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The following letter written by President Angelí to Senator Doran, containe considerable information about the University that should be thoroughly circulated among the people : Asm Arbok, April 4, 1891. My Dear Senator: - I must guess at the pointe un whieh your colleagues ! may need information. 1. One point un whicb 1 found some were uninformed is that the United stütcs L'iivc tu Michigan in 1804 one townshipof land and in ISl'i; another for the endowment of a university. These lande tlie state sold (many of them at a ruitiou.s sucrifice) and put the money into its treasurv and pledged itself in perpetuity to pay 7 per cent on the proceeds. Su that the United States fund, yielding aboat f38,600 annually, is reallv our only endowment. Tuis forms an equitable claim for fair and generous treatment of students from all parta oí the Union. 2. I found that sume do know that at present there is a large disurimination : in feps in favor of Michigan studente and against non-residents. The fees are as follows : IX I.ITEIÏAKY DEPABTMEKT. First year, Michigan student ?30 ! (Being jiu matrlculatlon, $20 aunnal.) Each subsequent year '-ii Ktrst year, uon-resident -r- E ifli subsequent year .. '■' ($25 matriculation, $30 annual.) IN PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS. Pirst year, Michigan studente ... 85 i.iii matriculation, ti5 annual.) Each subsequent year '2 First year, non-resident students w) ($L and $86.) Each subsequent year :" 3. The total fees from non-residents, who constitute 52 per cent of all (1,258 out of 2,420,) are about $60,000- twice as much as tliose from Michigan residente, whèeh are about $30,000. Now, if all the non-resident students were exclnded and we tanght only the Michigan students, we COuld not iiiminian the animal expenses by more than f15,000. Therefore, in this way the non-residents profit us $45,000. The reason of this is that in the professional schools, wben the proportion of non-residents is greatest, the instruction is given mainly by lecture, and it costs no more to lecture to 300 than 100. And in the literary department, where the expense is most mcreased by increase of members, the additional teachers required are inainly in the lower classes, which are largely taught by instructora whose salaries are sniall. In every department hut the law the expenses are greater than the fees. Uut. in the law, where the expenses for salaries are about $12,000, the fees amoont to about $25,000. The fees of the nonresident students alone in that department amount to $20,500, or $8,500 more than the salaries. 4. We have twice raised the fees in the last lö yeara. In 1881 we did so, and as is show n in the report for 1SS7 (which I send yon) pp. 15-1S', it took i us three years to get as much money from non-resident students as we had received before, and it took us six years to regain the attendance. AVhile it may be judicioüs in view of the feeling in the matter to try raising them again, I ara confident that for a time we should lose both studeuts and income. 5. It should be remembered that the education of the Michigan students is worth much more by reason of the presence of students from all parts of the country. The mingling with them is itself an educatiou in many respects more valuable than the instruction in the clasaroom. (. Many of the most valuable men in the state (Judge Grant for instance) have been brought here as students by the cheap rates for education, and have remained to bless the state. 7. The utmost economy - unknown to other great universities - is praeticed here. Our current expenses are about $200,000. Harvard, with fewer students, spends from $(500,000 to $7(X),000. Cornell with about half our number spends half as much again. Vale spends j siderablv more than we. 8. If Bafctone's theorythat the l'niversify should be self-supporting were carried out, we could not have a college nor public school in the land. All C08t more than the fee. Yours trulv,