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 7, Columbia 27, Cornell 22, Johns Hopkins 21, Pennsylvania 31, Princetoj; 
 S.^Yale 11, Wisconsin 20, Michigan 1. Those Fellowships rank all the Way 
 from th^grant of tuition and fees to $800 in value. Both of these obstacles, 
 of course, Swing from the same general cause, that is, lack of adequate funds 
 with which to^evelop the graduate school. The practical question is one 
 of money. 
 
 How strongly 'Fellowships tell on the graduate school/fs well known to 
 educators. In 1890 sixsof our competing institutions, Columbia, Pennsylva- 
 nia, Cornell, Harvard, Y<u\and Wisconsin, counted/me graduate student in 
 seven, Michigan counted one lhslwenty ; in 1897 those institutions counted one 
 in four, Michigan one in nineteem 1 
 
 On the broad question involved>\tha> / fs, the financial question, the Ad- 
 ministrative Council is not called uponSq offer views or remarks. It does, 
 however, beg leave to press upon vour honorable body the earnest, and if pos- 
 sible, early, consideration of the<subject of Fellowships. The Council believes 
 that, relatively, the University is losing ground^qwing to the lack of these 
 familiar inducements jfeo advanced study. Its convifction on this point is so 
 strong that it wouj^in its own opinion, be derelict in dufcv if it did not lay the 
 subject before you with the note of earnest conviction. TnesCouncil is aware 
 that, from time to time, Fellowships have engaged your attention ; but it now 
 respectfully raises the question whether the time has not fully cohje to con- 
 sider/the whole subject thoroughly, in all its bearings, with a view, if possible, 
 of discovering means of early, if only partial, relief. 
 
 PROFESSOR TEN BROOK. 
 
 Professor Ten Brook (of whose death brief mention was made in the 
 last number of the Alumnus) was the last surviving member of what may be 
 regarded as the original Faculty of the University of Michigan. The valu- 
 able service which he rendered to the cause of education and religion makes 
 it eminently proper that a somewhat extended notice of his life and services 
 should appear in the Michigan Alumnus. 
 
 Andrew Ten Brook was born in Elmira, N. Y., Sept. 21, 1814. As his 
 name indicates, he was of Dutch ancestry. He has said that his father contin- 
 ued to speak the Dutch language, more or less, during his life. His grand- 
 father was reduced from competence to poverty by the depreciation of Con- 
 tinental money. The young man's desire for a liberal education enabled him 
 
156 Professor Ten Brook. [January, 
 
 to surmount the obstacles which poverty placed in his way, so that after six 
 years of study, at what was then known as the Hamilton Literary and Theo- 
 logical Institution, he graduated from the Collegiate Department in 1839 > an< ^ 
 two years after, from the Theological Department. In October following bis 
 graduation he was ordained pastor of the First Baptist Church of Detroit. 
 He occupied this position three years, during which time he also edited the 
 Michigan Christian Herald, the organ of the Baptist denomination in Mich- 
 igan. 
 
 In September, 1844, he was appointed to the chair of Moral and Intellec- 
 tual Philosophy in the University of Michigan. The other members of the Faculty 
 at this time were Professors Houghton, Williams, Whiting and Sager. He 
 was at this time just thirty years old, and the first graduating class in the Uni- 
 versity came under his instruction. He occupied this chair seven years to the 
 satisfaction of the Regents and the students. These years were years of 
 struggle, even of conflict, in the history of the University. 
 
 In 1 85 1, he resigned his chair and soon after became the editor of the 
 New York Baptist Register, published at Utica, N. Y. In consequence of 
 the union of this paper with the New York Recorder, he left this position, and 
 in 1846, was appointed U. S. consul at Munich in Bavaria. Here he resided 
 with his family till the end of the year 1862, rendering acceptable and import- 
 ant service, and at the same time mastering the German language and making 
 himself familiar with German literature. 
 
 In 1864 he was made librarian of the University, which position he occu- 
 pied till 1877. During his residence in Ann Arbor Professor Ten Brook 
 rendered much acceptable service to the various churches as a pulpit supply, 
 and several times served the Baptist church as acting pastor for months in 
 succession, almost without compensation. Since 1877 he has occupied no 
 public position except as a temporary pastor, but has given himself chiefly to 
 literary work. He has published an octavo volume entitled State Universities 
 and the University of Michigan, which the North American Review pro- 
 nounced "a substantial contribution to the history of higher education in 
 America." He has translated for a New York publishing house, History of 
 the Thirty Years' War, and has written numerous articles on a great variety 
 of subjects, for many public journals and newspapers. It is said that he had 
 completed, just before his death, the MSS. of a work which has been pro- 
 nounced by those who have examined it, one of great value. It is to be hoped 
 that his death will not prevent its publication. 
 
 Professor Ten Brook was twice married. Two sons died just before 
 reaching mature manhood. His only daughter is the wife of A. E. Mudge, 
 
 
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 ANDREW TEN BROOK. 
 
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1900.] Professor Ten Brook. 157 
 
 a successful lawyer living in Brooklyn, N. Y., an alumnus of the University 
 of Michigan of 1866. 
 
 Until within a year past, Professor Ten Brook retained, to an unusual 
 degree, both his physical and mental vigor; but during the last year of his 
 life he suffered from illness and the infirmities of age. He had just com- 
 pleted arrangements for making his home at a sanitarium in Detroit, and had 
 scarce entered it, when, perhaps in consequence of over-exertion in removing, 
 his strength failed and he passed away. 
 
 Professor Ten Brook was a man of wide and varied learning. His 
 knowledge, on a great variety of subjects was remarkably accurate. As a 
 writer his style was distinguished for clearness, chasteness and simplicity. 
 He could not write a slovenly or extravagant or obscure sentence. He was 
 eminently fair-minded, — little swayed by prejudice, — just and discreet in his 
 judgements of men and things. His convictions on moral and religious and 
 political subjects were the result of careful study and independent thinking, 
 and were therefore held firmly, but without bigotry or censoriousness towards 
 those who differed from him. While thoroughly loyal to the denomination 
 to which all his life he belonged, he had the largest charity towards Chris- 
 tians of other faiths. In recent years he was much interested in humanitarian 
 work; he wis instrumental in the organization of the Humane Society, and 
 he did much to promote the spirit of kindness to animals in the children of 
 the public schools, being chairman of the educational committee of the Society. 
 All who have been on intimate terms with him, have remarked, during his 
 last years, a manifest ripening of the Christian graces of patient cheerfulness 
 under trial and disappointment, of kindly charity towards others, and of un- 
 o t uestioning faith and hope in reference to the future life. 
 
 N. S. Burton. 
 
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 Some Editorial Comment 8. 
 
 [January, 
 
 SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS. 
 
 WithVhe appointment last summer of 
 ProfessoX A. S. Whitney to the junior 
 chair of pedagogy the University has 
 taken a further step in specialization. 
 The major p\>rtion of Professor Whit- 
 ney's duties consists in the examination 
 of high schools to determine their fitness 
 for the University's diploma list. This 
 work, done formerly by the various pro- 
 fessors, has been growing in bulk and 
 likewise in the degreevof knowledge re- 
 quired for its most successful accom- 
 plishment. There has been an increas- 
 ing feeling in the University that it 
 could be better done by a specialist thati 
 by others, and that at the \ame time 
 there would be economy is taking the 
 burden from the shoulders of melt whose 
 own work demanded all the atrnition 
 they could give it. The questionNwas 
 discussed during the course of last year, 
 and the Regents made the appointmer 
 in June. 
 
 The root idea was to secure an exam- 
 iner for high schools, not to give an ad- 
 ditional instructor to the department of 
 pedagogy. Professor Whitney's work 
 was felt to be allied most closely to the/ 
 work of that department, and for thi 
 reason his title was fixed as it is. Dur- 
 ing the present semester, however/ he 
 offers two courses in the department, one 
 of two hours and one of one hour. But 
 in the second semester his timar will be 
 fully occupied in his duties as/examiner. 
 Yet even with this work, ip is not in- 
 tended that no examining sfaall be done 
 by the other professors/as individual 
 cases will arise from time to time where 
 they can serve to advantage. 
 
 Professor Whitney/brings to the work 
 not only a mind, hut a training, which 
 fits him for his d/ties. He is a grad- 
 uate of the University, has been super- 
 intendent of some of the best schools in 
 Michigan, ana has supplemented this 
 training witty a year's study in Germany. 
 
 In its aims: to bring the University 
 into closer touch with the schools of the 
 state; to remedy certain weaknesses in 
 
 the operation of the diploma system ; and 
 to assist especially the smaller and less 
 vigorous schools of the state by helpful 
 suggestion, this plan must me/t with the 
 approval of educators everywhere. 
 * * * / 
 
 The honor of the 'Va/sity football 
 "M" has been granted to the thirteen men 
 who took part in the final game on 
 Thanksgiving day. Considerable ad- 
 verse comment has been made by the 
 students over the fact that certain men 
 who did not take part in this game but 
 who were in several of the more impor- 
 tant earlier games, are thus denied the 
 letter. In defense of the justice of the 
 •ward it is pointed out that it was made 
 apon the unanimous recommendation of 
 a committee of which the captains of the 
 three University teams formed the ma- 
 jority; it was likewise made with the ap- 
 proval/of the coaches and the graduate 
 director. The chief lesson to be drawn 
 Tom the criticisms upon the awards of 
 sVeaters this year and last, is that some 
 tern should be settled upon for their 
 distribution. The men who wear the "M" 
 this y\ar were not chosen by the same 
 authorities who selected the wearers last 
 year, norVwas the test applied in the 
 choice the Same. Whichever way is best, 
 this vacillating policy, even though it 
 may be vacillation in appearance only, 
 is hurtful. If \ test of participation in 
 certain games isMo determine the mat- 
 ter, these games should be of relatively 
 equal importance each year. If on the 
 other hand, the men are to be selected by 
 some officer or set of qfficers with a cer- 
 tain degree of arbitrariness, it should be 
 known at the beginningXof the season 
 who this officer or these Yfficers are to 
 be. When once it is determined by 
 whom it is best that the selection should 
 be made, there should be no change 
 from year to year. A small committee, 
 composed of those officers whoSe posi- 
 tions and whose ability fit them ror the 
 task, with absolute authority to exercise 
 its own discretion, appears to the Alum- 
 
[Burton, N S ] 
 
 Professor Ten Brook. (In The Michigan alumnus. 
 Ann Arbor, 1900. 25£ cm . vol. vi, p. 155-157. port.) 
 
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