a f und of nearlj $1,200 for the I purpose and are stil! at work to increase Ithatfund. All moneys raised by the Istndents for this purpose are handed lover to a board of trustees and by them I to delivered to the board of n Iwhenever the regent maybe readyto Iproceedto thee uct ion ofagymnasium: Ibut it is olivi .il i that without a special I appropriation i wil! be naanj yearsbeI Core the studie it's fund can be made IJargeenoufrl] to pr icureasuitablebuildmg. We therefore begleave to auggest I to your honorable body thal pei'haps it maj now be a s litable time Por measiMcs to be tak í i to assist the students Ifa'thöir earnesl and honoable endeavor; and that, if it s'ionld not be incompatible ífith other impnrNnt plana under leration, it might be wel] to inan appi-opriationfora gymnasium among the reqnests whicL you raay to lay before the nexi legislature Elenry S. Krui -e. Actinp President. C. K. Adams, Dean of Faculty of IJterature. Scie ire and Arts. A. B. Palmer, Dean of Facuïty of ( Medicine and Sn ■■ery. ■ T. M. Cooley, Deaii of Law Facultv i Aliieri B. Prescott, Dean of Faculiy of School of Pharmacj . E, C. Franklin, Dean of Faculty of ' Uomeopathy. i .1. Tait, Öean of Faculty of Denla] i College, !