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A Wholesome Talk

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
May
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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The following very calm and excellent statement of the situation at Lansing with reference to the attitude of the legislatura toward the Uuiversity, is taken from the last issue of the Tecuinseh News. It is a very sensible and able article : "In this time of financial depression ■svell directed economy on the part of the legislature is to be coinrnended, but it. is unfortunate that the solons at sing should have selected the state Umversity as the first victim of the pohcy of retrenchment. Possibly the amount first proposed in the bill was too high, but even after it was cut down considerably more than half, so as to include only Buch items as seemed tothe friends of " the measure to be iinperatively ecessaryto the needs of the instituon, there was fouiid a sufficient number of members to at least temporarily ipfPiit the bill and it looks now as if the niversity would have to get along as est it may without a cent of appropriaion asidefromitsordinary revenues, for he next two years. It may be ttaat the majority of the citizens of Michigan will be satisfled to see a policy pursued toward our greatest public institution that wiU cripple itor retard its wonder ful career of usefulness. It costs som e thing to maintain it and perhaps the peoplö who own ït are getting ureu ui paying the bill for its support. If so, thóse members of the legislatura who are fightingthe university apprópriation are making themselves solid with their constituents. Bat we are umvilling to believe that the ,people o Michigan would turn against an inst tution that has been so great an bono to the state. The university of Mich gan ranke among the six greatest RRhools of learning in the United States. Harvard, Yate, Columbia, Cornell, Michigan and Chicago are the leadiiig half dozen colleges of the country, and Michigan is unique ainong the six because she has accomplished so much without a tithe of the financia! support which the rernaming flve enjoy. Over 25,000 students have received don within lier walls and nearly halt ot these have graduated. Who shall estímate in dollars and cents the influence for Rood, material, intellectual and moral, wbich this army of graduates has exerted and isstill exerting, not only in Michigan, but tliroughout the whole country? President Angelí recently showed in a speech before the legislativa visitors to the university, that the institutio.ii has cost the state an average of about $50,000 a year since its foundation- surely a very snaall sum to be laid upon tvvo and a quarter lion of people, n proportion to the resul ts achieved ! Butthe cost of keeping a great university abreast of the times has greatly increased during the last twenty-five years, and if the great institution of higher learniog that crowns the eduoational system of the state and makes the name of Michigan lamous wherever learning is appreciated throughout the world, is to maintain its proud place, it mustbe generously dealt with. Otherwise it will degenerate to the second rank and the experiment of a great university maintained by the state will prove a failure. We don't believe the people of Michigan are ready to sanction such a backward step."

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier