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 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
 
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 THE 
 
 QUARTER-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 PRESIDENCY 
 
 OF 
 
 JAMES BURRILL ANGELL, LL.D. 
 
 JUNE 24, 1896 
 
 ANN ARBOR 
 
 PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY 
 1896 
 
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 <bition of ^i 
 
 2%e Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. 
 Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co. 
 
EDITOKIAL COMMITTEE. 
 
 ISAAC N. DEMMON. 
 WILLIAM H. PETTEE. 
 FLOYD R. MECHEM. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 INTRODUCTION 1 
 
 ADDRESSES IN UNIVERSITY HALL 5-32 
 
 Regent Cocker's Address . .... . . . 5 
 
 Address of the University Senate 8 
 
 Resolutions of the State Teachers' Association .... 13 
 
 Response of President Angell ....... 14 
 
 Professor Gayley's Ode ........ 18 
 
 Dean Murray's Address 21 
 
 Mr. Justin Winsor's Address ....... 24 
 
 Professor Clark's Address 24 
 
 President Draper's Address 26 
 
 Commissioner Harris's Address 30 
 
 RESPONSES AT THE DINNER 33-56 
 
 President Angell's Response .33 
 
 Ex-Regent Willard's Response 36 
 
 Mr. Rowland Hazard's Response 42 
 
 Ex-Regent Cutcheon's Response 43 
 
 Mrs. Turner's Response ........ 45 
 
 President Rogers's Response ....... 47 
 
 President Sperry's Response 50 
 
 President Harper's Response 52 
 
 Mr. Dickinson's Response 54 
 
 Professor Wright's Response ....... 55 
 
 Mr. R. M. Wright's Response 55 
 
 CONGRATULATORY LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS .... 57-84 
 
 From President Loudon, University of Toronto . . . .57 
 
 Chancellor Smith, McGill University .... 57 
 
 President Hyde, Bowdoin College 57 
 
 President Buckham, University of Vermont ... 58 
 
 President Carter, Williams College 58 
 
 President Capen, Tufts College 59 
 
 President Seelye, Smith College 59 
 
 President Hall, Clark University 59 
 
vi CONTENTS. 
 
 From President Walker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology . 59 
 
 President Mendenhall, Worcester Polytechnic Institute . 60 
 President Andrews, Brown University . . . .60 
 
 President Dwight, Yale University 61 
 
 President Low, Columbia University 61 
 
 President MacCracken, University of the City of New York 62 
 
 President Taylor, Vassar College ...... 62 
 
 President Patton, Princeton University .... 62 
 
 President Scott, Rutgers College 63 
 
 Provost Harrison, University of Pennsylvania ... 64 
 President and Faculty of Lafayette College . . . .64 
 
 President Drown, The Lehigh University .... 64 
 
 President Gilman, The Johns Hopkins University . . 65 
 
 President Whitman, The Columbian University . . 65 
 
 President and Faculty of the University of North Carolina . 66 
 
 President Canfield, Ohio State University ... 66 
 
 President Schapman, Detroit College 66 
 
 President Kollen, Hope College 67 
 
 President Jesse, University of the State of Missouri . . 67 
 
 Chancellor Chaplin, Washington University ... 67 
 
 President Snow, University of Kansas 68 
 
 President Baker, University of Colorado .... 68 
 President Kellogg, University of California . . . .69 
 
 Governor Rich . .... .... 69 
 
 Ex-Regent Burt 69 
 
 Ex-Regent Grosvenor 70 
 
 Ex-Regent Joy 71 
 
 Ex-Regent Willett 71 
 
 Ex-Governor Alger . 72 
 
 Ex-Senator Palmer 72 
 
 Ex-Minister Lothrop 73 
 
 Judge Swan ......... 73 
 
 Minister Uhl 74 
 
 Bishop Davies 74 
 
 Bishop Gillespie ......... 74 
 
 Bishop Ninde 74 
 
 Rev. Marcus A. Brownson ...... 74 
 
 Rev. Rufus W. Clark 75 
 
 Rev. Wallace Radcliffe . . . . . . -75 
 
 Ex-Prof essor White 76 
 
 Ex-Professor Tyler -76 
 
 Ex-Professor Arndt 79 
 
 Ex-Professor Gerrish 79 
 
 Superintendent Duffield 79 
 
CONTENTS. vii 
 
 From Mr. Charles W. Dabney 80 
 
 Professor Hart . 80 
 
 Professor Strong 80 
 
 Professor Hoi den 81 
 
 Messrs. Campbell, Hussey, and Colton . . . . .81 
 
 Mr. Edward P. Allen 81 
 
 Professor Bigelow 82 
 
 Mr. B.F. Bower 82 
 
 Professor Brown ......... 82 
 
 Mr. Lawrence C. Hull ....... 83 
 
 Dr. Henry M. Kurd ........ 83 
 
 Professor Senier 84 
 
 Professor Woodward 84 
 
 BOARD OF REGENTS . 85 
 
 UNIVERSITY SENATE 85-87 
 
 GUESTS AT THE DINNER . 88-92 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 ON the 21st of February, 1895, the Board of Regents of the 
 University of Michigan took the first official action in connection 
 with the celebration of President AngelPs quarter-centennial of 
 service as President of the University, by adopting a resolution, sub- 
 mitted by Regent Cocker, in terms as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of three members of the Board of 
 Regents be appointed to confer with a committee of the University 
 Senate to take under consideration the fact that next year is the 
 twenty-fifth anniversary of the appointment of Dr. Angell to the pres- 
 idency of the University ; and that such committee consist of Regents 
 Barbour, Kiefer, and Fletcher. 
 
 The Senate committee of conference was appointed in the month 
 of May following. It consisted of the deans of the several depart- 
 ments of the University, with Professor D'Ooge, Dean of the De- 
 partment of Literature, Science, and the Arts, as chairman. This 
 committee was also empowered to act for the Senate in arranging 
 the details of the celebration, and was given authority to appoint 
 sub-committees for special duties. 
 
 The sub-committees appointed were as follows : 
 
 Committee on Address to the President. Professors D'Ooge, 
 Walter, and Hutchins. 
 
 Committee on Invitations. Regents Barbour and Cocker, and 
 Professors Prescott, Vaughan, Adams, Hudson, and W. B. Hinsdale. 
 
 Committee on Programme. Professors Nancrede, Carhart, and 
 Stanley. 
 
 Committee on Entertainment, Decorations, and Ushers. Pro- 
 fessors Carrow, Greene, Denison, Beman, and Hoff, and Treasurer 
 Soule. 
 
 Committee on Publication. Professors Demmon, Pettee, and 
 Mechem. 
 
 Special invitations were sent in the name of the Board of Regents 
 and the University Senate to presidents of universities and colleges, 
 
2 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 to representatives of alumni associations, to former members of the 
 Board of Regents and the University Senate, and to a large number 
 of persons interested in higher education in Michigan and throughout 
 the country. A general invitation was also extended through the 
 public press to all alumni and friends of the University. 
 
 The celebration was held on Wednesday, June 24, 1896, the day 
 before the Annual Commencement. In the forenoon the public 
 exercises in University Hall consisted of addresses, greetings from 
 other institutions, a Commemorative Ode contributed by Professor 
 Charles Mills Gayley, and music specially written for the occasion 
 by Professor Stanley. Regent Butterfield acted as presiding officer, 
 and felicitously introduced the several speakers in pursuance of the 
 programme here given. 
 
 PROGRAMME. 
 
 CHORUS TRIUMPHALIS. 
 
 March-Fantasia with Chorus. 
 
 Professor Albert A. Stanley. 
 
 PRAYER. 
 
 Rev. Joseph M. Gelston, Class of 1869. 
 
 ADDRESS ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. 
 
 Regent William J. Cocker, Class of 1869. 
 
 ADDRESS OF THE UNIVERSITY SENATE. 
 
 Presented by the Chairman of the Senate Committee, 
 
 Professor Martin L. D'Ooge, Class of 1862. 
 
 RESOLUTIONS OF THE STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. 
 
 Presented by Professor Florus A. Barbour, Class of 1878. 
 
 RESPONSE OF PRESIDENT ANGELL. 
 
 COMMEMORATIVE ODE. 
 
 Written by Professor Charles Mills Gayley, Class of 1878, 
 
 now of the University of California. 
 Music Composed by Professor Stanley. 
 
 GREETINGS FROM BROWN AND PRINCETON UNIVERSITIES. 
 
 Rev. James O. Murray, Dean of Princeton University. 
 
 GREETINGS FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 
 
 Justin Wmsor, Librarian of Harvard University. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 3 
 
 GREETINGS FROM YALE UNIVERSITY. 
 
 Professor John E. Clark, Class of 1856, 
 
 now of the Sheffield Scientific School. 
 
 GREETINGS FROM THE STATE UNIVERSITIES. 
 
 President Andrew S. Draper, of the University of Illinois. 
 
 GREETINGS FROM THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF EDUCATION. 
 
 William T. Harris, U. S. Commissioner of Education. 
 
 CHORUS. " The Strain Upraise." 
 
 Professor Stanley and Members of the Choral Union. 
 
 In the afternoon a dinner was served in the Waterman Gymna- 
 sium, which was attended by the invited guests, and by about four 
 hundred other ladies and gentlemen, mostly alumni of the Univer- 
 sity. Professor D'Ooge presided, and introduced the persons selected 
 to respond to toasts. He also read a number of congratulatory let- 
 ters and telegrams. 
 
 The toasts and the speakers were as follows : 
 
 OUR GUEST. President Angell. 
 
 THE BOARD OF REGENTS THAT CALLED PRESIDENT ANGELL. 
 
 Ex-Regent George Willard. 
 
 AULD LANG SYNE. 
 
 Rowland Hazard, Peace Dale, R. I. 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY AND THE ALUMNI. 
 
 Byron M. Cutcheon, Class of 1861. 
 
 WOMEN IN THE UNIVERSITY. 
 
 Mrs. Madelon Stockwell Turner, Class of 1872. 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE NORTHWEST. 
 
 President Henry Wade Rogers, Class of 1874. 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY AND THE COLLEGES OF MICHIGAN. 
 
 President Willard G. Sperry, of Olivet College. 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. 
 
 President William R. Harper. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT ANGELL MEMORIAL. 
 
 Don M. Dickinson, Law Class of 1867. 
 
4 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 OBERLIN COLLEGE. Professor George F. Wright. 
 
 THE CLASS OF 1871. Mr. Robert M. Wright. 
 
 His Excellency Governor John T. Rich was expected to be pres- 
 ent and to respond to the toast, The University and the State, but he 
 was unavoidably detained. He sent a congratulatory letter which 
 was read at the dinner. 
 
THE ADDRESSES IN UNIVERSITY HALL. 
 
 REGENT COCKER'S ADDRESS. 
 
 WHILE the University is greatly indebted to the State for 
 its generous aid and support, the State is indebted to the Uni- 
 versity for its direct and wholesome influence on the educa- 
 tional system of the State, and for the able men it has trained 
 to promote the varied interests of the commonwealth and to 
 honor its name in State and national affairs. It is, therefore, 
 fitting on this the twenty-fifth anniversary of Dr. Angell's in- 
 auguration as president, that grateful acknowledgment should 
 be made in behalf of the State of its indebtedness to the dis- 
 tinguished teacher who for so many years has devoted himself 
 to its educational interests. 
 
 It is greatly to the credit of the early settlers of Michigan 
 that they took care that " good learning should not perish 
 from among us." They were brave enough to face every dan- 
 ger and wise enough to found a university. While Michigan 
 was still a Territory, and its population numbered only six or 
 seven thousand persons, an act was passed creating a uni- 
 versity. Our first lawgivers were not willing that knowledge 
 should be dependent on the chance charity of generous men 
 of wealth. They established for all time, as far as this State 
 is concerned, the great principle that " the education of the 
 people is a public duty," and that the appropriation of public 
 money for this end is a legitimate public expenditure. They 
 did not propose that learning should be buried in the graves 
 of their forefathers. 
 
 The relation between the State and the University is so 
 close, and the influence of the University on the general wel- 
 fare of the State is so great, that to shape and give proper 
 
6 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 direction to the work of the University is a grave responsi- 
 bility. Few can appreciate the difficulties that the President 
 of a State University has to meet. There are so many and so 
 conflicting views as to the relation of the State to higher edu- 
 cation, so many changes in the governing board, so many local 
 prejudices to satisfy, and so much uncertainty regarding State 
 appropriations, that an institution like our own encounters 
 greater dangers and requires greater wisdom in administration 
 than do other institutions of learning whose policy is largely 
 fixed by tradition, and whose interests are conserved by a rich 
 and powerful body of alumni. To place the University in the 
 front rank of the great schools of learning with their rich en- 
 dowments, to make the State known and respected abroad 
 through its University, and in spite of opposing influences to 
 make it the crowning glory of the State, require the highest 
 wisdom and the rarest skill. All friends of the University 
 gratefully recognize the indebtedness of this institution of 
 learning to the distinguished scholar and teacher who now 
 presides so ably over its interests. 
 
 Not alone as a college president has Dr. Angell won dis- 
 tinction. He is a recognized authority on international law, 
 and his writings and public addresses on the important ques- 
 tions of the hour have justly commanded general attention. 
 The national government, recognizing his exceptional fitness, 
 sent him as Minister Plenipotentiary to China to negotiate 
 a revision of an important treaty, and twice he has been 
 selected by the government of the United States to serve on 
 important commissions. Whether as the representative of 
 the University or of the State or of the national government, 
 he has worthily performed the duties intrusted to his care. 
 The University rejoices in his well-earned distinctions, and 
 the State is justly proud of his achievements. 
 
 Some one has said that " the worth of a college, whether 
 eastern or western, of the Old World or the New, consists not 
 in its history or its material equipment, but in the men who 
 compose its teaching force." This is especially true of this 
 University. Its buildings are unpretentious, its endowments 
 
EXERCISES IN UNIVERSITY HALL. 7 
 
 meagre, its gifts few in number, and its life free from impos- 
 ing ceremonies or impressive distinctions. From humble be- 
 ginnings, and without the associations of a venerable past, it 
 has rapidly grown and developed. Men of broad views and 
 ripe scholarship have served in its faculties and given breadth 
 and character to learning. The University has been richly 
 endowed with great teachers, if not with ample revenues. Its 
 presidents have been gifted and scholarly men who, with rare 
 skill, have shaped its policy. During the twenty-five years of 
 Dr. Angell's administration the University has grown wonder- 
 fully in the number of its students and in the breadth and 
 character of its work. While it has carefully preserved what 
 is of value in the methods and traditions of the older schools 
 of learning, it has kept pace with the pressing demands of 
 modern life. The fact has been duly recognized that a sys- 
 tematic and thorough training in the practical problems of the 
 times in which we live is the prime function of a university. 
 The idea has been rapidly gaining ground that the universities 
 throughout the land should be the great centres for the solu- 
 tion of the increasing number of economic questions that are 
 crowding upon the attention of the people. Unless proper 
 direction is given to the discussion of these perplexing ques- 
 tions, there is danger of rash and hasty conclusions that may 
 involve the country in needless embarrassments or in hopeless 
 confusion. While the study of the classics will always be 
 sought for special lines of work, and for the broad and gener- 
 ous culture which they bring, it is becoming more and more 
 apparent that the student must also be made familiar with 
 those practical problems that enter into the general life and 
 future welfare of the nation. Modern research has revealed 
 so many new and unexpected sources of knowledge, and sug- 
 gested so many different lines of investigation, that the char- 
 acter and whole plan of college training has been undergoing 
 a change. President Eliot, in a recent address, eloquently 
 said that universities are no longer " merely students of the 
 past, meditative observers of the present, or critics, at a safe 
 distance, of the actual struggles and strifes of the working 
 
8 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 world; they are active participants in all the fundamental, 
 progressive work of modern society." 
 
 But it is not for me to describe the changes that have taken 
 place in the courses of study, or to enumerate the additions 
 that have been made to the departments of the University, 
 during the administration of Dr. Angell. His associates in 
 the University Senate will fittingly refer to these. 
 
 To me, Dr. Angell, has been given the pleasant duty of 
 offering the congratulations of the Board of Regents to you, 
 its presiding officer, and of bearing willing testimony to the 
 respect and esteem in which you are held by the several mem- 
 bers of the Board. Of your loyal affection for the University 
 and of your zeal in promoting its varied interests, we have had 
 repeated and abundant proofs. To you the University is 
 largely indebted for its present efficiency, and for the honor- 
 able position it now maintains among the great schools of 
 learning. I know of no greater distinction than wisely to 
 have shaped the destinies of a young and vigorous institution 
 of learning, and of no greater honor than worthily to have 
 earned the confidence of a great body of students. I can wish 
 nothing better for the University than that you, its honored 
 president, may long be spared to direct its affairs and to 
 honor the State with your public services. 
 
 ADDRESS OF THE UNIVERSITY SENATE. 
 
 Mr. President, The Senate of the University brings to 
 you on this auspicious day, which commemorates the comple- 
 tion of your quarter-centennial of service, its tribute of grate- 
 ful recognition and personal esteem. 
 
 We congratulate you and the University on the brilliant 
 record of the past, and express to you our heartiest and best 
 wishes for the future. As we turn back to the day of your 
 inauguration, we recall with deep emotion the glowing words 
 of welcome spoken to you by Dr. Frieze when you were in- 
 ducted into the presidency. " To this work of high promise," 
 said he, "we have called you; leader in this grand educational 
 
EXERCISES IN UNIVERSITY HALL. 9 
 
 enterprise we have made you. We sought one to take the 
 helm who possessed at once the vigor and enthusiasm of youth 
 and the calm prudence and patient waiting of riper years. 
 We sought one of kindly heart and resolute will; of disci- 
 plined mind and cultured taste ; equally at home in the seclu- 
 sion of the study and in the public assembly ; familiar with 
 the institutions of foreign lands as well as our own ; holding 
 loyally to all that is good in the past, yet generously accepting 
 all that is good in the present ; and crowning all these gifts 
 and attainments with the faith and the life of an earnest Chris- 
 tian. . . . We pledge you our fraternal sympathy, our devoted 
 friendship, and our unwavering support." 
 
 Looking back over the years that have since intervened, we 
 mark these words as a prophecy of what we believe has been 
 proved true, and we rejoice to-day at the fulfillment of these 
 bright hopes. 
 
 You came to the University at a critical time, when she 
 stood at the parting of the ways. The days of her infancy 
 were ended. The plans of her great founder, President Tap- 
 pan, were waiting for more complete development. President 
 Haven and President Frieze had guarded well the traditions 
 already established, and sought to incorporate new ideas with 
 her life. But the true university ideal was still but little 
 more than an ideal, toward the realization of which we have 
 been working all these years under your wise and inspiring 
 leadership. 
 
 During this period of twenty-five years, the growth of the 
 University has been truly remarkable. Its resources have been 
 trebled, its students have increased from twelve hundred to 
 three thousand, its staff of instruction has grown more than 
 four times as large, while the scope of its work has been ex- 
 tended by the addition of four new departments, the Schools 
 of Dentistry, of Pharmacy, of Homoeopathy, and of Engineer- 
 ing. Within the department of Literature, Science, and the 
 Arts have been created several important chairs, while nu- 
 merous facilities in the way of laboratories and seminaries and 
 lectureships and apparatus have given added strength and 
 
10 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 value to all courses of instruction. But as you have often 
 taken occasion to remark, Mr. President, bigness is not great- 
 ness, and we find the most satisfactory and convincing proofs 
 of the success of your administration in those less palpable 
 but more valuable improvements and advances that are more 
 spiritual than material, and that constitute most clearly the 
 essential elements of a true university. As such elements we 
 would name, first, the closer articulation of the University 
 with the organic system of State Education, of which it is the 
 head. Under your fostering care, this relation, which was in- 
 stituted just before you came to us, has been made more vital, 
 and has become increasingly fruitful of good both to secondary 
 education and to the University. 
 
 Another element of University progress is the development 
 of the elective system, and the opportunity it affords for 
 advanced work and scientific investigation. Of the beneficial 
 results of this system, in the way of promoting scholarship, 
 and of giving to the life of the University a more mature and 
 earnest spirit, there can be no doubt. 
 
 This catholicity of purpose, this breaking down of the tra- 
 ditional class distinctions, and this wide Lehrfreiheit have not 
 been purchased at the price of solidity and discipline ; and this 
 happy result we owe in no small degree to your wise conserva- 
 tism and broad outlook over the whole field of education. 
 Closely related to this movement for wider choice of studies 
 and greater independence of a routine curriculum is the effort 
 to foster graduate study, and to build up that higher side of 
 the University that in the end must measure its real character 
 and influence. 
 
 Twenty-five years ago no graduate work, properly so-called, 
 was attempted. At present we have graduate courses of study 
 in all departments of the University. To no one subject have 
 your reports called more urgent attention than to the impor- 
 tance of building up this the most distinctive part of a true 
 university. 
 
 Closely allied to this forward movement is the constant ad- 
 vance made by our Professional Schools in their methods and 
 
EXERCISES IN UNIVERSITY HALL. 11 
 
 standards of instruction. In looking over the record of these 
 past years, the conviction is gained that the University has in 
 no other direction made greater strides than in this. Twenty- 
 five years ago there was no examination for admission to any 
 one of our professional schools ; to-day, preliminary training 
 that covers the equivalent of a good High School course is 
 required by all our professional departments. 
 
 Then, the term of both the Law and the Medical Schools 
 was six months for two years, and the instruction was given 
 chiefly by lectures. Now, our Medical Schools require a regis- 
 tration of four terms of nine months each, and set a stand- 
 ard for graduation that is as high as that of any medical 
 school in this country, while the Law School has length- 
 ened its course to three years of nine months each, and has 
 signally raised its standard of graduation. In all these de- 
 partments, the old style of instruction has been materially 
 modified or superseded by modern methods, in which labora- 
 tory practice and scientific research hold the most prominent 
 place. 
 
 The year before your induction into the presidency the 
 doors of the University were first thrown open to the admission 
 of women. What was for a time a bold experiment has be- 
 come an established success, and the hundreds of young women 
 who have worthily enjoyed the full privileges and advantages 
 of the University on absolutely equal terms with young men, 
 are glad to bring you their tribute of gratitude for your just 
 and wise administration, by which the interests of women in 
 this University have been made secure. 
 
 The entire life and spirit of the University during this 
 period which we pass in review have been marked by a steady 
 growth in good order and decorum, in friendly relations be- 
 tween pupils and teachers, and in all that makes for a whole- 
 some intellectual and moral atmosphere. 
 
 That amid much and necessary diversity of interest there has 
 been so much harmony and unity in our councils as a Senate, 
 and in the different Faculties, is due in no small measure to 
 your impartial conduct of affairs, your broad and generous 
 
12 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 views, your charitable spirit, and your gracious courtesy. 
 That the University has safely passed through many crises, 
 has gained respect and influence throughout our State and the 
 entire land, is to be attributed in large degree to your skillful 
 management, your experience in educational work, and to 
 your high character as a citizen and as a man. 
 
 We congratulate the University, Mr. President, upon the 
 reputation you have justly earned for her, a reputation not 
 bounded by the seas, but cherished also in the far Orient and 
 in the centres of European learning as well as at home. We 
 recall with feelings of honest pride how our own National 
 Government has thrice summoned you to high service in diplo- 
 macy and council. We are glad also to remember that in the 
 discussion of the great educational problems of our day, your 
 words are ever welcomed as those of one who has authority to 
 speak. 
 
 But most of all, we who have been associated with you these 
 many years admire and esteem you for what you have been 
 to us and to this beloved University. The cheerful and serene 
 temper in which you have borne the heavy burden of your 
 duties, the kind and gracious manner in which you have 
 helped us to fulfill our tasks, the spirit of hopefulness for the 
 future of this institution with which you have inspired us, the 
 numberless tokens of personal kindness you have shown to us 
 all, it is these daily ministrations of your life if you will 
 pardon what Plato would call too much downrightness of 
 speech that endear you to us all. Our memories thrill to-day 
 with sacred recollections of the past, and we fancy we hear 
 mingling with our words of greeting voices from the silent 
 land of those beloved colleagues who twenty-five years ago 
 stood here to bid you welcome to this post of honor, but who 
 are with us now only in memory and in spirit, to join with us 
 in these expressions of our esteem and praise. 
 
 In closing these congratulations, Mr. President, the mem- 
 bers of the Senate are cheered by the hope that the same bond 
 which has united us all these many years in common work and 
 interest may be cemented still more firmly by future years of 
 
EXERCISES IN UNIVERSITY HALL. 13 
 
 companionship in the great work in which we are engaged. 
 May that divine Providence that has blessed you so abun- 
 dantly in the past still attend you and prolong your days of 
 fruitful service to this University, to which so much of your 
 life has been given. And may the blessing of Heaven also be 
 vouchsafed to her who during all this time has so devotedly 
 stood at your side to aid you, and who by her deeds of kind- 
 ness and helpfulness has made herself the friend of all our 
 University community. 
 
 Whatever be the future of this University, your work on its 
 behalf shall be an abiding possession of good influence and 
 power, and shall constitute one of the chief elements of its 
 greatness and renown for all time. 
 
 RESOLUTIONS OF THE STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIA- 
 TION. 
 
 Whereas, This year completes the twenty-fifth anniversary 
 of President Angell's connection with the University of 
 Michigan ; 
 
 Whereas, During that time the growth of the University 
 has been marked not only by a large increase in the number 
 of its students, but by the wisdom and enlightenment of a 
 most liberal educational policy ; 
 
 Whereas, The High Schools of the State, and through 
 them the Common Schools, have felt the inspiration and uplift 
 of a close connection with the University, hundreds of young 
 men and women of but moderate means having thus been led 
 to set their faces ambitiously in the direction of University 
 life and culture ; and 
 
 Whereas, In this respect no university in the country can 
 be said to have exerted so widespread and salutary an influ- 
 ence upon popular education, an influence due in no small 
 degree to the ripe scholar and able executive who has the 
 management of the University in charge ; 
 
 fiesolved, That we, the teachers of Michigan, do hereby 
 most gratefully express our appreciation of his eminent ser- 
 vices to the cause of popular education in our Commonwealth ; 
 
14 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 Resolved, That while we congratulate him upon the distin- 
 guished success of his administration in the past, we do also 
 express the hope that his genial presence may be spared to the 
 State yet many a year to carry forward the interests so dear 
 to his heart. 
 
 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S RESPONSE. 
 
 Gentlemen of the Board of Regents, of the, University 
 Senate, and of the State Teachers' Association, I beg to 
 return my sincere thanks to you for the kind words with 
 which you greet me on this the twenty-fifth anniversary of my 
 inauguration. 
 
 But my gratitude is mingled with a sense of humility, as I 
 consider how far, in my opinion, your estimate of the value of 
 my services exceeds their real worth. The partiality of your 
 friendship has ascribed to me merit far beyond my deserts. But 
 the friendship is most dear to me, and this touching manifes- 
 tation of it from those with whom it has been my rare good 
 fortune to labor for so many years almost obliterates from my 
 memory for the moment my failures and shortcomings and 
 disappointments, which have sometimes oppressed me in my 
 work. Your words embolden me to believe that those who 
 know me best are persuaded that however I may have fallen 
 below their ideals and below my own, yet with devotion to 
 the interests of the University and of the State, and with the 
 consecration of whatever powers God has bestowed on me, I 
 have striven to do my whole duty. No higher reward could 
 I hope or wish in return for my years of toil, with all their 
 fatigues and anxieties, than the assurance, from you who best 
 of all men know the difficulties that have been encountered 
 and the results that have been accomplished, that my work 
 has not been altogether fruitless. 
 
 But I should fail to do justice at once to the truth and to 
 my own feelings, if I did not hasten to say that all my efforts 
 would have been in vain if I had not been counseled and 
 assisted by so true and faithful men on the Board of Regents 
 and in the Faculties. The fidelity with which Regents who 
 
EXERCISES IN UNIVERSITY HALL. 15 
 
 had large business interests or engrossing professional duties, 
 have given time and thought and labor to the University, has 
 been an indispensable element in its success. I know of no 
 university which has been better cared for by its official 
 guardians. I am glad of this opportunity to thank the pres- 
 ent members of the Board and their predecessors for their 
 unvarying kindness and helpfulness to me. I remember with 
 tender interest that nine who have served on the Board with 
 me have died. 
 
 What university has had a more choice collection of men 
 in its Faculties during the last quarter of a century than this ! 
 It is they who preeminently have made the University what it 
 is. In my service and companionship with them is found one 
 of the dearest memories of my life. Alas I that in so many 
 cases the companionship has already been severed by death. 
 Out of the one hundred and seventy teachers now here, only 
 seven were here when I came. You have quoted from the 
 hearty greeting which my old teacher and lifelong friend, 
 Doctor Frieze, gave me on the day of my inauguration. How 
 valuable were his counsels ! How dear was his friendship to 
 me to the day of his death ! How in our long walks we used 
 to dream dreams of the coming greatness and power and be- 
 neficence of this University ! Many of these dreams, thanks in 
 large part to his labors and influence, have already been real- 
 ized in fact. Besides him death has snatched away how many 
 noble and distinguished men, who had long served the Uni- 
 versity : Williams, good old Doctor Williams, as we always 
 love to call him, Douglas, Sager, Cocker, Morris, Olney, 
 Winchell, Campbell, Walker, Wells, Watson, Palmer, Crosby, 
 Lyster, Ford, Dunster, the brothers Cheever, and Elisha 
 Jones, and last of all, the venerable Felch. One has only to 
 call this roll of illustrious names to understand why students 
 from all parts of the Union, and from the nations beyond the 
 seas, have flocked to these halls. They have been drawn 
 hither to sit at the feet of these great teachers, and of others 
 like them, who, thank God, are still spared to us. 
 
 I can claim no merit save that of having heartily cooperated 
 
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 with these learned and wise instructors. Large as is our body 
 of teachers, we have habitually followed one rule, which in my 
 opinion has been of inestimable service, both in promoting the 
 proverbial harmony and friendliness among us, and in secur- 
 ing wise legislation and successful administration. That rule 
 is, never to make any important innovation on the vote of a 
 bare majority, but to wait until we are substantially agreed 
 on the wisdom of a change before introducing it. So we have 
 wrought together with one heart and one mind, and in the 
 enjoyment of the most delightful social relations. 
 
 If I have accomplished anything here, it is mainly because 
 my colleagues, from the oldest to the youngest, have so heartily 
 stood by me, have been so patient with my shortcomings, have 
 so promptly responded to every request, nay to every sugges- 
 tion which I have made. Never was a president surrounded 
 by more helpful and loyal associates. My heart runs out 
 with gratitude to them for the innumerable acts by which they 
 have lightened my burdens and made my tasks a pleasure. 
 
 Nor would I forget to-day how helpful have been the rela- 
 tions which the students have chosen to maintain with me. 
 Several thousand have come and gone during these twenty-five 
 years. My heart is bound by the tenderest ties to the great 
 company of students whom I have seen going from these halls 
 year after year. Nothing gives me keener joy or more pride 
 in the University than to see them worthily occupying posi- 
 tions of influence and usefulness. No more pleasant experi- 
 ence comes to me than to receive their cordial greetings 
 wherever I go. Their affection for their Alma Mater is an 
 endowment more precious than untold treasures of silver and 
 gold. Because we are sure of their devotion to her, we are 
 full of hope for the future. 
 
 I beg to assure my friends of the State Teachers' Associa- 
 tion that I appreciate most highly their words of welcome 
 to-day. Nothing have I had more at heart during all these 
 years than the cultivation of the closest relations between the 
 University and the Schools. Nothing has been more helpful 
 to the University than the cordiality with which the Schools 
 
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 have responded to our approaches to them. I believe that 
 thus the Schools and the University have been able to render 
 most valuable aid to each other, and so to make the Michigan 
 system of public education worthy of the high commendation 
 which it has so often elicited from competent observers. No- 
 thing could give me higher satisfaction than to know that my 
 sincere efforts to cooperate with the teachers in this valuable 
 work have in their opinion been of any service. 
 
 May I express my great gratification that you have invited 
 representatives from our sister universities to be present with 
 us to-day, and that so many of them have been kind enough 
 to honor us with their presence. I have only fulfilled your 
 desire in seeking by every means in my power to cultivate 
 the most cordial relations with other colleges and universities. 
 You have often heard me announce my belief that no good 
 college or university hurts another good one. It is only the 
 unworthy institution that cherishes envy of another. We 
 have always tried to learn all that was profitable to us from 
 every other university. We hope that by some wise and brave 
 experiments we too have thrown light, which other institutions 
 have been glad to gain, on certain problems of higher educa- 
 tion. There is work enough for us all to do. Great has been 
 the revolution in college methods and administration within 
 my recollection. We gladly send our salutations to all the 
 sisterhood of colleges and universities, and express our ardent 
 desire to cooperate with them in all efforts to enhance the 
 value of the higher education for this and the coming gen- 
 erations. 
 
 And now, my friends, I hope it is not inappropriate for me 
 to return my thanks to all who have evinced an interest, so 
 unexpected to me, in the celebration of this day, to my two 
 friends whose lofty verse and stately music are so happily 
 married in the ode we are about to hear, to this concourse of 
 my neighbors from this city, my beloved home, to the many 
 citizens gathered here from all parts of this State, to the 
 alumni from all sections of the country, to numerous college 
 presidents who have sent me kindly messages, to the public 
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18 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 press of many cities and towns. I willingly believe that the 
 interest in the celebration is mainly interest in the University. 
 I greatly prefer that it should be so. But for the many gra- 
 cious words and acts that I am compelled to interpret as words 
 and acts of personal kindness to me, I am most humbly and 
 profoundly grateful. 
 
 I am deeply touched by the delicate but positive recognition 
 in the Address of the services of my wife to the University. 
 For her aid in unnumbered ways through all the vicissitudes 
 of these years, especially in the social responsibilities which 
 fall here upon the President's house, she is entitled to share 
 with me to the full whatever honor this day can bring to me. 
 In her name and in my own I beg to thank you. 
 
 In the course of nature the day is not remote when some 
 other man must take the official responsibility which has for a 
 quarter of a century rested on me, and which has so greatly 
 increased since I assumed it. I pray that he may be a stronger 
 and wiser man than I have been. I am sure that the kind 
 consideration which Regents and Faculties and students and 
 the public have shown to me will make a strong and wise man 
 more willing than he might otherwise be to accept the high 
 and sacred trust. If such shall prove to be the fact, the cele- 
 bration of this day will have amply justified itself. Mean- 
 while, for myself, allow me to make my closing like my open- 
 ing words, thanks, thanks, my heartiest thanks. 
 
 PROFESSOR GAYLEY'S ODE. 
 
 i. 
 
 The State. 
 
 O State enthroned beside the triple sea, 
 
 Embraced, embattled by his ageless arms, 
 Accept our homage, and this strain that we 
 With hearts attuned, in all humility, 
 As prelude to thy seemlier praises offer thee, 
 And grant us grace to know thy glory, sing thy sovereign charms ! 
 
 H. 
 
 By forests towering absolute, 
 By regions subterranean, mute, 
 
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 Where treasures sleep and shades obtain, 
 Thy rivers haste ; by cedared bend, and lane 
 Where sumachs hold their crimson reign, 
 
 Through openings where maples shoot, 
 By flock and herd and laboring wain, 
 
 Through orchards bourgeoning for fruit 
 
 They wind amain, 
 Through reaches yellowing to grain 
 And village, field, and furrowed plain, 
 
 Till leaping, singing, 
 
 They win at last some harbor of the sea 
 Where ships at anchor swinging, 
 And thousand belfries ringing, 
 And court and market, render ceaselessly 
 The service of themselves and all to thee. 
 Like stars that stud the firmament, O State, 
 Thy glories, but not these thou bidst us celebrate. 
 
 m. 
 
 O State enthroned beside the triple sea, 
 
 Not all thy borders' rich emblazonry, 
 
 Nor wealth, nor freedom most ennobles thee, 
 
 But thy Fairest at whose knee 
 We learn that heavenly learning is nobility. 
 
 IV. 
 
 The University. 
 
 O Fair 
 Mother of Learning and immortal youth, 
 
 My children call thee blessed, know thee wise, 
 Whose smile is beauty, and whose eyes 
 Benignant with the light of love and truth 
 
 Enkindle hearts of men to high emprise. 
 They call thee blessed, yea, revere thee, most 
 Because thou teachest, uttering not the boast, 
 
 That with thy sons it lies 
 To mould the ages, make them less uncouth 
 
 To point the people to the life above 
 To tread the path of duty in the freedom that is love. 
 
 v. 
 
 O Fair 
 
 In peace, in peril beautiful, 
 They found thee fairest whom thou gavest dutiful 
 
20 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 To Country and the Name ; 
 Thy best and dearest who laid down 
 The crown of myrtle for the crown 
 
 Of sacrifice and sword and flame 
 And Life that palters not with fate or fortune, fear or fame. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Unsure the thread of Fate, 
 Uncertain Fortune's wheel, 
 Thine the presence ever-living, 
 Thine the inspiration giving 
 The courage of the Destiny thou dost reveal ! 
 Unsure the thread of Fate, 
 Uncertain Fortune's wheel, 
 
 But thy dwelling, gracious Mother but thy Temple of the State 
 Enshrines the Lamp, the living Fire, 
 The Book of life and art and soul's desire, 
 
 Ensures the Commonweal 
 And quickens unto service the souls whom thou dost seal. 
 
 VII. 
 
 The President. 
 
 Few the souls afire with ardor of the living fire itself, 
 Few the lives that stake no portion of eternity for pelf, 
 Few the hearts that petty impulse, gusts of passion do not move, 
 Few the men that walk the narrow way of wisdom that is love. 
 Who would serve thee, sacred Mother, and preserve thee to the State, 
 
 Chief est of thy servants, must be great ; 
 Great in goodness, great in counsel, resolute and moderate, 
 Serving not the time nor temper, moulding men for God and State, 
 Fit himself to speak the nation's voice to nations and to arbitrate ; 
 In the larger, never hasting purpose, 
 
 Undisturbed 
 
 In the faith that Right will blossom, and the times uncouth amend, 
 And the vulgar babble languish, and the vain desire be curbed. 
 If thy fortunes so are guided, have a statesman for their friend, 
 
 Thy years descend ! 
 
 vm. 
 
 Star-like steady, radiant ready, seeing far and seeing right, 
 Fire-like glowing, cheer bestowing, generous of heart and light 
 This the statesman-scholar whom we honor in his own despite ! 
 
 Not his burning thoughts nor golden 
 
 Eloquence alone embolden 
 
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 Us to heights with glory emit, 
 But his bright example holden 
 In the heart, unconscious, golden, 
 
 Life on lives of others writ 
 Life that tells of longer life within, around, above, 
 Life that treads the path of duty in the freedom that is love, 
 Life that knows the worth of life and shows the wealth of it. 
 Vain the praises that we give him, 
 Vain, unworthy to outlive him, 
 
 For he recks of praises nothing, counts them neither fair nor fit: 
 He who bears his honors lightly 
 
 And whose age renews its zest 
 Lo, the maple, snowed upon, is sightly, 
 And its sap runs best. 
 
 rx. 
 
 Honor to him, peace unto him, pointing us the way above, 
 Love unto him, long life to him, whom no love of life can move ! 
 
 Hardly shall we find another 
 When he ceases, 
 
 May God grant thee such another 
 
 Counselor, O Reverend Mother, 
 When he ceases, 
 
 Grant us grieving one such other 
 
 President and friend and brother 
 
 Ripe in wisdom, just in judgment whom the years revolving prove 
 Leading us the way of duty in the freedom that is love. 
 
 DEAN MURKAY'S ADDRESS. 
 
 It seems strange that only in recent years has the history 
 of educational institutions received the attention it deserves. 
 A search through our libraries would show that the orderly 
 and complete records of the Continental and British univer- 
 sities have appeared within the closing period of the nineteenth 
 century. Anniversaries of their founding and occasions like 
 the present have done much to stimulate research into their 
 educational development. The part great universities abroad 
 have been playing in the development of our civilization is 
 now becoming understood. This is a hopeful sign. We hail 
 it with joy. 
 
22 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 The occasion which brings us together to-day has, therefore, 
 a two-fold significance. Primarily, chiefly indeed, it is a per- 
 sonal tribute to a distinguished educator, whose twenty-five 
 years of service here have won for him a national renown. 
 But it will also serve to fasten more widely public attention on 
 the vast interests which centre in every such institution as the 
 University of Michigan, charged as they are with contents so 
 vital to the best things in life. 
 
 In the " drum and trumpet " vein of history, the educator 
 has had no full nor just recognition. Fewer lines have been 
 given to John Colet than to the Rye-House Plot, In all Eng- 
 land, there was but one man, John Milton, whose tract on 
 education marks him as a forerunner of modern progressive 
 views, himself indeed an educator as well as a poet, who clearly 
 saw what Comenius represented to the world. We to-day 
 understand for the first time the great services rendered by 
 the Middle- Age universities to the world's progress. In them 
 were the seeds of that progress, not in the cabals which plot- 
 ted in every European court, not in the wretched wars which 
 changed the map of the world and did not better its condition, 
 not in the dreary theological disputes which racked the heads 
 and hearts of men. And yet history has found her material 
 mainly in such movements, and not in the silent but after all 
 deeper forces which were slowly ripening in the schools. 
 
 But the change has come. The great competitor which 
 challenges recognition at the expense of our modern educa- 
 tional development is the brilliant, surpassing material growth 
 of our times, at once a sign of our progress and a menace 
 to our nobler life. Yet there are indications that this is to 
 become tributary to educational interests, illustrations of 
 which you find in the care of its University by great States 
 like Michigan, and by the consecration of private wealth to 
 the upbuilding of sister institutions, East and West. 
 
 There are, however, two great facts emerging to view as one 
 looks over the whole field of educational progress. One is, 
 that like any other great cause, religion, statecraft, philan- 
 thropy, commercial enterprise, education must have its leaders. 
 
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 The other fact, and that which brings me to the specific duty 
 you have assigned me, is that every great institution finds its 
 successful growth dependent on its head. It is not too much 
 to say that the fortunes of any educational institution will vary 
 with the fitness of its chosen head to preside over its destinies. 
 What then constitutes an ideal president for an institution 
 like the University of Michigan ? He has been well described 
 already in the eloquent address of Mr. Cocker, speaking for 
 the Board of Regents, and in the beautiful tribute from the 
 Senate presented by Dr. D'Ooge. What shall I say more ? 
 First of all, he should be a scholar, with all the noble instincts 
 and aspirations and insight that only scholarship can give. I 
 have great respect for business men so-called. But I cannot 
 feel that the headship of a great educational institution can be 
 wisely left to men who are simply eminent in business ability. 
 The position demands far higher qualities, of which scholar- 
 ship is chief and secures the ability to guide and develop edu- 
 cational forces. The ideal president should be, too, a man of 
 affairs, uniting with his scholarship administrative gifts. He 
 should be endowed with the power and charm of public address, 
 capable of attracting men by the affability which endows 
 native strength with new force. He should be capable too of 
 inspiring his Faculties with enthusiasm and uniting them in a 
 common devotion to the interests of the institution they serve. 
 If to these great gifts you add public influence gained by dis- 
 tinguished public services, you have but to name one more 
 element and you have the ideal university president. That ele- 
 ment is an earnest and attractive religious character, the root 
 and flower of all that is highest and best in man. And I need 
 only add that the twenty-five years of his service here have 
 shown that in President Angell the University of Michigan 
 has been blest with the labors, as it gratefully recognizes, of 
 the ideal university president. The secret of this great suc- 
 cess was told in a few words by a distinguished physician of 
 New York city, the late Dr. Ben Crosby : " President Angell," 
 he said, " is a man of superb quality throughout." 
 
 And therefore I bring to him and to you, the alumni and 
 
24 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 friends of the University, the greetings of the Trustees and 
 Faculty of Princeton College, soon to celebrate its hundred 
 and fifty years of educational work, and to become in name as 
 in fact Princeton University. The institution I have the 
 honor to represent gladly recognizes the splendid services here 
 done for higher education. Further, I bring to him and to 
 you the salutations of his Alma Mater and mine, fond of him, 
 proud of him, when nigh fifty years ago his scholarly attain- 
 ments gave promise which he has fully redeemed. And, lastly, 
 
 my friend of college days, 
 
 " For we were nursed upon the self -same hill," 
 
 whose friendship has been to me through all the changes of 
 life a blessed joy and strength, the mellow, sacred light of 
 which gilds our closing years, I bring you my own heartfelt 
 tribute. 
 
 JUSTIN WINSOR'S ADDRESS. 
 
 Two years ago Harvard recognized the twenty-fifth anni- 
 versary of President Eliot, and he has commissioned me to 
 extend to-day his and Harvard's congratulations. It is appro- 
 priate for these two great universities of the country, one of 
 the East and the other of the West, to exchange greetings. 
 Harvard, under the burden of years, shows no trace of senility, 
 
 1 believe ; and Michigan University stands even yet in its 
 youth like an athletic giant prepared to go on to further con- 
 quests. 
 
 The President knows, and I know, but perhaps no one else 
 in this assembly knows, how gladly at one time Harvard would 
 have welcomed him to her service. That he decided to remain 
 steadfast to your interest is the only solace we feel to-day for a 
 lost opportunity. 
 
 PROFESSOR CLARK'S ADDRESS. 
 
 As the Chairman has kindly intimated, I am here in a two- 
 fold character, first, as a loyal adopted son and representa- 
 tive of Yale, and secondly, as a loyal son of this University 
 herself. 
 
OP THK 
 
 UNIVERSITY 
 
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 In my own eyes the only possible qualification I have, if 
 any, to represent Yale on this memorable occasion is loyalty 
 to both universities, and I could sincerely wish that she might 
 have chosen for so pleasant and important a duty a son to 
 the manor born, one gifted in speech and conspicuous in 
 achievement. But as her President has charged me with the 
 duty, it must not be mine to reason why. I bring you then 
 her hearty greetings and congratulations, and earnest assurance 
 of her high estimation of what this University has wrought, 
 I may say, from the very beginning, but especially of what she 
 has so nobly and vigorously achieved under the preeminent 
 and masterly leadership of the President whom you and we 
 now so justly delight to publicly honor. 
 
 The most notable features of the wonderful growth and pro- 
 gress of the University under his administration of a quarter 
 of a century have been so fittingly recounted by representa- 
 tives of your own bodies, that I must not now allude to them 
 further than to say that they cannot but have deeply impressed 
 every careful student of educational and social progress in our 
 land, and made it plain that this University during the period 
 we commemorate has been a potent factor in our national ad- 
 vancement ; and of her healthy action upon her elder sisters 
 every one of them should be ready to testify, and doubtless is. 
 
 The tribute of personal admiration which you have brought 
 at this time to the accomplished gentleman and scholar, the 
 able and skillful administrator, who has so long presided over 
 the University and given such wise direction to its affairs and 
 impetus to its progress, while as has often been remarked, at 
 the same time bringing it additional distinction by his public 
 services to the country, we of Yale can most heartily appre- 
 ciate, and there are still among our numbers some who came 
 to admire him at an early period of his distinguished career, 
 to whom it will be especially delightful. 
 
 And now, President Angell, permit me both in my represent- 
 ative character and for myself, as a son of Michigan, to con- 
 gratulate you personally, not only upon the splendid success of 
 your long administration and the loyal and devoted friendship 
 
26 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 of all the bodies of the University, which it has so firmly 
 cemented, but also upon the health and strength the well- 
 nigh youthful vigor you still enjoy, and which encourages 
 in us such hopes for its continuance. And finally, in conclud- 
 ing these congratulations, allow me to unite with the gentle- 
 men who have preceded me in offering you the homage of the 
 heart. 
 
 PRESIDENT DRAPER'S ADDRESS. 
 
 The committee charged with the arrangements for this 
 event, and which invited me to come and bring the greetings 
 and kindly wishes of other State Universities, had the foresight 
 to signify the hope that I would bring with me the ability to 
 express their congratulations in not more than fifteen minutes 
 of time. It was asking a great deal ; but when the celebration 
 was to be so significant, the friends so numerous, and the con- 
 gratulations so abundant, as it was known they would be, 
 there was no occasion for an apology for the imposition of a 
 time limit upon individual speakers. In that, your committee 
 only exemplified anew the worldly wisdom of the University of 
 Michigan. 
 
 It has been related that very late in the life of Mr. Emer- 
 son, when his mind had almost failed and life itself was just 
 flickering in the socket, he was visited at Concord by Dr. 
 Oliver Wendell Holmes. They walked together in the garden 
 in this glorious month of June. In a half-conscious state Mr. 
 Emerson passed myriads of flowers until they came upon an 
 American Beauty rose, more exquisite and stately than all the 
 rest. It caught his attention and started his enthusiasm into 
 life again. Straightening himself, the grand old man removed 
 his hat with dignity ; then, turning to his friend and pointing 
 to the flower, he said : " I feel like taking off my hat to it, 
 sir." 
 
 No one interested in higher education can go up and down 
 the earth without instinctively removing his hat when he 
 comes to the University of Michigan. The first time I really 
 came into contact with it was when, years ago, as State Super- 
 
EXERCISES IN UNIVERSITY HALL. 27 
 
 intendent of the Empire State and ex officio a trustee of Cor- 
 nell University, I ran against so large a section of your Uni- 
 versity as is represented in the persons of Presidents Andrew 
 Dickson White and Charles Kendall Adams. You will not 
 deny that you were represented in a way to challenge my ad- 
 miration at once. Since then I have been in some trouble, for 
 I have learned that you are so much in evidence upon the 
 earth that, if one is to follow the chivalric example of Mr. 
 Emerson, he will have to stand with his hat in his hand a good 
 part of the time. 
 
 But the fact that the University of Michigan has grown 
 strong and great is not her chief glory. So much might be 
 said of others. Much more may be said of her. She has 
 been a pioneer in world history. She was the first realization 
 of Washington's dream and of Jefferson's plan. Of all the 
 unique characteristics of the American free-school system, none 
 is more typical of American thought, none goes farther to 
 exemplify the American spirit in the world, than that one 
 which has had its marked development in recent years and in 
 the States of the centre and the West ; which has made State 
 Universities as much a part of that system as are the ele- 
 mentary schools ; which has gained for these universities the 
 support and made them the pride of the people ; which has 
 adapted their work to life's real conditions ; which has made 
 a smooth and continuous road from the primary school up to 
 and through them ; and which arouses an ambition on the 
 part of the sons and daughters of the multitudes to follow that 
 road to the end. In that great movement the University of 
 Michigan led the way, and she led it so steadily and strongly, 
 so bravely and so cheerily, that she has gained the respect of 
 all the world, and easily become much more than the most con- 
 spicuous institution and the chief glory of the Commonwealth 
 whose name she bears. 
 
 No other testimony can speak the praise of an individual so 
 strongly, and probably none so properly and so acceptably, as 
 evidence of the esteem in which the world holds the work he 
 has performed. The circumstances and life of the people, the 
 
28 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 minds and hearts of managers, instructors, and students, all go 
 to determine the life of a university. But we all know how 
 the life in the executive office exerts an influence above and 
 beyond that of any other. If incapable of leadership, the term 
 is short ; if it makes for peace, it moulds the whole mass ; if 
 it promotes health and growth, it pours its qualities into the 
 lives of all the rest. 
 
 I have little knowledge of the details of your University 
 history. The names of Tappan, and Haven, and others are 
 familiar, and we all know how deserving they are of our grate- 
 ful remembrance. But a later name has occupied the first 
 place twice as long as any other. That one was among the 
 first, if it was not the first, of a new style and order of men in 
 the college presidencies of the country. But its success has 
 been so marked, qualities for which it stands have been so 
 potent in institutional development, that, when an opening 
 now occurs in any college or university, little consideration 
 is given to any name which is not to be found somewhere in 
 its general class. 
 
 Coming to this presidency, not in the late years of an 
 honored life, but in vigorous young manhood, James B. Angell 
 brought with him zeal and enthusiasm, sympathy with the 
 young and interest in their ambitions, a knowledge of the 
 world's affairs, and a keen appreciation of, and undoubting 
 confidence in, the inevitable trend of modern life. He has 
 kept in touch with the world and in close sympathy with its 
 people. He has reveled in and he has enriched its literature. 
 He has written much, and his writings have stimulated all the 
 higher interests of humanity. The time which you have 
 allowed him to give to the diplomatic service of the nation has 
 been of great value to the public interests at once and directly ; 
 but it has been of much greater indirect value because of the 
 extent to which it sharpened his thought and opened the way 
 for his influence, in all the succeeding years, upon the affairs 
 of his country, and upon her interdependent relations with 
 the other nations of the world. It brought very high returns 
 to you in a still larger, broader, stronger life, which was to be 
 
EXERCISES IN UNIVERSITY HALL. 29 
 
 even more controlling in making a stronger, truer, higher life 
 for you. He has stood for a symmetrical and complete public 
 educational system ; he has been a valued factor, and made 
 your University a still more important factor, indeed a leading 
 and historic factor, in the evolution of such a system. Per- 
 haps better than all, his spirit has been at peace with the 
 world, at one with its Maker, attuned to the harmony of the 
 skies. And year after year these attributes of his individu- 
 ality, as they have grown riper and richer, have been bravely 
 and cheerily shaping the character, framing and declaring the 
 policy, widening the influence and determining the status, of 
 the University of Michigan. 
 
 All of the State Universities extend to your President and 
 your University their heartiest greetings upon this silvery 
 anniversary. All remember and testify of the courteous visits, 
 frequently at no little inconvenience to himself, and the stimu- 
 lating suggestions of your President in their own work ; and 
 all bear witness to the leading and helpful influence of your 
 great institution in their affairs. All send you congratula- 
 tions, not only upon what has been and what is, but also upon 
 the excellent promise of what is to be. 
 
 I have observed this morning, with some little irritation to 
 my sensibilities, something of a disposition to make frequent 
 and perhaps doleful reference to the fact that we are all grow- 
 ing old, and that some time we shall have an account with 
 Nature which we shall be called upon to settle. I came up to 
 a celebration, not to a memorial service ; and a celebration it 
 shall be. There is nothing here to make a memorial service 
 out of, if we were to try it. It is an anniversary of a most 
 consequential event in the history of this institution, a celebra- 
 tion of noble accomplishments, a public and glad testimonial 
 of the fact that the heights of successful leadership have been 
 attained by a man and by an institution, in serenity of mind, 
 in perfect health, and amid the universal acclaim and the un- 
 limited commendation of the multitude. 
 
 Now may the fruits be enjoyed, and the resulting conse- 
 quences be unfolded and enforced ! May good health, long 
 
30 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 life, and many years hence a serene, youthful old age, en- 
 riched by the support of the innumerable lives he has helped 
 and by honors he has earned, be the gracious lot of President 
 Angell ! May the University, under the continued influence of 
 his benign leadership, mount upon its own achievements to 
 higher and still higher things ; may there be other anniver- 
 saries of even greater significance, and may we be there to 
 help them on ! 
 
 COMMISSIONER HARRIS'S ADDRESS. 
 
 While the United States as a whole feels interest in the 
 prosperity of the State of Michigan, and in each county and 
 township of Michigan, yet it cannot regard the prosperity of 
 Michigan University as in any sense a local interest. In 
 many ways the history of this University has been the history 
 of higher education for a large portion of the Union. 
 
 For Michigan was the first to demonstrate that an institu- 
 tion founded by the government of a State, and dependent on 
 the legislature for a large portion of its support, can gather 
 in its Faculty a corps of professors thoroughly cultured in all 
 branches of human learning ; and, more than this, that it can 
 demand and secure of its students a high standard of prepara- 
 tion, and a thorough mastery of the college course, as a condi- 
 tion of receiving its diploma of graduation. 
 
 Other States in this great Northwest have seen the mag- 
 nificent achievements of the people of Michigan, and have 
 followed its lead to a high success. But Michigan was the 
 pioneer, and solved on its way those problems that beset 
 higher education which arise when it depends upon the will 
 of the masses of the people, themselves not participant in the 
 advantages of higher education and sometimes jealous of its 
 influence. 
 
 This University has shown what higher education can do 
 for secondary and elementary education, lifting it up to the 
 required standard, stimulating each ambitious youth to avail 
 himself of the opportunities extended to him in the free public 
 school system crowned with a university at the summit. 
 
EXERCISES IN UNIVERSITY HALL. 31 
 
 It was the disciple of Thomas Jefferson, A. B. Woodward, 
 appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of the Territory of 
 Michigan, who, in his zeal for his master's idea of a State Uni- 
 versity, procured the adoption of the law first establishing such 
 an institution, five years before a similar law was enacted in 
 Virginia. Although the pedantry of its Greek nomenclature 
 has drawn ridicule upon the scheme of Judge Woodward, yet 
 the idea of an all-round system of learning has exercised an 
 educative effect on the people of Michigan ever since its pro- 
 mulgation. 
 
 The fortunes of the University have attracted about it as a 
 nucleus a series of remarkable men, such as Isaac E. Crary, 
 John D. Pierce, Asa Gray the botanist, Henry Philip Tappan, 
 Erastus Otis Haven, Henry Simmons Frieze. These names 
 are precious in the history of education. Before Massachu- 
 setts had established a board of education, before it had 
 appointed its great secretary, Horace Mann, John D. Pierce 
 held the office of State Superintendent of Schools in Michigan. 
 With him came a new impulse towards realizing the lofty 
 ideal of a university which had already existed twenty years, 
 on paper, in this State. 
 
 There should always be named to the honor of this Univer- 
 sity the introduction of seminary instruction in history and 
 kindred topics, a skillful adaptation of a European method, 
 by Professor Charles Kendall Adams. On this has been 
 founded the second stage of higher education, that of post- 
 graduate study, which is now growing so rapidly over the coun- 
 try, especially from the centres of Harvard, Cornell, Johns 
 Hopkins, Chicago, and Wisconsin. The seminary and labora- 
 tory, so early developed here, furnish the means of original 
 investigation, and it is this that makes pctet-graduate courses 
 worth the time of the student. The future of higher education 
 in the United States is to be closely bound up with the work 
 of the seminary and the laboratory. 
 
 For these and many other important movements initiated 
 here, such as the credit system, the diploma relation, coedu- 
 cation in State Universities, the special system for teachers, 
 
32 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 for all these things the other States, nay, the nation itself, holds 
 in high regard Michigan University, and claims it as of the 
 whole people, and not of Michigan locally. It rejoices with 
 you to-day in celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 
 ripe scholar who has presided here in these later years of 
 phenomenal growth in numbers and in power. It claims Dr. 
 Angell especially as one of the ablest members of its diplo- 
 matic reserve corps, borrowing his wisdom and learning, as 
 occasion needs, to sit on its treaty commissions or represent 
 the general government at foreign courts. 
 
 President Angell is always to be remembered by students of 
 sociology for the great work he did during the time of our 
 civil war, and just previous, in the way of creating the great 
 daily newspaper, in making it the educator of the people 
 that it has become; in making it the generative process of 
 Public Opinion. For we are more and more governed by 
 Public Opinion, and it is the newspaper that makes possible 
 its formation, leading it through a progressive development 
 out of the stage of mere first impulse on to a deliberate com- 
 parison of grounds and reasons, and finally deepening the 
 thought to a contemplation of causes. By this the mind of 
 the people arrives at conviction in the place of mere impulse. 
 
 This converts the newspaper into an instrument of school 
 extension by which all people continue their education, and it 
 forms a sort of national council by which contradictory feelings 
 and prejudices become purified and adjusted into wisdom. 
 This makes a great republic possible ; hence the newspaper is 
 not secondary to the school in this country and throughout the 
 world. 
 
 I congratulate you, on this the twenty-fifth anniversary of 
 his presidency, in the possession of a scholar, a wise adminis- 
 trative officer, a member of that national diplomatic council 
 that will preserve our peace with foreign nations, and a pro- 
 moter of the daily newspaper to higher fields of usefulness. 
 
THE EESPONSES AT THE DINNER. 
 
 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S RESPONSE. 
 
 I NEED hardly say that my heart is overflowing with grati- 
 tude to you all to-day ; but will you allow me to confess, with 
 some frankness, that it is with hesitation and shrinking that 
 I have seen this day approach ? for I have felt that I was so 
 utterly unworthy of the demonstrations which you are making 
 to-day. If I had not been persuaded by my good friends 
 that in some manner this demonstration might inure to the 
 benefit of the University, I hope that it is not ungracious nor 
 ungrateful for me to say that I should have much preferred 
 that it should be omitted. But I certainly should be more or 
 less than human not to be touched in my inmost heart by the 
 manifestation that has been made to-day. I know not how 
 to better express my emotions than by quoting the words 
 of Voltaire, who, on his return to Paris in his old age, when 
 he was so cordially received by many old friends, exclaimed, 
 On m'etouffe des roses (they suffocate me with roses). I 
 suppose that it is proper and perhaps is expected that the few 
 words which I shall speak now should pertain more especially 
 to my personal relations to the University. If they do, I trust 
 you will acquit me in advance of any appearance of egotism. 
 
 I was called to my present position in 1869. I then made 
 a visit to the University. On my return to the University of 
 Vermont, I found that the friends of that institution, who had 
 raised an endowment fund, would be greatly disappointed if 
 I did not remain long enough to assist in the distribution of 
 the fund. I therefore at once declined the invitation to Michi- 
 gan. Two years later the Regents renewed the invitation, 
 and by that time the University of Vermont had made such 
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34 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 progress that I felt free to leave it. While, with much em- 
 barrassment, I was debating the question in my own mind 
 whether I should come here, I fell in with a friend who had 
 very large business interests, and he made this very suggestive 
 remark to me : " Given the long lever, it is no harder to lift a 
 big load than it is with a shorter one to lift a smaller load." 
 I decided to try the end of the long lever. 
 
 I was forty-two when I came here, and I supposed that, if 
 I should prove equal to the task, I might fairly hope to be of 
 some service to the University for at least ten years, or per- 
 haps fifteen. I think I can unhesitatingly say that from that 
 moment all my aspirations were directed towards the upbuild- 
 ing of this institution. It is true that I have been occasionally 
 drafted into the public service by Presidents of the United 
 States ; but I have never suffered myself to yield to this draft 
 until the Eegents themselves had expressed the opinion that it 
 would be beneficial to the University that I should do so. I 
 may now say here, what I have never said before, that I have 
 several times been called to other universities and other fields 
 of labor, under the temptation of larger salary, but I have 
 never given ear to any of the calls, because I have always felt 
 that so long as you desired me here and my presence was 
 useful, I preferred to remain with you. 
 
 I may mention as a cause of sincere gratitude to God that, 
 during all these years of my life here, I have been in the 
 enjoyment of excellent health ; and what I wish to say for the 
 encouragement of some of my younger friends, and perhaps 
 rather a remarkable thing to say, is that since I entered 
 college in the year 1845, with the exception of six years of 
 editorial life, I have been constantly engaged, either as a stu- 
 dent or as a teacher, in college, and from that time till now 
 I believe that I have never been obliged by illness to miss a 
 recitation or a regular appointment. 
 
 When I came here, good Doctor Frieze, I suppose drawing 
 his prophecy from his experience of two years as acting Presi- 
 dent, said to me : " You will often find cares and anxieties 
 running over your head mountain high, but," he added with 
 
THE RESPONSES AT THE DINNER. 35 
 
 sympathy and kindness, " I believe you will emerge from 
 them." These cares, I need not say, have greatly increased 
 with the growth of the University ; but if I refer to them 
 briefly in passing, do not suppose that my life has not been 
 filled with joys. The delightful companionship of these 
 friends of mine ; the deepening interest of the State in the 
 University, its continuous and rapid growth, its increasing 
 fame even beyond the seas ; the enthusiasm and affection and 
 success of these thousands of students ; the cordiality and de- 
 votion of our alumni, many of whom graduated before my 
 time ; the visions which I have of the greatness and power of 
 this University fifty years, a century hence, these have daily 
 thrilled my heart with rapture and flooded my pathway with 
 sunshine. And now you have come to crown all these joys 
 with this beautiful tribute of your affection and esteem to-day. 
 Appreciative as I am of all your kindness, and grateful as 
 I am for all the kind wishes that have been or may be ex- 
 pressed, I beg to assure you that if this celebration shall re- 
 dound to the benefit of the University, and shall increase the 
 devotion of the alumni to it, and the pride of the State in it, 
 it will be the supremest joy which this day brings to my heart. 
 I, and even my younger colleagues, must soon pass away, but 
 the University goes on forever. It is far more than any one 
 man, more than all of us together. If there is any one word 
 that I wish to say, in addition to the word of thanks to-day, 
 it is this : Work for the perpetuity of this University ; per- 
 suade the legislatures, persuade the people of the State, per- 
 suade all generous-minded men, to plan for the perpetuity of 
 this great University. If there is any lesson that history 
 teaches, it is that, next to the church, the most enduring and 
 beneficent agencies are the great universities of the world. 
 During the past four hundred years, kings and emperors have 
 appeared and disappeared, dynasties have risen and fallen, 
 the map of Europe has been made and remade ; but the great 
 universities like Bologna, Paris, and Oxford stand to-day 
 fresh in eternal youth, pouring out their fertilizing streams 
 of learning in an unceasing flood. Is it not the most natural 
 
36 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 thing for every one of us to believe that, after our children 
 and our children's children shall have passed away, this Uni- 
 versity shall still be pouring out her streams of blessings, 
 wider and deeper, over the State, the nation, and the world? 
 We may indeed be thankful that we have been allowed to toil 
 for her in these her early years. Happy are you who have 
 the honor of calling yourselves her sons and daughters ; a long 
 and noble line will follow you. The imagination fails to con- 
 ceive what shall be the glory, the power, and influence of the 
 University of Michigan one hundred years hence. I only 
 know that, with one heart and one voice, all of us here, and the 
 thousands of sons and daughters of this University who are 
 scattered over the earth to-day, all of them are ready to 
 join with me in shouting, JEsto perpetua ! 
 
 EX-REGENT WILLAED'S RESPONSE. 
 
 While the sentiment just announced seems to convey a hint 
 that I am to be the Nestor of this occasion and deal in remi- 
 niscence, I shall endeavor to keep in mind the danger of pro- 
 lixity incident to such a role. It need scarcely be said in this 
 presence that it is one of my proudest recollections that I 
 had a part, as member of the Board of Regents, in calling Dr. 
 Angell to the presidency of the University. It is assuredly a 
 great satisfaction to witness this conspicuous recognition of 
 the wisdom of the choice then made. 
 
 My first official connection with the University was on the 
 first of January, 1864, when, under a new provision of the 
 State constitution, a Board of Regents entered upon duty 
 who, with one exception, were all new members. It may seem 
 strange, but it was nevertheless true, that we regarded the 
 University at that time as a somewhat old institution, though 
 it had measured but two decades of its history. We thought 
 it a very large institution, with a roll of students numbering 
 about one third of the present matriculation list, and with 
 only one fifth of the present enrollment in its Faculties ; and, as 
 my memory goes back to a still earlier period when the insti- 
 
THE RESPONSES AT THE DINNER. 37 
 
 tution was in its infancy, and notes the contrast presented by 
 this great assemblage of alumni and other representatives of 
 the University, and the distinguished educators from all parts 
 of our great country who have come to bring their congratu- 
 lations upon an event which so notably suggests its prosperity 
 and growth, I am reminded of a little incident which occurred 
 in my boyhood, and which has its chief title to mention from 
 the two eminent citizens of our State with whom it is asso- 
 ciated. Away back early in the " forties," at a state tem- 
 perance convention held in the then little village of Marshall, 
 one of the prominent questions under discussion was the 
 location of the state temperance monthly paper. A young 
 Methodist clergyman, then unknown to fame, but who after- 
 wards became one of the most influential leaders in his denom- 
 ination, dilated with great eloquence upon the importance of 
 having the paper removed from Detroit to Marshall, the centre 
 of the State, when a tall, slim young lawyer from the Detroit 
 delegation rose to reply. He said the gentleman last up, 
 in claiming Marshall as the centre of Michigan, was much 
 like the boy he had known on a farm next to his father's in 
 Vermont. The unsophisticated country lad went out one day 
 into the pasture, and, while reclining upon the grass, looked 
 up at the sky, and in a tone of astonishment exclaimed, " I 
 swan ! I never knew before that dad's farm was right in the 
 middle of the world." The incident will perhaps be more 
 fully appreciated when I say that the participants in this 
 discussion were the Rev. Dr. Elijah H. Pilcher and the Hon. 
 William A. Howard, both of whose names are indelibly im- 
 printed upon the history of our State. I am certain that if 
 these distinguished men, who were always among the Universi- 
 ty's nearest friends and champions, were now living, and were 
 with us here to-day, they would both agree that the institution 
 which has become so fully an object of our state pride has also 
 become much more completely a literary and educational 
 centre in our American world than they ever dreamed. 
 
 Upon the resignation of President Haven in 1869 the 
 Regents began to look out for a successor. We had one or 
 
38 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 two meetings for the purpose of selection, but, no satisfac- 
 tory names being suggested, it was determined that a com- 
 mittee of three of our number should make a tour through the 
 Eastern States, especially New England, to interview leading 
 educators, to visit some of the principal colleges, to inquire 
 concerning certain prominent men suggested for the position, 
 and to report the results of the investigation to the Board. 
 My associates on the committee were Regents J. M. B. Sill, 
 now United States Minister to Corea, and J. Eastman Johnson, 
 of Centreville. We proceeded eastward together as far as 
 Albany, where Regent Johnson left on a separate tour, while 
 Professor Sill and myself went to New York city. After two 
 or three days' search for information in that metropolis, we 
 went to New Haven. 
 
 Our chief purpose in visiting Yale was to make inquiry 
 concerning a person especially recommended to us by the late 
 Professor Frieze as undoubtedly possessing the right qualifi- 
 cations for the place we sought to fill, President Angell 
 of the University of Vermont. First interviewing President 
 Woolsey, clarum et venerabile nomen, we were put upon the 
 right track for reaching the object of our search. He said : 
 " I am not in direct touch with the younger men in college 
 work, and feel unable properly to meet your inquiries, though 
 I can say that Dr. Angell has acquired, for so young a man, 
 a very fine reputation, and would unquestionably make an 
 efficient head of your University." He then referred us to 
 Professor Noah Porter, who was afterward President Woolsey's 
 successor. From him we had a hearty welcome, and to the 
 subject of our inquiry he replied : "I do not know of any 
 man in New England so well fitted for the presidency of the 
 University of Michigan as Dr. Angell, and there is one nigh 
 at hand who can give you the most complete knowledge of his 
 qualifications. Professor George P. Fisher of our Yale, 
 Professor Diman of Brown University, and President Angell 
 are a kind of trinity here in New England, and if you see 
 Professor Fisher you will be able to determine the prospect 
 of securing Dr. Angell." So he ran out bareheaded with us 
 
THE RESPONSES AT THE DINNER. 39 
 
 over the little lawn to the residence of Professor Fisher, who 
 gave us a most favorable account of Dr. Angell's qualities, 
 his intellectual force, his accurate scholarship, his executive 
 ability, his genial personality, and his experience in affairs, con- 
 cluding with the declaration that in his acceptance of a call 
 to our University we might regard ourselves as extremely for- 
 tunate. It may well be imagined that by this time we had 
 become quite certain that we had hit upon the right clue for 
 obtaining the object of our search. 
 
 We pursued our way, and on a Saturday afternoon of a 
 warm summer day arrived at Burlington. "When we were as- 
 signed to our rooms at the hotel, which looked out upon Lake 
 Champlain and the distant Adirondacks, I for one began se- 
 riously to reflect upon the purpose of our mission. We had 
 come there to remain for a few days perfectly incognito, with 
 an object that seemed very much like an invasion of the most 
 dearly cherished institution of the place. We had come in 
 the character of spies into that peaceful valley, with the inten- 
 tion of taking from it the man in whom the pride of its people 
 had been centred. My own feelings in the affair were all the 
 more intensified as our clandestine operations were conducted 
 on the soil of my native State and county. It was, on the 
 whole, a very unpleasant feeling, for which the only compensa- 
 tion was the high service that we felt we were rendering to our 
 own Commonwealth of Michigan. The next day we heard 
 President Angell deliver his baccalaureate for Commencement 
 week, and you all know Dr. Angell's baccalaureates ; to say 
 that we were charmed would inadequately express our admira- 
 tion. We both said, " There is the man we seek ; " but we 
 thought it best to interview some of the leading citizens of 
 Burlington, among others United States Senator Edmunds, 
 who said : " Gentlemen, President Angell is all your fancy has 
 painted ; he would undoubtedly be the right man for you in 
 Michigan, but we cannot spare him from Vermont." So we 
 began to realize that we were confronted with a contest be- 
 tween the State of Vermont and the State of Michigan. We 
 returned. Dr. Angell was invited to the presidency of Michi- 
 
40 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 gan University. He visited the institution, and made an im- 
 pression upon the Faculty and the citizens of Ann Arbor 
 which only gave intensity to the desire for his acceptance. 
 But the Board were destined to be rejected suitors for the 
 time. 
 
 The vacant presidential chair in the University was tempo- 
 rarily and ably filled by Professor Frieze, who had been elected 
 Acting President, but who like Caesar put away the crown 
 and refused to become permanent President ; and when, after 
 an interval of a year and a half, it was learned that perhaps 
 Dr. Angell might favorably entertain a proposal to become 
 the head of the University, I had the good fortune to open a 
 correspondence with him which resulted in his presenting 
 the terms of his acceptance. Finally, in February, 1871, the 
 proposition was laid before the Board of Kegents, and he was 
 promptly and unanimously elected, to the signal satisfaction 
 of the University Faculty and the friends of the institution 
 throughout the State. 
 
 Dr. Angell, in our conference at Burlington, had desired to 
 know just what relation our University held to the State. He 
 frankly said : " State universities have not always been a suc- 
 cess. What have you to say for your own in that regard?" 
 I said to him in reply that the relation of the University to 
 the State, in Michigan, was somewhat unlike that held by 
 other universities to their respective States ; that the Consti- 
 tution of our State had conferred the control of the University 
 upon a Board of Regents elected especially for that purpose, 
 and that they were its real legislature. I also endeavored 
 to point out the accepted theory in the internal management 
 of the institution, that it was conformed to the old motto on 
 the seal of Michigan Territory, Fit surculus arbor ; that the 
 University was something planted with a design to grow and 
 develop of itself, without depending wholly upon outward di- 
 rection. I endeavored to show further that our Board of Ke- 
 gents was a body of agreeable, self-sacrificing gentlemen, who 
 were supposed by the people who elected them to generally 
 confirm the decrees of the University Senate ; that the several 
 
THE RESPONSES AT THE DINNER. 41 
 
 Faculties and local administrators of the institution were its 
 real managers ; that the eight Regents and I desire to say 
 nothing disparaging to the really valuable service rendered by 
 them in their own sphere were not merely a great conven- 
 ience as lictors to accompany the President and to ornament 
 the platform on Commencement Day, but were extremely use- 
 ful as a shield and protector of the University in its normal 
 development. 
 
 The Regents from the beginning have generally pursued the 
 policy of refraining from too much intermeddling with the in- 
 ternal management of the institution. While they have aided 
 in securing a proper recognition by the State of its obligations 
 to provide for its needs, and have had the duty of electing the 
 professors and other officers of the institution, and have also 
 had the unpleasant task of occasional decapitation turned over 
 to them, yet the principle that the University is to be devel- 
 oped right here upon the soil on which it is planted that 
 it is to have a regular growth like a tree, and is not made 
 like a house has been accepted as a guiding law of its 
 administration. 
 
 In closing, let me say that this University has stood forth 
 for the past generation among the agencies of higher culture 
 as a sort of pioneer. It has been a seeker of unexplored fields. 
 In all Europe to-day you do not find its like, and thirty years 
 ago and less, in all America, it occupied a place apart from all 
 others in its advanced position. In many respects, which I 
 need not enumerate, it has led the way ; it has been copied by 
 others, but still remains the real original from which they have 
 taken their new departure. Its special province has been in 
 the line of exploration ; it has been constantly inspired with 
 a desire to push its banner upon new territory. More than 
 any other University in its time, it has been inspired with the 
 lofty purpose of the great pioneer explorer who, with his five 
 comrades in their bark canoe two hundred and sixteen years 
 ago, passed over the waters of the river Huron that runs at its 
 feet. In the early spring of 1680 this explorer led the first 
 band of white men across the lower Michigan peninsula, skirt- 
 
42 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 ing the present site of our University, which, so fully exempli- 
 fies the spirit of pioneer conquest by which he was animated. I 
 would like to see on the University campus a suitable monument 
 erected to the memory of La Salle, the greatest of all Ameri- 
 can discoverers since Columbus, not only because he spent 
 seven months of his valuable life within the borders of our 
 State, but still more because he represents the genius of the 
 University in the unconquerable resolution by which he sought 
 regions unknown. As Search for Truth has been so impres- 
 sively shown by Lessing to be far more worthy of our desire 
 than Truth itself, so, when the statues of other distinguished 
 men shall adorn the University grounds, let there be among 
 them a remembrance of the renowned explorer of the Huron, 
 which, like the Cam, the Isis, the Seine, and other rivers of 
 the Old World, is entitled to notice from the University lo- 
 cated upon its banks ; and all the more since this institution 
 reflects in such an eminent degree the spirit of the dauntless 
 pioneer who utilized the stream on which it is situated for 
 discovery and for the extension of the area of civilization, a 
 purpose for which the University so distinctly stands, and 
 which gives especial significance to this public, and, I may add, 
 magnificent tribute to its honored President at the close of 
 a quarter of a century of faithful and signally distinguished 
 service. 
 
 ME. HAZARD'S RESPONSE. 
 
 My sole reason for standing here is, that I am a friend of 
 President Angell ; and that friendship runs back for a good 
 many years. It is twenty-five years older than his presidency. 
 I well remember a day in January, 1846, when I entered the 
 old chapel at Brown University, and took my seat in the fresh- 
 man class for the first time : the first term of the year I had 
 not been there, I had been pursuing a partial course ; but 
 that morning a cold, dark morning I went and took my 
 seat in the freshman class, and President Angell (the gentle- 
 man who sits here now was not President then) came forward 
 and greeted me in the most cordial manner. I shall never for- 
 
THE RESPONSES AT THE DINNER. 43 
 
 get the kindly spirit which animated him then, and that same 
 spirit is the spirit which has animated him always through life 
 up to the present time, the spirit which has made him a 
 power in this University and this State ; and I wish to say 
 that that genial spirit is one of the great powers which we 
 should cultivate, and one which he has cultivated so success- 
 fully. I remember very well that occasion, we were boys 
 then ; the remembrance of that time comes over me ; and as I 
 look back with pride upon all that he has done, I feel a pleas- 
 ure in shining by such reflected light. I am proud that I be- 
 long to the same State that he did, to the same college that he 
 did, that we together have gone on through life for these last 
 fifty years as firm friends, and hope we shall continue so to the 
 end. I will not congratulate you on what he has accomplished 
 here. You all know it, you all see it ; but we have here in 
 him this expression of that genial power which has been felt 
 through all this land ; and, while I mourn that he has left the 
 State of Khode Island, I congratulate you that his light shines 
 here, and hope it may continue to shine. 
 
 EX-REGENT CUTCHEON'S RESPONSE. 
 
 You will excuse me if I stand among the boys while I 
 speak ; we are here, the boys of '61. When I was invited 
 to respond on this occasion, I was advised that the sentiment 
 to which I was desired to speak would be, " The Duty of the 
 Alumnus to his Alma Mater." " Duty " is a great word, one 
 of the greatest in our language. Duty implies reciprocal 
 relations, that which is due from one to another. It implies 
 that the one has done something for the other, for which the 
 other is to respond in duty. It is first cousin to that other 
 great word, " ought." And now, speaking of definitions, what 
 is an " alumnus " ? I took pains to look up the definition, 
 and I find that it comes from a Latin word meaning 
 "nourished." What, then, is the duty of the nourished son 
 to the nourishing mother ? I will say, first, that the great 
 duty is to love her, the same as the duty of the natural son 
 
44 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 to the natural mother ; and strongest and most potent in the 
 breasts of the alumni is the sentiment of love to this nourish- 
 ing mother. We come not back here as boys come back to a 
 boarding-house, where they have paid so much a week for their 
 hash ; we come back as to a fireside and an altar. And what 
 is this great University ? We heard it explained this morn- 
 ing. It is not these grounds, these buildings ; it is not these 
 trees, although we come to love all these : it is a love for the 
 men that have taught here, for our classmates and our college- 
 mates. That is the University, the men. That is what 
 brings us back here on these annual occasions. So I say that 
 the first duty we owe to the mother is to love her, to cherish 
 her, to stand by her. And then another duty of all the boys 
 to the Alma Mater, as we go out and scatter through this State 
 and throughout the nation and the world, is to support her, 
 to provide for her. We are her children. Is her roof getting 
 too narrow ? Make it larger. Let us see to it that this Uni- 
 versity is cared for ; let us see to it that the State of Michigan 
 is true to the University of Michigan. Another duty of the 
 alumnus is to look out for and protect the good name and the 
 fair fame of our nourishing mother. Do men assail her ? Do 
 they complain of the taxation necessary for her support ? 
 Then it is the duty of her alumni to stand up and defend her, 
 and say that it is from this fountain that the stream flows out 
 which irrigates, not Michigan alone, but the whole Northwest. 
 That is a duty that we owe, and it makes no difference whether 
 the attack comes from above or below, it is the duty of a son 
 or daughter of this University to stand up in any presence and 
 say that this University has been worth more to the State of 
 Michigan than the State of Michigan has been worth to this 
 University. 
 
 A further duty that we owe, my sisters and my brothers, is 
 to come back once in a while and see the old lady. Come 
 back once in a while and look upon her dear old face again. 
 When I came on the campus in '57 as a freshman, only 
 thirteen classes had gone out from the University. She was 
 then a young University, and she cannot be very old now, for 
 
THE RESPONSES AT THE DINNER. 45 
 
 I am a good deal of a boy still. We don't come back here 
 often enough. The Dean has referred to the fact that at one 
 time 1 had the honor to be a member of the Board of Kegents. 
 I cannot boast, like Eegent Willard, that I was the man who 
 brought President Angell here. I had, however, the great 
 pleasure of being one of those who gave him leave to go out to 
 China and bear the name of this University around the world. 
 Why, my friends, of all the Regents, and of the teaching 
 corps, there is not a single soul here to-day that was here when 
 we boys of '61 entered. They have passed on. We are all 
 passing on ; and it is your duty to come back and see those 
 who remain from time to time. When I first came on these 
 grounds, there was just the old north college and the old south 
 college, four professors' residences, the old medical college, 
 and part of a laboratory. When I came upon the campus to- 
 day with my youngest boy, who graduates to-morrow, there was 
 very little that I could point out that was here when I first 
 came. And although there is a great swarm of young children 
 gathered about her knees, I know the old mother is glad to 
 see the boys whose heads are white. 
 
 I may name some of the men who had much to do in the 
 making of this University. In the Faculty was the stately 
 Tappan, now buried in his far-off grave ; good old Professor 
 Williams, who in after years used to come down to the Board 
 of Regents to shake hands with his " boys," as he said ; and 
 there was the accomplished Frieze, all are gone. And soon 
 we, too, shall be gone, but the mother will remain. This 
 brings me to the last duty to the Alma Mater, and that is, 
 by and by, to remember her in your will. 
 
 MRS. TURNER'S RESPONSE. 
 
 I am reminded on this occasion that, for over half a cen- 
 tury, sons of Michigan have been looking back upon this 
 institution with pride as their Alma Mater. But if this be 
 true of her sons, how much more so during later years has 
 Michigan University been a fostering mother to her daughters ! 
 
46 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 The feeling which they cherish for her is not one of pride only, 
 but of the deepest love and gratitude. For has she not wel- 
 comed and cared for these daughters with an especial favor ? 
 She offered them the long-wished-for opportunity to prove that 
 they could cope with something beyond the " three r's," the 
 trivium of their mothers and grandmothers. She has spread out 
 before them the vast field of knowledge, with the invitation that 
 whoever would might and could. If some of us have not yet 
 passed the danger-signal of a little learning, long ago set up by 
 the English poet, it has been our own fault, not that of our 
 Alma Mater. And when she has bidden her daughters adieu, 
 and sent them forth into life's great issues, has it not been with 
 a blessing most tender and effective ? To exorcise any ghost- 
 like problem of the waning century, into the ear of each, as to 
 some hesitating Horatio, her spirit has breathed the command : 
 " Thou art a scholar, speak to it." Her parting gift, the well- 
 earned credential, has been in itself an open sesame to posts 
 of usefulness and honor before hardly dreamed of ; and the 
 very enjoyments of life have been made richer and more mani- 
 fold by reason of the discipline and the development acquired 
 here. We learned (and is not this the chief object of study ?) 
 that all the " ologies " whatsoever but help to render infinite 
 the possibilities of being, and that true education ends only 
 with life. 
 
 Moreover, doubly fortunate are we, in that it has been our 
 high privilege to enjoy for a quarter of a century the inspira- 
 tion of a living exemplar of the higher education in the person 
 of him who is the Presiding Genius of our University, in 
 whom the virtues that elevate are so happily blended with the 
 graces that adorn, the Christian gentleman and scholar, 
 one whom it is our pleasure to admire, our pride to emulate, 
 our delight to honor. Skilled, however, not only in the inter- 
 pretation of the printed page, but of the human as well, with 
 what wisdom, and tact, and charity, and kindness has he ever 
 guided and counseled, a master of persuasive speech, " from 
 whose tongue words flow sweeter than honey ! " In our quest 
 after the golden treasures of knowledge, what guide could 
 
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 have been more impartial, more considerate, or more skillful ? 
 Difficulties have vanished, trials have been overcome, until, 
 with success assured, we may well have cried out with the 
 Greeks of old, Thalatta, thalatta. 
 
 PRESIDENT ROGERS'S RESPONSE. 
 
 This splendid occasion, unique in the history of the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan, has few precedents in the history of the 
 universities of the United States. That such is the case is 
 due in part to the small number of our institutions that are 
 venerable with age. But it is due in larger part to the small 
 number of men whose talents have been sufficiently command- 
 ing to make possible such an event as the one we commemo- 
 rate. It has been the good fortune of but few to serve for a 
 quarter of a century as the executive head of an American 
 University. The man whom we honor to-day belongs to this 
 galaxy of distinguished men, small in number but great in re- 
 nown. And now we enroll President Angell's name along with 
 those other names, Nott of Union, Hopkins of Williams, 
 Woolsey of Yale, Eliot of Harvard. 
 
 When a man has lived as long and as admirably as has the 
 President of this University, it is well to come together and 
 crown him with laurel, and strew the path before him with 
 roses, and speak kind and appreciative words of him. We all 
 know the great things he has wrought for the University of 
 Michigan. Let us tell him so. We all honor him for what 
 he is, and for what he has done. Let us tell him so. We 
 all recognize him as a prince among college presidents. Let 
 us tell him so. Flowers are not all to be reserved until a man 
 is dead. The fragrance of the flowers is sweeter, and their 
 beauty more comely, when presented to the living, who can 
 sense their odor and their loveliness, than when laid on the 
 casket of the dead, no matter how lovingly you lay them there, 
 nor how many you place there. 
 
 And yet those who know President Angell can understand 
 quite readily that, while the recollection of this day will abide 
 
48 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 with him as one of the most pleasant of all his memories, still 
 the occasion may be not altogether acceptable to him because 
 of these eulogies to which he is compelled to listen, in which 
 case the setting of this day's sun will bring to him a sense of 
 relief. Now if this is the way in which he is disposed to look 
 at it, we can only say to him, as James C. Carter, of New York, 
 said on a similar occasion a few years ago to Dean Langdell of 
 the Harvard Law School, that the fault is all his own and not 
 ours. He easily might have had it otherwise. All he had to 
 do was to have discharged his duties in an ordinary and per- 
 functory manner, and then the tribute now being paid him 
 would have been withheld. But he chose rather to devote his 
 splendid powers and attainments to the building up of this 
 great University which he has so largely made illustrious ; and 
 he ought to have known, if he did not, that there would surely 
 come a day when the sons and daughters of this University, 
 together with the sons and daughters of other universities 
 also indebted to him, would insist on paying their debt of ad- 
 miration and applause, and of saying to him that, during these 
 twenty-five years that he has been the guiding spirit of this 
 University, " the skies of Michigan have been glowing more 
 and more resplendently in the great firmament of learning." 
 
 But we want him to understand, however, here and now, 
 that we praise him, not for the success he has won, not for the 
 name he has made, not because he has held the presidency of 
 this University for twenty-five years, but because of the quali- 
 ties for which he is distinguished, and by which all that he 
 has attained has been made possible of achievement. Magnos 
 homines virtute metimur, non fortuna, said Cornelius Nepos 
 two thousand years ago, and we repeat the words to-day : 
 " We prize great men for their estimable qualities, not for 
 their success." 
 
 President Angell is deserving of our eulogy, not alone be- 
 cause of the distinguished services which he has rendered to 
 the universities and to the cause of education, but also because 
 of the eminent service he has given to the government of the 
 United States in high public office with which he has been 
 
THE RESPONSES AT THE DINNER. 49 
 
 signally honored. Now and then in the history of our coun- 
 try a distinguished educator and scholar has been called from 
 the retirement of his study to the diplomatic service. Harvard 
 can boast that when Webster died it was Edward Everett, 
 a Harvard president, who succeeded him in the office of Sec- 
 retary of State. And not so many years ago a Harvard 
 professor, James Russell Lowell, was sent as Minister to the 
 Court of St. James. In the same way, Andrew D. White, a 
 president of Cornell University, was sent as Minister to the 
 Court of Berlin, and later, in the same capacity, to St. Peters- 
 burg, and is to-day associated with the honored head of Johns 
 Hopkins University in the Venezuelan Commission, on whose 
 findings may possibly depend the peace of two great nations. 
 The University of Michigan may boast that, like Harvard, 
 Cornell, and Johns Hopkins, she too has been honored. As 
 Minister to China, and as one of the commissioners who ne- 
 gotiated the treaty regulating Chinese immigration, and the 
 treaty concerning commercial intercourse and judicial pro- 
 cedure in China, President Angell reflected credit on himself, 
 on the University, and on the country. Again, in 1887-88, 
 when associated with such men as Mr. Bayard, Joseph Cham- 
 berlain, Sackville West, and Mr. Tupper in the Fisheries 
 Commission, he bore himself in a manner that was equally 
 creditable to himself and the nation. 
 
 Time does not permit me to enlarge on the valuable ser- 
 vices which Dr. Angell has rendered to the cause of education 
 in the United States. Speaking here to-day, not simply as 
 an alumnus of this great University, so much beloved by me, 
 but as the representative of another University, and of one 
 not subject to State control, I wish to bear testimony to the 
 fact that there is not a university in the West that has not 
 felt his influence, and is not ready gladly to acknowledge the 
 value of his services. We admire and applaud him. We 
 congratulate the University on his distinguished leadership, 
 and hope that he may continue to lead for years to come. 
 Health, happiness, and length of days to James B. Angell of 
 Michigan ! 
 
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50 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 v 
 
 " Honor and reverence, and the good repute 
 That follows faithful service as its fruit, 
 Be unto him whom living we salute." 
 
 PRESIDENT SPERRY'S RESPONSE. 
 
 I observe that the speakers at last have passed from a state 
 of probation to a state of reprobation. I have decided there- 
 fore to postpone my remarks until the centennial occasion. It 
 seems to me wise to do so, because we shall need the remaining 
 seventy-five years in which to think of something else to say. 
 I suppose that there are times in the lives of us all when 
 we feel that, if the opportunity had been given us, we too 
 might have managed to be great. I have sometimes had the 
 thought creeping into my mind. It calls to mind the story of 
 the Hibernian, who, upon landing from an ocean steamer in 
 New York, saw a diver coming up out of the water, and said : 
 " If I had thought of it soon enough, I would have come that 
 way myself." 
 
 There has been chosen to the leadership of this great Uni- 
 versity a princely man, largely endowed for the magnificent 
 work which God placed in his hands ; and we join, my brother, 
 in the very large satisfaction which has been so freely and 
 fully expressed by the representatives of education of the State 
 here. Old lady Olivet, to be sure, belongs to another parish, 
 and I have not been able to enter into every thought and feel-, 
 ing of the occasion ; still, we feel a large satisfaction. I have 
 heard of a man who once went to the home of his youth, and 
 asked of a resident, " What has become of Smith ? " " Smith ? 
 Smith is dead." " Dead? What was the complaint? " " There 
 was no complaint. Everybody is perfectly satisfied." And 
 that is the feeling which we hold in regard to our brother An- 
 gell of his life here. I have this to say on behalf of the col- 
 leges of Michigan, that President Angell has made it easier 
 for every college president to do right, and harder for us to do 
 wrong. We are indebted to him as a leader in sound learn- 
 ing. We thank God every time his great influence is exerted. 
 
THE KESPONSES AT THE DINNER. 51 
 
 Teach the youth that the proper function of our young men is, 
 not to play baseball as well as it can be played, but as well 
 as it can be done by a scholar and gentleman. We are very 
 grateful that the paternal hand was recently laid upon some of 
 our young brethren to teach them that great truth. 
 
 I have sometimes thought that if we of the smaller colleges 
 had two years of undergraduate work given over to us, you 
 might thereby be strengthened; but if we had two years, 
 we would steal the other two, and I have concluded that it is 
 wise to work each in his own sphere. The Rev. Alexander 
 King came over to this country and was asked to speak about 
 church polity. Very much to the astonishment of the people, 
 he took ground in favor of independency. He said that he 
 had in his parish a man and wife who, though very good peo- 
 ple, would frequently get mad at each other and not speak for 
 two or three days. During one of these periods of silence, 
 Patrick sat on one side of the fireplace smoking his pipe; 
 Bridget sat on the other side of the fireplace smoking her 
 pipe. Between them the cat and the dog were quietly sleep- 
 ing. Bridget, after contemplating the dog and cat for some 
 moments, remarked : " Patrick, don't you think we ought to 
 learn a lesson from these brute beasts, living so loving to- 
 gether?" " Yes," said Patrick, "but just tie them together 
 and see what they '11 do." 
 
 As long as we go our own way, we live in great peace j but 
 the catholicity of spirit and the wisdom which stand at the head 
 of this great University are an inspiration to every one who 
 works in humbler spheres of life. The advice which we give 
 to our honored brother this afternoon is to run onward in that 
 same Christian course in which God has guided him for the 
 last quarter of a century. 
 
52 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 PRESIDENT HARPER'S RESPONSE, 
 
 This has been a day of reminiscences. The reminiscences 
 have been given very largely, however, by those who have been 
 on the inside of the University. Will you allow me, an out- 
 sider, for the moment to continue along the same line ? I do 
 this because I am persuaded that my case is a typical case, 
 and that there are thousands who have come into connection 
 with President Angell indirectly for whom a word should be 
 spoken here to-day. 
 
 I remember, just about the time when President Angell 
 came to Ann Arbor, that my father, a trustee of an Ohio col- 
 lege, put into my hands the catalogue of the University of 
 Michigan, and told me that this institution was one of the great- 
 est institutions in all the West. I remember how I studied that 
 catalogue. That was twenty-five years ago. I remember how, 
 five years later, when I began my work as a teacher, Provi- 
 dence placed me in close connection with a graduate of the 
 first class of the University of Michigan, Fletcher O. Marsh. 
 His influence upon me was very great, not only then, but for 
 twenty years. I remember how, five years later, I found my- 
 self as a colleague of another man who had served long ser- 
 vice, and whose one mistake in life was that he left the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan. I remember having my first interview 
 with President Angell when we met in New York. I remem- 
 ber, only five years ago, when the Commercial Club of Chicago 
 invited the representatives of the universities about Chicago, 
 that President Angell spoke words of warm welcome to those 
 who were coming from the East to the West. I remember also 
 that it was in the city of Ann Arbor, while doing service, that 
 I formally accepted the Presidency of the University of Chi- 
 cago. These are reminiscences of one entirely on the outside, 
 but it shows that many have been brought into close relation 
 with the University of Michigan who have never been mem- 
 bers of the University. 
 
 I take great pleasure in bringing to President Augell the 
 
THE RESPONSES AT THE DINNER. 53 
 
 greetings of the University of Chicago, the greetings of those 
 who are there to-day as students in the University doing grad- 
 uate work, who have come from this University. The Univer- 
 sity of Michigan has sent more to ours than any, except Har- 
 vard, for graduate work. I may also bring the greetings of 
 your alumni in Chicago, who are helping to make the city of 
 Chicago what it is to-day, men whom you should visit, men 
 who should help the University of Michigan. 
 
 I should like to tell you some of the impressions which we 
 have of your president. It has been my privilege to be con- 
 nected with several faculties, and I think that the impression 
 prevails most generally that there is no president of an insti- 
 tution in the United States who has had such close relation- 
 ship with the members of his faculty as the President of the 
 University of Michigan. The presidency of a university is a 
 delicate position. It is difficult oftentimes to maintain close 
 and friendly relations with all members of the faculty. I 
 would hardly dare say it, and yet I am almost inclined to 
 believe that to do so is the exception and not the rule. It is 
 sometimes said that a university president a college presi- 
 dent is not sincere ; that, to put it plainly, it is very diffi- 
 cult for him always to speak the truth. It is said among 
 students and among faculties that of all men the president 
 of a university has the greatest difficulty always to maintain 
 a reputation for veracity. There are reasons for this. It is 
 very easy for the professor who consults the president to read 
 into the words of the president the thoughts of his own heart ; 
 and when matters are not as he would have them, the presi- 
 dent has lied. The one characteristic spoken of most fre- 
 quently in outside circles is the absolute sincerity of President 
 Angell ; and there has been perhaps no other characteristic 
 which has been manifested so clearly and so evidently, unless 
 it is that other of which mention has been made so many times 
 to-day, his ability to accommodate himself to the situation. 
 
 There are many other words which I could wish the oppor- 
 tunity to utter, but in closing may I appeal to you who rep- 
 resent the State of Michigan to do for this noble institution 
 
54 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 what needs to be done? Adopt as the motto of life the words 
 which were uttered a few minutes ago by the representative 
 of the alumni, the work of serving this institution, which is 
 the glory of the State, which has done more for the State than 
 the State has done for it. Who can measure the magnitude 
 of the work ? Who can estimate what it will mean fifty years 
 or one hundred years from now ? And for this, as we have 
 said in our hearts so many times to-day, the State of Michi- 
 gan, the United States, the cause of education in general, is 
 indebted most largely to the man in whose honor we have 
 gathered. May he have long life, and may he have thousands 
 of men who will stand by to hold up his hand ; may he come 
 to the city of Chicago, and secure from that city some of the 
 many millions of dollars that ought to be devoted to the cause 
 of education ! Let him come, and we shall do all for him that 
 can be done for an outsider. 
 
 MR. DICKINSON'S RESPONSE. 
 
 I rise to make a very simple and brief announcement, 
 which we trust may be a small but pleasurable surprise to 
 President Angell and the many who are gathered here on this 
 occasion. But a comparatively short time ago, some good 
 citizens of Michigan who are not alumni, like my friend who 
 sits next me here [Mr. Dexter M. Ferry] , some alumni who 
 are not citizens of Michigan, and some alumni who are, took 
 counsel together to devise some expression of their admiration 
 and regard and their affection for the great educator, the great 
 American, the scholar, statesman, who presides over the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan. In arriving at what should be done 
 within the time at our command, we consulted with the Dean 
 of the Literary Department. He said that no testimonial, he 
 believed, would be acceptable to President Angell that was 
 not laid at the feet of his mistress, the University of Michi- 
 gan. And he said he thought that that would please the 
 President best which would establish some sort of a small 
 fund for the benefit of the University, and the Dean suggested 
 
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 that it be a fellowship possibly, to be called " The President 
 Angell Fellowship." He advised us that the smallest sum re- 
 quired for this purpose would be ten thousand dollars. There 
 has been no canvassing done, no soliciting done, no publicity 
 about the matter ; but, I am pleased to say that, although times 
 are hard, although we have not in copper-producing Michigan 
 the restoration of the old copper cent with free coinage of 
 copper, yet we passed, without solicitation bear in mind, and 
 without canvassing, we passed the ten-thousand-dollar mark 
 some time since ; and we are asking now to retain our sub- 
 scription list, with the ten thousand dollars and upwards al- 
 ready subscribed, until we can double it, nay, while we try to 
 treble it and quadruple it, for the purpose of creating an en- 
 dowment worthy of this rare man of forceful character, learned 
 mind, and sweet spirit whom we honor to-day. 
 
 PROFESSOR WRIGHT'S RESPONSE. 
 
 It is a satisfaction to know that in one thing Michigan 
 patterns after Oberlin. In the inspiring music which we had 
 at the opening exercises, I witnessed the effects of coeduca- 
 tion, and Oberlin introduced coeducation almost a generation 
 before it was introduced here. The success of coeducation in 
 the University of Michigan has been largely due to President 
 Angell's personal efforts. I well remember when President 
 Angell came to his new field of labor. You knew what you 
 were getting, you were not visited by an angel unawares. 
 We bring to you the congratulations of Oberlin for the suc- 
 cessful completion of this quarter century of President Angell's 
 work. 
 
 MR. WRIGHT'S RESPONSE. 
 
 This is a day of fond recollections for the Class of '71. 
 Twenty-five years ago to-day we passed from the halls of this 
 University ; twenty-five years ago President Angell was in- 
 augurated. To us he was a stranger, but after listening to 
 the magic of his inaugural address we felt that the future of the 
 
56 PEESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 University was secure. During the twenty-five years that 
 have elapsed, it has not been necessary for the Class of '71 to 
 return to the University in order to know that it was great 
 and prosperous ; for wherever we have been, we have found 
 graduates of this institution filling places of honor and trust 
 in every corner of this broad land, in the seats of learning, on 
 the bench, at the bar, and in every field of human effort. On 
 coming back to the University we are amazed. When we 
 look around us and see the grand development of the last 
 twenty-five years, it fills us with new zeal for higher education. 
 To us President Angell is no longer a stranger ; he receives 
 from us our heartfelt thanks for the great work that he has 
 been so largely instrumental in carrying forward. 
 
CONGRATULATORY LETTERS AND TELE- 
 GRAMS. 
 
 FEOM a large body of letters and dispatches received by 
 President Angell, by the Chairman of the General Committee, 
 and by the Chairman of the Committee on Invitations, many 
 of which Tfere of a private and personal character, the follow- 
 ing portions have been selected for printing by the Committee 
 on Publication, to whose direction the whole matter was en- 
 trusted. 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT LOUDON. 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, June 16, 1896. 
 
 I regret very sincerely that unavoidable engagements here render 
 it impossible for me to be present at the anniversary celebration in 
 honor of President Angell. Permit me to add my heartiest con- 
 gratulations on the auspicious occasion both to the University of 
 Michigan and to President Angell, for whose learning, eloquence, 
 and administrative skill I entertain the very greatest admiration, and 
 whose personal friendship I consider it a distinguished honor to enjoy. 
 
 J. LOUDON. 
 
 CABLEGRAM PROM CHANCELLOR SMITH, OF McGILL UNIVERSITY. 
 
 LONDON, June 23, 1896. 
 
 I regret exceedingly that I am unable to attend the celebration of 
 President James Burrill Angell to-morrow. McGill University sends 
 cordial greetings. 
 
 DONALD SMITH. 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT HYDE. 
 
 BOWDOIN COLLEGE, BRUNSWICK, ME., 
 June 6, 1896. 
 
 President Hyde congratulates the Eegents and Senate of the Uni- 
 versity upon the twenty-fifth anniversary of the presidency of Dr. 
 
 OF THE 
 
 UNIVERSITY 
 
58 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 Angell, a presidency which ranks with that of President Eliot as 
 among the most important contributions thus far made to the cause 
 of higher education in America, and regrets that the coincidence 
 of the celebration and the Bowdoin Commencement prevents him 
 from being present. 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT BUCKHAM. 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, BURLINGTON, 
 June 13, 1896. 
 
 It would be a great neglect of duty, and a great wrong to our own 
 feelings, if this University were to have no part in the proceedings in 
 honor of one to whom we owe so much, and whom we all so admire 
 and love. The five years of your term of office were memorable 
 years in the history of this University. The war had left it, in the 
 expressive phrase of Scripture, " scattered and peeled." Those of 
 us who stood by it were only a remnant. You brought to us new 
 life, hope, enthusiasm, and patient energy, and from the day of your 
 inauguration we all felt that the old College had entered on a new 
 career. Your leaving us was a matter of deep regret, but we knew 
 that the regret was mutual. But though a quarter of a century has 
 elapsed since you left us, you and your work here have not been for- 
 gotten. On all public occasions we always couple your name with 
 those of our "founders and benefactors." We have followed you 
 in your larger career, academic and diplomatic, with interest and 
 pride. We join most heartily in the felicitations of this anniversary, 
 and we wish to you and to Mrs. Angell many years, not of dignified 
 and happy repose, though you have earned them, but many years 
 more of happy and beneficent work. 
 
 M. H. BUCKHAM. 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT CARTER. 
 
 WILLIAMS COLLEGE, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS., 
 June 15, 1896. 
 
 Twenty-five years is a very long time to keep the helm of a great 
 university. I should like to come out and help honor you for such a 
 prolonged and noble work as you have done. I cannot come, but I 
 bid you godspeed, and believe in you with all my heart. 
 
 FRANKLIN CARTER. 
 
LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS. 59 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT CAPEN. 
 
 TUFTS COLLEGE, MASS., May 29, 1896. 
 
 I regret that duties incidental to the Commencement of Tufts 
 College will prevent me from attending the celebration of the twenty- 
 fifth anniversary of the presidency of James B. Angell. Please ten- 
 der to President Angell my earnest and heartfelt congratulations for 
 his long and brilliant service to the higher education. 
 
 E. H. CAPEN. 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT SEELTE. 
 
 SMITH COLLEGE, NORTHAMPTON, MASS., 
 May 19, 1896. 
 
 I regret that, in consequence of other engagements, I cannot accept 
 the invitation of the Regents and Senate of the University of Michi- 
 gan to attend the celebration of the work its honored President has 
 accomplished during the last twenty-five years. I do, however, 
 heartily congratulate them upon the conspicuous ability with which 
 he has advanced, not only the interests of the University over which 
 he worthily presides, but also the interests of the higher education 
 elsewhere, so that many other institutions of learning have become 
 his debtors. 
 
 L. CLARK SEELYE. 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT HALL. 
 
 CLARK UNIVERSITY, WORCESTER, MASS., 
 June 1, 1896. 
 
 Mr. G. Stanley Hall desires to express great regret that other en- 
 gagements will make it impossible for him to be present at the cele- 
 bration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the presidency of James 
 Burrill Angell on June twenty-fourth. He desires, however, to con- 
 vey most hearty congratulations upon the leadership among State 
 Universities which Michigan has assumed throughout this remarkable 
 presidency. 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT WALKER. 
 
 INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BOSTON, MASS., 
 May 28, 1896. 
 
 President Walker very deeply regrets that absence from the 
 country on the twenty-fourth of June will prevent his attending the 
 
60 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 most interesting exercises commemorative of the twenty-fifth anni- 
 versary of the inauguration of President Angell. 
 
 The occasion is one of deep interest to American scholarship. No 
 friend of high learning, no friend of popular education, can fail to 
 rejoice that President Angell has been permitted to round out this 
 quarter century of splendid service, not to the University of Michi- 
 gan, but to the country. 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT MENDENHALL. 
 
 WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, 
 WORCESTER, MASS., June 10, 1896. 
 
 I regret very much that it will be impossible for me to be present 
 at the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the presidency 
 of Doctor Angell. 
 
 Unfortunately it comes at a season when nearly every man en- 
 gaged in educational work is imperatively required to be at home, 
 and I am sure this fact will prevent many from personally joining in 
 extending their congratulations to your distinguished leader on the 
 completion of a quarter of a century of splendid service to the insti- 
 tution which he and his colleagues have made the foremost of its 
 kind in the entire country. 
 
 The problem of the State University has been continually nearer 
 complete and final solution in Michigan than elsewhere ; and not 
 only the people of that State, but the intelligent public everywhere, 
 and especially all concerned in the educational interests of the whole 
 people, owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. Angell for his work of the 
 last twenty-five years. 
 
 T. C. MENDENHALL. 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT ANDREWS. 
 
 BROWN UNIVERSITY, PROVIDENCE, R. I., 
 
 May 21, 1896. 
 
 I write to express to you the pain I feel that I cannot be with you 
 at Ann Arbor when you celebrate the rounding up of your quarter 
 century of work at the University of Michigan. 
 
 I have the greatest admiration for your work in Michigan, which 
 has done so much to render your University what it is, probably on 
 the whole the most influential seat of learning on this continent. I 
 desired to attend the celebration to testify to the immensity of the 
 good you have done for American education and high citizenship. 
 
LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS. 61 
 
 I beg to assure you of my heartiest good will, and of my desire that 
 you may be spared yet a good many years to continue your educa- 
 tional service to America and to the world. 
 
 E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS. 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT DWIGBT. 
 
 YALE UNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, CONN., 
 June 16, 1896. 
 
 Unfortunately for me, the day of your anniversary is the day of 
 our Commencement, and for this reason I cannot be present on the 
 twenty-fourth to congratulate you in person on the happy completion 
 of your twenty-five years in the presidency of the University of 
 Michigan. I beg you, however, to accept my congratulations as I 
 send them to you in this brief letter. 
 
 You have certainly every reason to take great satisfaction in your 
 review of these years, and of the work for your own institution and 
 for the cause of education which you have done. Your term of 
 office has been a long one, but you may look forward to the coining 
 years with the most pleasant anticipations. I trust that the pleasures 
 of memory and of hope may be equal as you pass through your 
 anniversary season, and that you may realize, in the many expressions 
 of gratitude and honor which come to you from your former and 
 present pupils, the rich reward of your life as a teacher and admin- 
 istrator. 
 
 TIMOTHY DWIGHT. 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT LOW. 
 
 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 
 IN THE CITY OP NEW YORK, 
 May 23, 1896. 
 
 I am exceedingly sorry that the date set for celebrating the 
 twenty-fifth anniversary of your presidency makes it impossible for 
 me to be present. It is a personal disappointment to me that I can- 
 not shake you by the hand on that day, and thank you for your 
 services to the country, while congratulating you on the splendid 
 record of your presidency. I am sure you will believe, however, that 
 no one who may be present will rejoice more sincerely than I in the 
 happy features of this most interesting occasion. 
 
 SETH Low. 
 
62 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT MxcCRACKEN. 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 
 
 June 26, 1896. 
 
 I send belated but none the less sincere and hearty congratulations 
 upon your completion of a quarter of a century in the presidency of 
 the University of Michigan. The twentieth century will, I believe, 
 look back at the thirty years following our Civil War as the period 
 of university organization in America. The narrow college handed 
 down from colonial times has given way in this period to universities 
 which rival the foundations of the Old World. The University of 
 Michigan has been one of the vanguard, and to you it has fallen to 
 be her successful leader. May you have another quarter of a cen- 
 tury to see the thorough systematizing of university work throughout 
 America ! 
 
 HENRY MITCHELL MACCRACKEN. 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT TAYLOR. 
 
 VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., 
 June 12, 1896. 
 
 I cannot be present at the celebration of your twenty-fifth anni- 
 versary, but I shall be with you " in spirit." Be sure that your own 
 graduates are not the only ones who can speak truthfully of the inspi- 
 ration of your life and work to them. Some of us who have only 
 known you in later days are the happier and better for that know- 
 ledge, and find in your example, in your work, and in your cheer, 
 great encouragement and inspiration. 
 
 May every blessing rest upon you, not only in these glad days of 
 universally expressed appreciation, but in all the days of work and 
 care which may follow, and may you be long preserved to us, who 
 value you more for what you are than for the great work you have 
 been able to do ! 
 
 JAMES M. TAYLOR. 
 
 TELEGRAM FROM PRESIDENT PATTON. 
 
 PRINCETON, N. J., June 24, 1896. 
 
 I regret exceedingly that I am unable to be present to-day at the 
 celebration in honor of President Angell. I rejoice with the Regents 
 and Senate on the great work which their University has done in the 
 
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 cause of the higher education during Dr. Angell's presidency. I 
 congratulate President Angell on the results of his brilliant adminis- 
 tration, and hope and pray that many years of public service are still 
 before him. I join with his many friends throughout the land in 
 expressing my admiration of his Christian character, and my cordial 
 appreciation of his eminent public service as teacher, diplomatist, and 
 administrative head of a great university. 
 
 FRANCIS L. PATTON. 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT SCOTT. 
 
 RUTGERS COLLEGE, June 20, 1896. 
 
 I regret extremely that family cares following close on college 
 duties will not permit me to be one in the multitude of those who will 
 gather at Ann Arbor next week to express in person their sense of 
 the value of what you have done all your life for " the things which 
 are more excellent," and particularly during the past twenty-five 
 years. Those who desire what is best in education and for the land 
 will never fail to recount the gain coming to them from the paying 
 out of your life in their service. 
 
 You said once of Rutgers College that it had an honorable record. 
 You know that, founded in 1766, it represented one of the elements 
 which began the making of our country, one whose influence has 
 been quiet, but active and continuous, the Dutch. The, Board of 
 Trustees at the meeting on Tuesday last, as a token of the high honor 
 in which they held you, voted unanimously to confer upon you the 
 degree of Doctor of Laws, the best gift in their power. I enclose 
 a copy of the act as it appears on their minutes. 
 
 Pray receive, as your twenty-fifth year of service in Michigan is 
 completed, my warmest congratulations, and my best wishes that 
 your years may be many, and all blessed with the richest blessing of 
 God. 
 
 AUSTIN SCOTT. 
 
 \_Enclosure.~] 
 
 Unanimously voted, That the degree of Doctor of Laws be con- 
 ferred upon James Burrill Angell, President of the University of 
 Michigan, in recognition of the great work he has done during the 
 last twenty-five years in conducting the affairs of one of the largest 
 and most influential institutions of learning in the land, and of his 
 eminent services in the discharge of duties in the high offices en- 
 trusted to him by his country. 
 
64 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 FROM PROVOST HARRISON. 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA, 
 May 18, 1896. 
 
 Provost Harrison regrets that the exigencies of the closing term 
 of the University render it impossible for him to accept the polite 
 invitation of the Regents and Senate of the University of Michigan 
 to attend the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the presi- 
 dency of Dr. James Burrill Angell. He begs to express to the Re- 
 gents, the Senate, and the President his sincerest congratulations on 
 this happy event ; and to enclose the expression of official greeting 
 from the University of Pennsylvania. 
 
 [Enclosure.] 
 
 The Trustees and Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania 
 tender to the Regents, the Senate, and the Faculties of the Univer- 
 sity of Michigan their most cordial congratulations on the occasion of 
 the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the presidency of 
 Dr. James Burrill Angell, to whose learning, wisdom, and energy the 
 University of Michigan so largely owes its present commanding 
 position among the institutions of learning in our land. May Presi- 
 dent AngelFs life and health be long preserved, that for many happy 
 years to come he may guide and guard the interests of the University 
 which he has so long served, and promote the cause of that higher 
 education to which he has consecrated his most fruitful life. 
 
 FROM LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 
 
 EASTON, PA., June 22, 1896. 
 
 The President and Faculty of Lafayette College send their hearti- 
 est greetings to President Angell upon the completion of twenty-five 
 years of such splendid service to the cause of higher education, and 
 regret that they are unable to be represented personally upon the 
 occasion of the celebration of this happy period. 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT DROWN. 
 
 THE LEHIGH UNIVERSITY, SOUTH BETHLEHEM, PA., 
 May 26, 1896. 
 
 President AngelTs great work in education at the University of 
 Michigan has made all American scholars his debtors, and I rejoice 
 
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 in the opportunity of adding my voice to the mighty chorus of con- 
 gratulation which will greet him and the University on this happy 
 day. 
 
 T. M. DROWN. 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT OILMAN. 
 
 THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, BALTIMORE, 
 June 20, 1896. 
 
 It is a great disappointment to me that many circumstances be- 
 yond my control deprive me of the pleasure of being present at this 
 celebration. 
 
 I should like to congratulate you personally that, notwithstanding 
 your arduous service, you have kept, with your health and strength, 
 your good spirits. I have just read of William Samuel Johnson, 
 once President of Columbia College, that he resigned at the age of 
 seventy-four, retired to his native village, and lived to enter upon his 
 ninety-third year, " retaining to the last his vigor and activity of 
 mind, the ardor of his literary curiosity, and a most lively interest 
 in whatever concerned the welfare of this country and of the Chris- 
 tian world." I think you will follow this example, only I hope 
 you will take the round hundred years, provided your health con- 
 tinues. 
 
 Then I should like to congratulate you officially on the success of 
 your career. The skill with which you have maintained high stand- 
 ards of education, while you have kept in close touch with the people ; 
 the recognition that you have secured for the State of Michigan ; 
 and the important services which you have rendered to the country 
 at large as a diplomatist, give great distinction to your career, and 
 secure for you a place in the highest rank of men who have con- 
 tributed to the advancement of American universities. 
 
 D. C. GELMAN. 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT WHITMAN. 
 
 THE COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C., 
 June 2, 1896. 
 
 I beg to acknowledge with thanks, for the Columbian University, 
 the very courteous invitation of the University of Michigan to be 
 represented at the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 
 presidency of Dr. Angell. While not able to be personally repre- 
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66 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 sented, we beg you to be assured of the deep interest we feel in this 
 noteworthy event, and to accept our congratulations for the Univer- 
 sity, and for the distinguished scholar and leader who has had so 
 large a part in its great record of usefulness. 
 
 B. L. WHITMAN. 
 
 FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 
 
 CHAPEL HILL, Nay 18, 1896. 
 
 The President and Faculty of the University of North Carolina 
 extend to the Regents and Senate of the University of Michigan 
 their congratulations on the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniver- 
 sary of the presidency of James Burrill Angell. They regret their 
 inability to attend on this interesting occasion. 
 
 They greatly rejoice in the extension and expansion of the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan. 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT CANFIELD. 
 
 Omo STATE UNIVERSITY, COLUMBUS, 
 May 20, 1896. 
 
 Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to join with others 
 in extending to the University and to the State, and to the cause of 
 public and free education, my congratulations upon the continuance, 
 with full power, of the work of Dr. Angell. His labors, like his 
 presence, are a perpetual benediction. I hope and pray that he may 
 be spared for another quarter of a century to the cause of higher 
 learning and sound training in this country. 
 
 JAMES H. CANFIELD. 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT SCHAPMAN. 
 
 DETROIT COLLEGE, DETROIT, 
 May 16, 1896. 
 
 I regret exceedingly that the Commencement exercises of Detroit 
 College, which are to be held on the same day, will render it impossible 
 for me to attend this anniversary celebration. I can assure you that 
 nothing would afford me greater pleasure than to add by my presence 
 to any occasion which does honor to one who has contributed so 
 largely, by his learning and experience, to the higher educational 
 interests of our country. That he may be preserved to us ad 
 multos annos in his present field of usefulness, and that the institu- 
 
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 tion over which he has presided for so many years and with' such 
 marked distinction may continue to accomplish in the future the 
 splendid work which has made it so justly famous in the past, is the 
 jubilee congratulation and best wish of 
 
 HENRY A. SCHAPMAN, S. J. 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT KOLLEN. 
 
 HOLLAND, MICH., June 23, 1896. 
 
 Hope College sends greeting to the University of Michigan, the 
 pride of our great State ; and we most heartily congratulate Presi- 
 dent Angell on his most successful administration. 
 
 G. J. KOLLEN. 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT JESSE. 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI, COLUMBIA, 
 May 23, 1896. 
 
 It would give me great pleasure to be present at the celebration of 
 the twenty-fifth anniversary of the presidency of Dr. Angell on the 
 twenty-fourth of June, but I have an engagement at this time which 
 it is impossible for me to break. 
 
 President Angell has not only rendered inestimable service to the 
 cause of education in the United States, but he has made himself 
 personally dear to all who have had the privilege of knowing him. 
 Under his administration the University has gone beyond the limits 
 of the State, and has permeated the nation with its good work. It 
 is fitting that the twenty-fifth anniversary of this noble service should 
 be celebrated. I regret exceedingly that it is not in my power to 
 be present and help to do honor to him and the University that he 
 has led to greatness. 
 
 R. H. JESSE. 
 
 FROM CHANCELLOR CHAPLIN. 
 
 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, ST. Louis, Mo., 
 June 9, 1896. 
 
 A formal statement of regret that I cannot accept the invitation 
 of the Regents and Senate of the University of Michigan to be 
 present at the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 
 presidency of President Angell would not adequately express my 
 feelings. Imperative engagements will require my presence here at 
 that time. 
 
68 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 I wish to express my great appreciation of President AngelFs 
 service to education in general, and to that form of education repre- 
 sented by state universities in particular. The success of Michigan 
 University has been an example, a stimulus, and an inspiration to all 
 other educational establishments. Indeed, what question in educa- 
 tional circles, or what advance in educational matters, has there been 
 where the powerful influence of Michigan University, represented 
 by President Angell, has not had its part ? 
 
 I congratulate you and the State of Michigan on the long and dis- 
 tinguished service of President Angell, and I wish for him and you 
 a long continuance of his labors. 
 
 W. S. CHAPLIN. 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT SNOW. 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, LAWRENCE, 
 June 22, 1896. 
 
 I greatly regret my inability to attend the exercises in celebra- 
 tion of your quarter-centennial of personal service to the University 
 of Michigan. Accept my hearty congratulations upon the distin- 
 guished success with which your educational labors have been 
 crowned, and my sincere hope that you may be able to continue your 
 benefactions to the University for many years to come. Allow me 
 also to congratulate Mrs. Angell, whose constant cooperation has 
 aided essentially in securing for you a long and prosperous adminis- 
 tration. 
 
 F. H. SNOW. 
 
 FROM PRESIDENT BAKER. 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER, 
 June 18, 1896. 
 
 I regret that I cannot be present at the celebration of the twenty- 
 fifth anniversary of Dr. Angell's presidency. There is no university 
 I would sooner visit, no occasion I would sooner share in celebrating, 
 no man to whom I would more gladly pay my respects. 
 
 Michigan University has a great history, one that is an example 
 and an encouragement to her younger sisters ; and President Angell 
 has been a most important part of that record. 
 
 Please convey to President Angell from the Regents and Facul- 
 ties of the University of Colorado good will and congratulations and 
 
 best wishes. 
 
 JAMES H. BAKER. 
 
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 FROM PRESIDENT KELLOGG. 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, 
 May 23, 1896. 
 
 It would give me great pleasure to be present at the anniversary 
 celebration of June twenty-fourth. But distance and duties in my 
 own State forbid. 
 
 I congratulate President Angell on the completion of a quarter 
 century of service in the great University over which he has so ably 
 presided. And I congratulate the University of Michigan on the 
 continued service of one who has done so much to forward its inter- 
 ests and to enhance its renown. 
 
 MARTIN KELLOGG. 
 
 FROM GOVERNOR RICH. 
 
 LANSING, June 18, 1896. 
 
 I regret that circumstances of a peculiar nature compel me to 
 cancel my engagement to be present at the twenty-fifth anniversary 
 of Dr. Angell's presidency of the University of Michigan. I regret 
 this very much, as I had anticipated much pleasure in attending. I 
 should be very glad to pay my respects to Dr. Angell, not only on 
 account of my personal friendship, but because of the ability which 
 he has displayed as president. During that time of service he has 
 conformed to the requests of each of the political parties, who asked 
 for his services on account of his peculiar fitness for the position, 
 which service he has performed with great honor. 
 
 His worth has been clearly demonstrated in his learning, in his 
 executive ability, and in his tact in meeting difficulties during his 
 term of service, wherein he has seen the University grow from a 
 small institution to stand among the foremost not only in the United 
 States but in the world. 
 
 I desire to express to Dr. Angell and the friends assembled my 
 sincere congratulations upon his being able to celebrate his twenty- 
 fifth anniversary under such favorable and auspicious circumstances. 
 
 JOHN T. RICH. 
 
 FROM EX-REGENT BURT. 
 
 I 
 MARQUETTE, MICH., June 22, 1896. 
 
 It is with the keenest regret that I am compelled at this last mo- 
 ment to recall my acceptance of the invitation to be present on the 
 
70 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 twenty-fourth instant. It is an event in which I could participate 
 with unalloyed pleasure, save for the vacant chairs that must be set 
 for the four eternally absent ones, Stockwell, Estabrook, Gilbert, and 
 Walker, who, with Sweezey, Willard, McGowan, and myself, con- 
 stituted the Board of Regents which called Dr. Angell into the connec- 
 tion with the University that has continued so long and so happily 
 as to make the celebration of it an event in the history of the great 
 institution second only in importance to the Semi-Centennial. 
 
 I recall no act of my life with the results of which I feel so great 
 satisfaction as the vote I gave Dr. Angell when called upon to choose 
 a successor to the two great men, Tappan and Haven, his immediate 
 predecessors. An intimate acquaintance with these two men im- 
 pressed me, as I believe it did the other members of the Board of 
 Regents, with such a sense of the responsibility that more than two 
 years' consideration was given before choice was finally made. 
 
 I recall with interest some of the important questions with which 
 the Board of Regents had to deal during that era of liberalizing, 
 1868-76, such as state aid, homoaopathy, opening the doors to women, 
 which received their initiatory settlement during that period. Always 
 optimistic, I then anticipated a rapid growth in number, position, 
 and influence ; but as I compare the then and the now, I see another 
 striking illustration of the futility of forecasting the future, as re- 
 spects my own loved State at least, in its educational as well as its 
 material development. 
 
 Long life and happiness to President and Mrs. Angell, and a con- 
 tinuance of the relationship so fittingly celebrated, until its com- 
 memoration be written in letters of gold upon tablets of silver ! 
 
 HIRAM A. BURT. 
 
 TELEGRAM FROM EX-REGENT GROSVENOR. 
 
 JOKESVILLE, MICH., June 23, 1896. 
 
 It is a great disappointment to me that I am unable to be with 
 you on the twenty-fourth and evidence by my presence the respect 
 and esteem I entertain for Dr. Angell as citizen and man, and 
 also my very high appreciation of the great value of his services to 
 our State and University for the last quarter of a century. 
 
 E. 0. GROSVENOR. 
 
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 FROM EX-REGENT JOY. 
 
 DETROIT, May 22, 1896. 
 
 Hardly anything could give me greater pleasure than to be able, 
 with his hosts of friends, to congratulate President Angell on the 
 twenty-fifth anniversary of his splendidly successful administration 
 as president of the affairs of the University. 
 
 But I have now for two or three years been compelled to decline 
 being present at public meetings even in Detroit, both from a partial 
 loss of my voice and from my inability to hear speakers on such 
 occasions ; and I am constrained, reluctantly, to decline attending 
 the meetings of this anniversary. But I do, nevertheless, congratu- 
 late President Angell with all my heart on the magnificent progress 
 of the University during the quarter of a century of his care of it, in 
 which it has become one of the leading and great universities of the 
 world. 
 
 JAMES F. JOT. 
 
 FROM EX-REGENT WILLETT. 
 
 PASADENA, CAL., June 17, 1896. 
 
 As the date of the twenty-fifth anniversary of your inauguration 
 approaches, I am reminded of the situation at Ann Arbor during 
 the two years preceding that time. Our beloved Professor Frieze, 
 as Acting President, was laboring beyond his strength in the duties 
 of his position, endeavoring to find the way to success between con- 
 tending factions, and, above all, using his influence towards the 
 selection of the right man for president. The undergraduates, 
 especially the upper classes, were exceedingly interested in the 
 situation. As an illustration, I quote from an article published in 
 " The Chronicle " of March 12, 1870 : " The presidency has been 
 vacant since last June ; it has been offered to several gentlemen, but 
 declined, and the all-important question is still unanswered, Who is 
 to be our next President ? . . . No weak and vacillating man, no 
 man easily turned from a well-considered purpose by the criticisms 
 of weak minds, no man who depends on the support or approval of 
 others, no man without a just and high appreciation of the aims and 
 needs of the University, can conduct it victoriously through difficul- 
 ties and dangers, and give it a prominent place in the foremost 
 rank." 
 
72 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 The impression gained ground among the students that you were 
 the man best prepared to fulfill the requirements of the situation. 
 Hence, when Professor Frieze announced that you had declined the 
 position, there was great disappointment, which was changed to joy 
 only when the news came at last that you had reconsidered the mat- 
 ter and would accept. The Class of 1871 was especially favored in 
 that your inauguration was fixed for the date of its graduation, and 
 that the inaugural was to be followed by the presentation of diplomas 
 through your hands. Since that day, my thoughts have ever turned 
 with interest towards the University and with gratification to your 
 incumbency. With better opportunities for judging than have come 
 to many, I desire to say now that the wonderful prosperity which 
 my Alma Mater has enjoyed for the past twenty-five years is in the 
 highest degree due to your distinguished services. 
 
 Allow me to congratulate you, on behalf of myself and the alumni 
 on this coast, upon the successful close of your quarter century of 
 service, and to express the hope that you may be able for many years 
 to guide the University on its forward course. 
 
 CHARLES J. WILLETT. 
 
 TELEGRAM FROM EX-GOVERNOR ALGER. 
 
 DETROIT, MICH., June 24, 1896. 
 
 A long, happy, and continued life of usefulness to you ! My best 
 congratulations upon this your silver anniversary with the Uni- 
 versity. 
 
 RUSSELL A. ALGER. 
 
 FROM EX-SENATOR PALMER. 
 
 LARCHMONT MANOR, N. Y., June 17, 1896. 
 
 It seems now impracticable for me to be at the Commencement of 
 the University, which I much regret, the more so on account of 
 the proposed compliment to President Angell. 
 
 I know of no man who is better entitled to the consideration of the 
 people of our State than he. He has worked for many years, a part 
 of the time under the most discouraging conditions, for the good of 
 the University, which he has brought to a position where it is the 
 chief glory of the State. In addition thereto, he has conferred honor 
 upon the State by the manner in which he has discharged his duties 
 in diplomacy at the instance of the President of the United States. 
 
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 It seems fitting that our people should emphasize their appreciation 
 of his services by some testimonial of an enduring character. 
 
 THOMAS W. PALMER. 
 
 FROM EX-MINISTER LOTHROP. 
 
 DETROIT, June 23, 1896. 
 
 Though I must have known some time ago that this was your 
 twenty-fifth year of service at the University, yet I was really star- 
 tled when I saw in the papers this morning your admirable bacca- 
 laureate. 
 
 I have no words that will fitly express my regret that I am not 
 able to come to Ann Arbor to pay my respects to Mrs. Angell and 
 yourself personally, and to testify my appreciation of the great work 
 you have done in and for Michigan. But I am really unable to go 
 anywhere or do anything. Only with great difficulty can I shape 
 these few trembling lines to thank you for what you have done, and 
 to express my sincere hope that you may still live many years to pro- 
 long your useful and brilliant work at the University. 
 
 GEORGE V. N. LOTHROP. 
 
 FROM JUDGE SWAN. 
 
 UNITED STATES COURTS, DETROIT, 
 June 23, 1896. 
 
 It is a great disappointment to me that I shall be denied the pleas- 
 ure of personal participation in the assemblage which will observe 
 the twenty-fifth anniversary of your connection with the University of 
 Michigan, which you have honored and enriched by faithful and 
 eminent service. I had looked forward to the occasion with confi- 
 dence that I should enjoy its pleasures, and had made arrangement 
 of my work with special reference to the occasion. The "unex- 
 pected has happened," as always, and I am barred. The only privi- 
 lege which circumstances permit me is this expression of my sincere 
 gratitude that the conduct of our great University has been intrusted 
 to one who has so amply demonstrated his eminent capacity as an 
 educator by the rank which your labors have given to it. In common 
 with the thousands of the children of my Alma Mater who hold 
 you in grateful recollection, I congratulate our State and its noble 
 University on your position and labors, and sincerely hope that you 
 may long be spared to honor and guide the cause of education in 
 
 this Commonwealth. 
 
 HENRY H. SWAN. 
 
74 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 CABLEGRAM FROM MINISTER UHL. 
 
 BERLIN, June 24, 1896. 
 Hearty congratulations to University and to you. 
 
 EDWIN F. UHL. 
 
 FROM BISHOP DAVIES. 
 
 DETROIT, June 16, 1896. 
 
 As I shall be unable to be present at the anniversary celebration 
 next week, I take this opportunity of telling you that I regret ex- 
 ceedingly that I cannot in person offer you my tribute of affectionate 
 homage and sincere congratulation upon the completion of a quarter 
 of a century of service in your exalted position. May the Univer- 
 sity of Michigan and the republic of letters be blessed with your 
 presence for many years to come ! 
 
 THOMAS F. DAVIES. 
 
 FROM BISHOP GILLESPIE. 
 
 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., June 17, 1896. 
 
 I acknowledge with thanks the courteous invitation to be present 
 at the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the presidency of 
 Dr. Angell. My esteem for our distinguished friend would urge my 
 attendance, but I am unable to accept the invitation. 
 
 GEORGE D. GILLESPIE. 
 
 FROM BISHOP NLNDE. 
 
 DETROIT, June 19, 1896. 
 
 I have received your kind invitation to be present at the celebra- 
 tion of President AngelTs twenty-fifth anniversary as the honored 
 head of the University of Michigan. I had the privilege of listening 
 to his inaugural address in 1871, and unless unavoidably detained 
 shall be present on next Wednesday to join with his many friends in 
 extending hearty congratulations. 
 
 W. X. NINDE. 
 
 FROM REV. MARCUS A. BROWNSON. 
 
 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, DETROIT,. 
 June 23, 1896. 
 
 I regret very much indeed my inability to be present on the joyous 
 occasion of to-morrow to offer my word of congratulation in person. 
 
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 With your hosts of admirers and friends all over the country, I re- 
 joice in the magnificent attainments of your quarter-century presi- 
 dency of our University, and I do most heartily desire many years 
 of sustained health and continuous triumphs in the cause of liberal 
 education to be granted to you. Every citizen of Michigan and 
 every friend of advanced scholarship in the land must feel himself to 
 be beneath the obligation of unbounded esteem for your administra- 
 tion of the great trust committed to your care. 
 
 MARCUS A. BROWNSON. 
 
 FROM REV. RUFUS W. CLARK. 
 
 ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, DETROIT, 
 June 16, 1896. 
 
 If there is one thing for which a citizen of Michigan who has watched 
 its history for the past twenty-five years ought to be proud, it is the 
 distinction that the President of the University has given to the State. 
 What he stands for and it has been largely his achievement has 
 been the one thing in which this State of Michigan has been preemi- 
 nent. 
 
 It must be noted here that what we are thankful for is not merely 
 the quarter of a century past, but also the years to come. No man 
 is qualified to register to-day what President Angell has done for 
 men coming upon the stage of action in this State. 
 
 RUFUS W. CLARK. 
 
 FROM REV. WALLACE RADCLIFFE. 
 
 WASHINGTON, D. C., 
 June 20, 1896. 
 
 I regret very much that I cannot be present on Wednesday, June 
 the twenty-fourth, to join in the world- wide congratulations to Presi- 
 dent Angell, and to wish for him and the University many added 
 years of still enlarged influence and success in demonstrating for 
 the State and for humanity that " religion, morality, and knowledge 
 are necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind." 
 
 WALLACE RADCLIFFE. 
 
76 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 FROM EX-PROFESSOR WHITE. 
 
 OFFICE OF THE VENEZUELAN COMMISSION, 
 WASHINGTON, D. C., March 14, 1896. 
 
 The tribute you purpose to pay President Angell is most honor- 
 able to him and to all concerned. He deserves it well. He came 
 into his present position at perhaps the most troubled and trying 
 epoch in the history of the University, and into a body of professors 
 and alumni and a public at large filled with grateful memories and 
 deep regrets for the great man who really laid the foundations of the 
 University, Dr. Henry Philip Tappan. Quietly, and without the 
 slightest ostentation, Dr. Angell took up the vast work, and soon 
 showed himself fully able to cope with all the difficulties of the 
 situation. 
 
 I need not dwell upon the admirable qualities which fit him for 
 his post, and which have given him the great success which he has 
 obtained. They are known to you all. He has secured both the 
 respect and the love of all thinking men to whom the University of 
 Michigan is dear. Under his care, it has far more than realized the 
 most sanguine hopes of its founders and early promoters ; and, while 
 many have borne a noble part in the good work, all will acknowledge 
 that the man who has chiefly inspired and led it during the last 
 quarter of a century is Dr. Angell. Both in administration and in- 
 struction he has proved himself ideally fitted for the position, and he 
 indeed deserves well of Michigan and the whole country. 
 
 Bearing as I do a deep affection for the institution in which I be- 
 gan my work as an instructor, which has so largely extended the 
 circle of my cherished friendships, and which has proved of so much 
 value to me in my work since I left it, I feel a personal debt of grati- 
 tude to him whom you purpose to honor, and join with you most 
 heartily in this tribute so well deserved. 
 
 ANDREW D. WHITE. 
 
 FROM EX-PROFESSOR TYLER. 
 
 CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ITHACA, N. Y., 
 June 12, 1896. 
 
 I do not remember any public event in my time which seems to 
 me to have had in it more of the eternal fitness of things than will 
 attach to the University Jubilee over the completion of the twenty- 
 
LETTEES AND TELEGRAMS. 77 
 
 fifth year of Dr. Angell's presidency. I am sorry that I cannot be 
 at Ann Arbor to share in all these rejoicings. Certainly, if I could 
 be there, I should try to get together once more all who are now left 
 in this world of the company of men and women members of the 
 faculty and their families who, one evening in the autumn of 
 1869, were assembled in the parlors of Dr. Frieze's house to greet 
 for the first time the young President of the University of Vermont, 
 then just arrived on a visit of inspection at the University of Michi- 
 gan, himself often spoken of at that time as the youngest and 
 liveliest college president in existence, a description which I am in- 
 clined to think is applicable to him yet. I shall never forget that 
 evening, or that interview with him. It seems to me as only a thing 
 of yesterday, that, while we were all waiting for our guest to come 
 down stairs, the noise of our mingled voices suddenly stopped as we 
 became aware of his entrance into the room. There is no doubt, 
 that on our part it was a case of love at first sight ; for, though he 
 found himself then unable to accept the call from Michigan, yet so 
 strong and hearty was the impression he made upon all who met 
 him, that no one was able to accept that refusal as final : nor could 
 we, by reason of such refusal, find it in our hearts to turn toward 
 any one else for our future President, a fact, by the way, due in 
 part, no doubt, to the exquisite devotion and efficiency of the brilliant 
 scholar and beloved man who was acting as president in the interval. 
 Of course I distinctly remember the satisfaction that ran through 
 our community when we learned that our patience in waiting for 
 him those two years had been rewarded by his consent to come to us 
 at last in 1871. 
 
 In one respect I feel somewhat entitled to have an opinion as to 
 the men who have helped and hindered in the development of the 
 University ; for, as child and youth and man, I have known it ever 
 since it came into existence. I knew the University in its stormy 
 and tentative and feeble first decade. I was one of the little class of 
 freshmen who entered the University in the fall of 1852, after an 
 examination from which all the expected terrors were removed by the 
 professorial philanthropy of dear old Dr. Williams. A few weeks 
 later, I was one of that crowd of students in the literary department, 
 then numbering as many as fifty -five or sixty men, a mighty 
 host we seemed to ourselves to be, who welcomed the entrance 
 into the Chapel for the first time of President Tappan, at a glance 
 recognizing him as a man born to command and to be obeyed. 
 
78 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 Under the creative touch of that king of men, I saw the petty col- 
 lege grow into a university, the first successful state university in 
 our country, as it still is the greatest one and the model of all the 
 others. 
 
 Doubtless the decade of Dr. Tappan's presidency was, in a very 
 striking sense, the creative period of the University. The six years 
 of the presidency of Dr. Haven were years of needful pacification 
 after controversies that might easily have wrecked all. Then the 
 time had come for a new man to appear upon the scene, wholly 
 detached from all the feuds of the past, and wholly incapable of being 
 the occasion for feuds in the future, for a man who should unite 
 scholarship with common sense, experience with tact, and the power 
 to work and to organize with the power to wait patiently, and to im- 
 part to other men the spirit of harmony and zeal and faith in their 
 work ; for a man who would control and guide the University with 
 so steady, kind, and wise a hand, and for so long a period, as to give 
 mature outward form to the immense latent forces in the University, 
 and consistency as well as strength to the great subdivisions of its 
 work ; finally, for a man who should know how to draw the mind 
 and heart of the noble State of Michigan into permanent affection 
 for the University, and into an abiding confidence in the wisdom and 
 benignity of its management. 
 
 In my opinion, this has been the essence of the great work which 
 James B. Angell has wrought for the University by his quarter of a 
 century in control of its affairs ; and as time goes on, and the true 
 perspective of men's doings in our time becomes clearer, I think that 
 the greatness and the unique value of his noiseless, modest, steady, 
 tactful labors will be still more obvious. 
 
 I may not now speak of my own private gratitude for his official 
 kindness and helpfulness to me. I must, however, be allowed to say 
 this : I have been fortunate in having had to do, as student and 
 teacher, with a line of strong and good college presidents, Tappan, 
 Woolsey, Haven, Frieze, Angell, Andrew White, Adams, and Schur- 
 man ; but under none of them would I more willingly live over again 
 the years that I have passed under such leadership than under that 
 president who is just finishing so gloriously his first quarter of a 
 century in Michigan. 
 
 Long may he stay in command of the same noble old ship ! Our 
 congratulations to him upon his success are to be exceeded only by 
 
LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS. 79 
 
 our thanks to him for the wisdom and goodness and efficiency of his 
 unrivaled services. 
 
 MOSES COIT TYLER. 
 
 FROM EX-PROFESSOR ARNDT. 
 
 SAN DIEGO, CAL., June 9, 1896. 
 
 The happiest years, in one sense, of my life were spent at the 
 University of Michigan, and while there I learned to do full justice 
 to the brilliant executive ability, and worth as a citizen, of its dis- 
 tinguished president. It is, therefore, a matter of sincere regret to 
 acknowledge to myself the impossibility of crossing the continent and 
 by my presence expressing my appreciation of the value of the work 
 done by President Angell, and the hope that he may happily live and 
 work for many years to come. 
 
 H. R. ARNDT. 
 
 FROM EX-PROFESSOR GERRISH. 
 
 PORTLAND, ME., May 25, 1896. 
 
 I greatly regret that duties in connection with the graduation of 
 the medical class in the Maine school will prevent my attending the 
 celebration of President Angell's quarter century in his high office. 
 It is eminently fitting that especial notice should be taken of the event, 
 and it would give me great pleasure to be one of the multitude which 
 will gather to express their admiration and regard for Dr. Angell. 
 
 FREDERICK H. GERRISH. 
 
 FROM SUPERINTENDENT DUFFIELD. 
 
 U. S. COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY, 
 WASHINGTON, D. C., June 22, 1896. 
 
 Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to be present at this 
 celebration of one whom I respect and esteem so highly, and who has 
 fulfilled the duties of his important position so well and worthily. 
 Unfortunately I leave to-night for an extended tour of inspection of 
 both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and I therefore sincerely regret 
 my inability to accept your kind invitation. 
 
 W. W. DUFFIELD. 
 
80 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 FROM MR. CHARLES W. DABNEY. 
 
 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 
 WASHINGTON, D. C., May 26, 1896. 
 
 The University of Michigan is to be congratulated on the fact 
 that Dr. Angell has served it for twenty-five years, for it is largely 
 owing to his wise direction that the institution has attained the 
 position of the great university of the American people. The won- 
 derful growth and magnificent usefulness of the University of Michi- 
 gan is a matter of pride with every friend of education in America ; 
 and every one will, I am sure, wish that Dr. Angell may be spared 
 to this work many years longer, and be instrumental in making the 
 great University still broader and better. 
 
 CHARLES W. DABNEY, JR. 
 
 FROM PROFESSOR HART. 
 
 EASTON, PA., June 15, 1896. 
 
 The University of Michigan easily ranks first among the state 
 universities. That this has come to pass I believe to be due in no 
 small degree to the wise guidance and untiring exertions of Presi- 
 dent Angell. 
 
 On the twenty-fourth of October last we celebrated the fortieth 
 anniversary of Dr. March's coming to Lafayette. These celebra- 
 tions are good for us. They give free vent to the gratitude we all feel 
 towards the men who are leading in the emancipation of humankind 
 through education. 
 
 EDWARD HART. 
 
 FROM PROFESSOR STRONG. 
 
 YPSELANTI, MICH., June 23, 1896. 
 
 As one who had the good fortune to welcome you to the State and 
 to the headship of our growing University twenty-five years ago, I 
 rejoice to-day with my fellow-citizens that the good auguries of that 
 day have been more than realized, and that you are yet with us, in 
 strength andwigor, to carry forward and consolidate the really won- 
 derful work which you have been instrumental in accomplishing. 
 
 E. A. STRONG. 
 
LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS. 81 
 
 FROM PROFESSOR HOLDEN. 
 
 THE LICK OBSERVATORY, 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, 
 
 June 6, 1896. 
 
 I beg to thank you most sincerely for your very welcome invita- 
 tion to be present at the anniversary celebration in honor of Presi- 
 dent Angell, and I deeply regret my inability to be present. I beg 
 you to convey my warmest congratulations to President Angell on 
 the noble work he has accomplished, and to remind him that the Lick 
 Observatory has shown its appreciation of scholars from the Univer- 
 sity of Michigan by choosing four of them as astronomers. 
 
 EDWARD S. HOLDEN. 
 
 FROM THE LICK OBSERVATORY. 
 
 MOUNT HAMILTON, June 18, 1896. 
 
 We beg to congratulate you most heartily upon the completion 
 of a quarter century of distinguished service in behalf of the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan, and to express the hope that the University 
 may remain under your wise administration for many, many years 
 to come. 
 
 W. W. CAMPBELL, '86. 
 W. J. HUSSEY, '89. 
 A. L. COLTON, '89. 1 
 
 FROM MR. EDWARD P. ALLEN. 
 
 YPSILANTI, MICH., June 25, 1896. 
 
 Unable to be present yesterday, I do not propose to let the occasion 
 pass without conveying to you my heartfelt congratulations upon 
 your quarter century of work, fraught with honor to the State, and 
 lasting marks for good upon thousands of young men and women 
 who, scattered everywhere, are in turn bringing credit to yourself 
 and the University, and making the country greater and safer for 
 the training there received. 
 
 Verily "no man liveth to himself," and, where that living shapes 
 for good the hosts who have passed under your training, you have 
 the right to rejoice, and your friends also, and I do. 
 
 EDWARD P. ALLEN. 
 
 1 The absence of Professor Schaeberle's signature is due to the fact that he is 
 
 now in Japan. 
 
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82 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 FROM PROFESSOR BIGELOW. 
 
 CHICAGO, June 15, 1896. 
 
 I am sorry that circumstances will prevent me from participating in 
 the exercises of June twenty-fourth, but I am with you all in delight- 
 ing to honor our noble leader. I believe there is not an alumnus of 
 the University of Michigan on this habitable globe who is not proud 
 of the President of our University. How much he has done for the 
 University of Michigan ! And in such a quiet, unobtrusive, modest 
 way ! 
 
 President Angell deserves all the honors and gratitude that the 
 alumni can bestow and feel. May the day smile upon him and upon 
 all who are there to show him their affection personally, and by rep- 
 resentation of those whose misfortune it is not to be present ! 
 
 MELVILLE M. BIGELOW. 
 
 FROM MR. B. F. BOWER, GENERAL MANAGER OF "THE CINCINNATI 
 
 TRIBUNE." 
 
 CINCINNATI, June 22, 1896. 
 
 It was my fortune to be a student in the Law Department of the 
 University during the early years of President Angell's administra- 
 tion, and during a regrettable period of university affairs. Circum- 
 stances afforded me an exceptional opportunity of observing the 
 manner in which the high and difficult responsibilities of the presi- 
 dency were discharged under the most trying conditions. The 
 splendid ability, delicate tact, and diplomacy of the president im- 
 pressed my student mind as profoundly as his broad culture, deep 
 scholarship, and statesmanship have impressed my more mature 
 mind. The twenty years that have passed since then have increased 
 the respect and admiration which I, in common with all alumni, 
 entertain for him. 
 
 B. F. BOWER. 
 
 FROM PROFESSOR BROWN. 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, 
 
 June 21, 1896. 
 
 I greatly regret that I am unable to reach Ann Arbor in time for 
 the celebration of your quarter-centennial. May I add my little word 
 of congratulation to the many expressions of remembrance and good 
 will that will reach you this week. 
 
LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS. 83 
 
 It is a great thing, it seems to me, for any man to reach such a 
 plane of life that even his casual words are treasured up in other 
 men's memory, and influence other men's lives. I have no doubt 
 that there are many others who recall, as I do, words you have 
 dropped at odd times which have encouraged and helped them. I 
 am especially glad to have had my one year of teaching at the Uni- 
 versity, for all that year I was learning from you. 
 
 ELMER E. BROWN. 
 
 FROM MR. LAWRENCE C. HULL. 
 
 LAWRENCEVILLE, N. J., 
 June 22, 1896. 
 
 Words of praise must have grown dull to you at a time when the 
 whole State of Michigan unites in thanking you for twenty-five years 
 of noble service. But Mrs. Hull and I do wish to send to you and 
 Mrs. Angell our most sincere regrets that we cannot join with the 
 enthusiastic graduates who are happy in the sight of you this week. 
 
 You know that we do not need to tell you how grateful we are to 
 you. We thank you with all our hearts for the great service you 
 have rendered to the State of Michigan and the cause of higher 
 education throughout this country, but still more for the personal 
 inspiration of your noble life, and for the kindly personal interest 
 that you have taken in each of us. You would not be the ideal 
 president that you are, were it not for that gentle, sympathetic na- 
 ture that can forget the larger cares of the institution and remember 
 the personal needs of each student. It is for this that your old 
 students love you. May God spare you for many more years of 
 fruitful service and beautiful life ! 
 
 LAWRENCE C. HULL. 
 
 FROM DR. HURD. 
 
 THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL, 
 BALTIMORE, June 13, 1896. 
 
 I write to express my sincere thanks for your kind invitation to be 
 present at the Augell celebration. I wish it were possible for me to 
 get away, but it seems out of the question. I know of no more 
 grateful task than to undertake a journey to Ann Arbor to attest my 
 admiration for one who has done so much in twenty-five years to 
 build up our beloved University. The State of Michigan and the 
 
84 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 alumni of the University owe him a debt of loyalty and gratitude for 
 his abundant labors. I hope that the week will be one of exceed- 
 ing interest, and that the celebration will be fully worthy the notable 
 event. 
 
 HENRY M. HURD. 
 
 FROM PROFESSOR ALFRED SENJER. 
 
 QUEEN'S COLLEGE, GALWAY, 
 June 13, 1896. 
 
 Professor Senier regrets that he is unable to accept the invitation 
 of the Regents and Senate of the University of Michigan to be 
 present at the celebration of the twenty -fifth anniversary of the presi- 
 dency of Dr. Angell. But as a former student at Ann Arbor, 
 Professor Senier ventures to send his congratulations to President 
 Angell and to the University on this happy occasion. 
 
 FROM PROFESSOR WOODWARD. 
 
 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 
 IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 
 June 16, 1896. 
 
 It is with great regret that I find myself unable, by reason of press- 
 ing engagements here, to attend the celebration of the twenty-fifth 
 anniversary of the presidency of Dr. Angell. This regret is intensified 
 by a deep personal interest growing out of the fact that my class, 
 that of 1872, was the first to graduate from the Department of 
 Literature, Science, and the Arts, under President Angell's adminis- 
 tration. Every member of '72 must rejoice in, and feel to some 
 extent identified with, this celebration. 
 
 Please convey to Dr. Angell my hearty congratulations on the 
 completion of his first quarter century as President of the University. 
 May he yet live long to enjoy the fruits of his untiring devotion and 
 labor in the cause of higher education ! 
 
 R. S. WOODWARD. 
 
OF THE 
 
 UNIVERSITY 
 ^CALIFORWt 
 
 REGENTS. 
 
 LEVI L. BARBOUR. 
 WILLIAM J. COCKER. 
 PETER N. COOK. 
 HENRY S. DEAN. 
 HERMANN KIEFER. 
 FRANK W. FLETCHER. 
 ROGER W. BUTTERFIELD. 
 GEORGE A. FARR. 
 
 JAMES H. WADE, Secretary. 
 HARRISON SOULE, Treasurer. 
 
 THE UNIVEKSITY SENATE. 
 
 JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D. 
 ALBERT B. PRESCOTT, LL. D. 
 REV. MARTIN L. D'OOGE, LL. D. 
 CHARLES E. GREENE, A. M., C. E. 
 JONATHAN TAFT, M. D., D. D. S. 
 WILLIAM H. PETTEE, A. M. 
 JOHN A. WATLING, D. D. S. 
 EDWARD L. WALTER, PH. D. 
 ISAAC N. DEMMON, LL. D. 
 WILLIAM H. DORRANCE, D. D. S. 
 ALBERT H. PATTENGILL, A. M. 
 MORTIMER E. COOLEY, M. E. 
 WILLIAM J. HERDMAN, PH. B., M. D. 
 WOOSTER W. BEMAN, A. M. 
 VICTOR C. VAUGHAN, PH. D., M. D. 
 THOMAS M. COOLEY, LL. D. 
 CHARLES S. DENISON, M. S., C. E. 
 HENRY S. CARHART, LL. D. 
 LEVI T. GRIFFIN, A. M. 
 RAYMOND C. DAVIS, A. M. 
 VOLNEY M. SPALDING, PH. D. 
 
86 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 HENRY C. ADAMS, PH. D. 
 
 BURKE A. HINSDALE, LL. D. 
 
 RICHARD HUDSON, A. M. 
 
 BRADLEY M. THOMPSON, M. S., LL. B. 
 
 ALBERT A. STANLEY, A. M. 
 
 FRANCIS W. KELSEY, PH. D. 
 
 JEROME C. KNOWLTON, A. B., LL. B. 
 
 CHARLES B. NANCREDE, A. M., M. D. 
 
 FLEMMING CARROW, M. D. 
 
 OTIS C. JOHNSON, A. M., PH. C. 
 
 PAUL C. FREER, PH. D., M. D. 
 
 JAMES N. MARTIN, PH. M., M. D. 
 
 NELVILLE S. HOFF, D. D. S. 
 
 GEORGE DOCK, M. D. 
 
 JOHN W. CHAMPLIN, LL. D. 
 
 ANDREW C. MCLAUGHLIN, A. M., LL. B. 
 
 JOSEPH B. DAVIS, C. E. 
 
 ASAPH HALL, JR., PH. D. 
 
 ISRAEL C. RUSSELL, LL.'D. 
 
 WARREN P. LOMBARD, A. B., M. D. 
 
 FLOYD R. MECHEM, A. M. 
 
 JACOB E. REIGHARD, PH. B. 
 
 THOMAS C. TRUEBLOOD, A. M. 
 
 JAMES A. CRAIG, PH. D. 
 
 ALEXIS C. ANGELL, A. B., LL. B. 
 
 OTTO KIRCHNER, A. M. 
 
 ARTHUR R. CUSHNY, A. M., M. D. 
 
 JOHN C. ROLFE, PH. D. 
 
 J. PLAYFAIR McMuRRicn, PH. D. 
 
 HARRY B. HUTCHINS, PH. B. 
 
 THOMAS A. BOGLE, LL. B. 
 
 WILBERT B. HINSDALE, A. M., M. D. 
 
 OSCAR LE SEURE, M. D. 
 
 ROY S. COPELAND, M. D. 
 
 ALFRED H. LLOYD, PH. D. 
 
 GEORGE A. HENCH, PH. D. 
 
 HORACE L. WILGUS, M. S. 
 
 MYRON H. PARMELEE, M. D. 
 
 FREDERICK G. NOVY, Sc. D., M. D. 
 
 GEORGE HEMPL, PH. D. 
 
 EDWARD D. CAMPBELL, B. S. 
 
 FRED M. TAYLOR, PH. D. 
 
 JAMES B. FITZGERALD, M. D. 
 
 PAUL R. DE PONT, A. B., B. S. 
 
THE UNIVERSITY SENATE. 87 
 
 CLARENCE G. TAYLOR, B. S., M. E. 
 
 JOSEPH H. DRAKE, A. B. 
 
 FRED. N. SCOTT, PH. D. 
 
 ALEXANDER ZIWET, C. E. 
 
 GEORGE W. PATTERSON, JR., A. M., S. B. 
 
 FRANK C. WAGNER, A. M., B. S. 
 
 GOTTHELF C. HUBER, M. D. 
 
 ALVISO B. STEVENS, PH. C. 
 JOHN O. REED, PH. M. 
 WILLIAM A. CAMPBELL, B. S., M. D. 
 DEAN C. WORCESTER, A. B. 
 FREDERICK C. NEWCOMBE, PH. D. 
 WILLIAM F. BREAKEY, M. D. 
 
GUESTS AT THE DINNER. 1 
 
 Ephraim D. Adams, A. B., '87. 
 
 Mrs. Ephraim D. Adams. 
 
 Henry C. Adams, A. B. (Iowa 
 
 Coll.), 74. 
 
 Mrs. Henry C. Adams, A. B., '88. 
 George F. Allmendinger, C. E., 78. 
 George W. Allyn, A. B., 72. 
 William H. Anderson, LL. B., '96. 
 William K. Anderson, A. B., '68. 
 Mrs. William K. Anderson. 
 Frank D. Andrus, A. B., 72. 
 Alexis C. Angell, A. B., 78. 
 Mrs. Alexis C. Angell, Lit., 77. 
 James B. Angell, President of the 
 
 University. 
 
 Mrs. James B. Angell. 
 William T. Angell. 
 Frederick W. Arbury, A. B., '83. 
 Henry W. Ashley, A. B., 79. 
 Earl D. Babst, Ph. B., '93. 
 Henry B. Baker, A.M., '90. 
 Floras A. Barbour, A. B., 78. 
 Levi L. Barbour, A. B., '63, Regent. 
 Harrison W. Bassett, A. B., '64. 
 George W. Bates, A. B., 70. 
 Octavia W. Bates, A. B., 77. 
 Benjamin L. Baxter, Ex-Regent. 
 Samuel W. Beakes, LL. B., '83. 
 Junius E. Beal, B. L., '82. 
 Caroline P. Bell, A. B., '85. 
 Wooster W. Beman, A. B., 70. 
 Mrs. Wooster W. Beman. 
 Emily A. Benn, A. B., '83. 
 William W. Bishop, A. B., '92. 
 
 Charles A. Blair, A. B., 76. 
 
 Frederick L. Bliss, A. B., 77. 
 
 Allen P. Boyer, C. E., '71. 
 
 Alvah Bradish, A. M., '52. 
 
 Rev. John W. Bradshaw, A. B. 
 (Middlebury), '69. 
 
 Edgar E. Brandon, A. B., '88. 
 
 William F. Breakey, M. D., '59. 
 
 Mrs. William F. Breakey. 
 
 Frederic F. Briggs, A. B., '93. 
 
 Hugh Brown, A. B., '84. 
 
 William N. Brown, LL. B., 70. 
 
 Mrs. William N. Brown. 
 
 Benjamin F. Buck, A. B., '93. 
 
 Gertrude Buck, B. S., '94. 
 
 Henry F. Burton, A. B., 72. 
 
 Roger W. Butterfield, LL. B., '68, 
 Regent. 
 
 William A. Caldwell, B. S., '96. 
 
 Edward D. Campbell, B. S., '86. 
 
 Mrs. Edward D. Campbell. 
 
 Henry M. Campbell, Ph. B., 76. 
 
 Katherine Campbell, A. B., '90. 
 
 Robert Campbell, LL. B., '93. 
 
 William A. Campbell, M. D., '82. 
 
 Mrs. William A. Campbell, B. S., 
 '92. 
 
 Henry S. Carhart, A. B. (Wes- 
 leyan Univ.), '69. 
 
 Flemming Carrow, M. D. (Colum- 
 bian Univ.), 74. 
 
 Thomas T. Caswell, A. B. (Brown), 
 '61. 
 
 George H. Chaffin, LL. B., '84. 
 
 1 This list is not complete, but it is believed to contain the 
 alumni present. 
 
 of all, or nearly all, the 
 
GUESTS AT THE DINNER. 
 
 89 
 
 Theodore R. Chase, A. B., '49. 
 
 Dwight B. Cheever, B. S., '91. 
 
 Noah W. Cheever, A. B., '63. 
 
 Horatio N. Chute, B. S., 72. 
 
 John E. Clark, A. B., '56. 
 
 Holbrook G. Cleaveland, A. B., 
 '93. 
 
 William J. Cocker, A. B., '69, Re- 
 gent. 
 
 George R Codd, A. B., '91. 
 
 Mrs. James H. Coggeshall. 
 
 Peter Collier, A. B. (Yale), '61. 
 
 Mrs. Peter Collier. 
 
 Alvah N. Collins, M. D., '85. 
 
 Mrs. Alvah N. Collins, Lit., '84. 
 
 Charles E. Conley, A. B., 71. 
 
 Frances C. Cook, B. L., '96. 
 
 Peter N. Cook, LL. B., '74, Re- 
 gent. 
 
 Mrs. Peter N. Cook. 
 
 Charles H. Cooley, A. B., '87. 
 
 Mrs. Mortimer E. Cooley. 
 
 Orville W. Coolidge, A. B., '63. 
 
 Roy S. Copeland, M. D., '89. 
 
 Mrs. Roy S. Copeland. 
 
 Nathan D. Corbin, B. S., '86. 
 
 James M. Crosby, B. S., '91. 
 
 Alfred O. Crozier, LL. B., '86. 
 
 Byron M. Cutcheon, A. B., '61, 
 Ex-Regent. 
 
 Walter A. Cutler, A. B., '92. 
 
 Joseph B. Davis, C. E., '68. 
 
 Raymond C. Davis, A. M., '81. 
 
 Mrs. Raymond C. Davis, Lit., '76. 
 
 Harlow P. Davock, B. S., '70. 
 
 Thomas W. Day, LL. B., '94. 
 
 Elizabeth W. Dean, B. S., '91. 
 
 Henry S. Dean, Regent. 
 
 Isaac N. Demrnon, A. B., '68. 
 
 Mrs. Isaac N. Demmon. 
 
 Charles S. Denison, B. S. (Ver- 
 mont), '70. 
 
 Don M. Dickinson, LL. B., 67. 
 
 Charles Y. Dixon, B. S., '87. 
 
 George Dock, M. D. (Univ. of Pa.), 
 '84. 
 
 Martin L. D'Ooge, A. B., '62. 
 
 Mrs. Martin L. D'Ooge. 
 
 Charles L. Doolittle, C. E., '74. 
 
 William H. Dorrance, D. D. S., '79. 
 
 Edgar M. Doughty, A. B., '90. 
 
 Henry W. Douglas, B. S., '90. 
 
 Joseph H. Drake, A. B., '85. 
 
 Andrew S. Draper, President of the 
 University of Illinois. 
 
 Sidney C. Eastman, A. B., '73. 
 
 William M. Edwards, M. D., '84. 
 
 Charles W. Ellis, B. S., '96. 
 
 Calvin R. Elwood, M. D., '94. 
 
 Herman H. Eymer, B. S., '94. 
 
 Delos Fall, B. S., '75. 
 
 Frank C. Ferguson, A. B., '77. 
 
 Dexter M. Ferry. 
 
 Byron A. Finney, A. B., '71. 
 
 James B. Fitzgerald, M. D. (Tufts), 
 '92. 
 
 John H. Flagg, C. E., '72. 
 
 Frank W. Fletcher, Ph. B., 75, 
 Regent. 
 
 Homer A. Flint, B. S., '61. 
 
 Henry A. Friedman, Ph. B., '93. 
 
 Eugene K. Frueauff, LL. B., 75. 
 
 Franklin B. Galbraith, M. D., '61. 
 
 Frederick L. Geddes, A. B., 72. 
 
 Joseph M. Gelston, A. B., '69. 
 
 Willard C. Gore, Ph. B., '94. 
 
 Herbert J. Goulding, B. S., '93. 
 
 Claudius B. Grant, A. B., '59, Ex- 
 Regent. 
 
 Frederic D. Green, A. B., '92. 
 
 Charles E. Greene, A. B. (Har- 
 vard), '62. 
 
 Carl Grosse, LL. B., '85. 
 
 Dwight M. Guillotte, B. S., '96. 
 
 Abram S. Hall, Ph. B., 76. 
 
 Arthur G. Hall, B. S., '87. 
 
 Asaph Hall, Jr., A. B. (Harvard), 
 '82. 
 
90 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 Louis P. Hall, D. D. S., '89. 
 
 Francis M. Hamilton, A. B., '69. 
 
 Mrs. Francis M. Hamilton. 
 
 Walter M. Hamilton, A. B., '94. 
 
 William W. Hannan, A. B., '80. 
 
 William R. Harper, President of the 
 University of Chicago. 
 
 Samuel S. Harris, A. B., '93. 
 
 William T. Harris, United States 
 Commissioner of Education. 
 
 Walter S. Harsha, A. B., 71. 
 
 John W. Hart, LL. B., '96. 
 
 Sophia M. Hartley, M. D., 75. 
 
 William H. Hawkes, A. B., '87. 
 
 James D. Hawks, Lit., '70. 
 
 Rowland Hazard, A. B. (Brown), 
 '49. 
 
 George Hempl, A. B., 79. 
 
 Mrs. George Hempl, A. B., '87. 
 
 William J. Herdman, Ph. B., 72. 
 
 Percy B. Herr, Ph. B., '90. 
 
 Shelley E. Higgins, A. B., '85. 
 
 George O. Higley, B. S., '91. 
 
 Burke A. Hinsdale, A. M. (Wil- 
 liams), 71. 
 
 Mrs. Burke A. Hinsdale. 
 
 Mary L. Hinsdale, A. M., '90. 
 
 Wilbert B. Hinsdale, B. S. (Hiram 
 Coll.), 75. 
 
 Charles W. Hitchcock, A. M., '80. 
 
 Nelville S. Hoff, D. D. S. (Ohio 
 Dent. Coll.), 76. 
 
 Ellen C. Hogeboom, B. S., 77. 
 
 Charles C. Hopkins, LL. B., 76. 
 
 George H. Hopkins, LL. B., 71. 
 
 Kate A. Hopper, B. L., '94. 
 
 Jesse B. Hornung, A. B., '93. 
 
 Benjamin R. Hoyt, M. D., 72. 
 
 Gotthelf C. Huber, M. D., '87. 
 
 Mrs. Gotthelf C. Huber. 
 
 Richard Hudson, A. B., 71. 
 
 Isabella H. Hull, A. B., '84. 
 
 Florence Huson, M. D., '85. 
 
 Harry B. Hutchius, Ph. B., 71. 
 
 Albert P. Jacobs, A. B., 73. 
 
 John A. Jameson, A. B., '91. 
 
 Louis H. Jennings, A. B., 72. 
 
 Elias F. Johnson, LL. B., '90. 
 
 Ronald Kelly, LL. B., 76. 
 
 Francis W. Kelsey, A. B. (Roches- 
 ter), '80. 
 
 Mrs. Charles A. Kent. 
 
 Hermann Kiefer, M. D. (Carls- 
 ruhe), '49, Regent. 
 
 Edward D. Kinne, A. B., '64. 
 
 Otto Kirchner, A. M., '94. 
 
 Mrs. Otto Kirchner. 
 
 Earle J. Knight, A. B., 71. 
 
 George M. Lane, A. B., '53. 
 
 R. Winifred Lane, A. B., 91. 
 
 Oliver H. Lau, M. D., '82. 
 
 John M. Lee, M. D., 78. 
 
 Louis B. Lee, Lit., '88. 
 
 David Le Favour, B. S., '95. 
 
 James A. Le Roy, A. B., '96. 
 
 Oscar Le Seure, M. D., 73. 
 
 Mrs. Oscar Le Seure. 
 
 Mrs. Francis A. Leslie, A. B., '86. 
 
 Moritz Levi, A. B., '87. 
 
 William A. Lewis, B. S., '96. 
 
 David M. Lichty, M. S., '91. 
 
 Alfred H. Lloyd, A. B. (Harvard), 
 '86. 
 
 Warren P. Lombard, A. B. (Har- 
 vard), 78. 
 
 Henry N. Loud, Lit., 72. 
 
 Elmer A. Lyman, A. B., '86. 
 
 Charles E. McAlester, B. S., '61. 
 
 Aaron V. McAlvay, A. B., '68. 
 
 James H. McDonald, A. B., 76. 
 
 Mrs. James H. McDonald. 
 
 Ray G. MacDonald, LL. B., '96. 
 
 Harrison B. McGraw, A. B., '91. 
 
 Stanley D. McGraw, Lit., '92. 
 
 Theodore A. McGraw, A. B., '59. 
 
 Harriet E. McKinstry, Ph. B., '96. 
 
 Andrew C. McLaughlin, A. B., '82. 
 
 Mrs. Andrew C. McLaughlin. 
 
GUESTS AT THE DINNER. 
 
 91 
 
 Joseph R. McLaughlin, B. S., '77. 
 
 Lincoln MacMillan, Lit., '90. 
 
 J. Playfair McMurrich, A. B. (To- 
 ronto), '79. 
 
 James McNamara, LL. B., '86. 
 
 Mrs. William L. Mahon, Ph.B., '83. 
 
 Edward L. Mark, A. B., '71. 
 
 James N. Martin, M. D., '83. 
 
 Mrs. James N. Martin, B. S. (Hills- 
 dale), '77. 
 
 David P. Mayhew, Ph. B., '93. 
 
 Fred A. Maynard, A. B., '74. 
 
 Clarence L. Meader, A. B., '91. 
 
 Mrs. Clarence L. Meader, Ph. B., 
 '92. 
 
 Floyd R. Mechem, A. M., '94. 
 
 Mrs. Floyd R. Mechem. 
 
 Edward Menkin, LL. B., '96. 
 
 Ernst H. Mensel, Ph. D., '96. 
 
 William Merrill, Ph. B., '71. 
 
 Watson B. Millard, A. B., '71. 
 
 Mary L. Miner, Ph. B., '82. 
 
 Selby A. Moran, B. L., '88. 
 
 John D. Muir, Ph. C., '84. 
 
 Rev. James O. Murray, Dean of 
 Princeton University. 
 
 Charles B. Nancrede, M. D. (Univ. 
 of Pa.), '69. 
 
 Mrs. Charles B. Nancrede. 
 
 Rev. John Neumann. 
 
 Frederick C. Newcombe, B. S., '90. 
 
 Walter H. Nichols, B. S., '91. 
 
 Mrs. Walter H. Nichols, B. S., '94. 
 
 Frederick G. Novy, B. S., '86. 
 
 Mrs. Frederick G. Novy, Lit., '93. 
 
 Rev. Frank O'Brien, A. M., '94. 
 
 Alfred B. Olsen, M. D., '94. 
 
 Mama R. Osband, A. B., '95. 
 
 Elmer J. Ottaway, B. L., '94. 
 
 Arthur S. Parker, Ph. C., '79. 
 
 Mrs. Arthur S. Parker., Lit., '81. 
 
 Walter R. Parker, B. S., '88. 
 
 Myron H. Parmelee, M. D. (Hahne- 
 mannMed. Coll.), '70. 
 
 Albert H. Pattengill, A. B., '68. 
 
 Mrs. Albert H. Pattengill, Lit., '86. 
 
 Henry R. Pattengill, B. S., '74. 
 
 George W. Patterson, A. B. (Yale), 
 '84. 
 
 Mrs. George W. Patterson, A. B., '90. 
 
 Isaac N. Payne, A. B., '81. 
 
 Alvick A. Pearson, B. L., '94. 
 
 Edward W. Pendleton, A. B., '72. 
 
 Walter S. Perry, A. B., '61. 
 
 William H. Pettee, A. B. (Har- 
 vard), '61. 
 
 Mrs. William H. Pettee. 
 
 Elihu B. Pond. 
 
 Irving K. Pond, C. E., '79. 
 
 Hoyt Post, A. B., '61. 
 
 James A. Post, B. S., '61. 
 
 Albert B. Prescott, M. D., '64. 
 
 Mrs. Albert B. Prescott. 
 
 William E. Quinby, A. B., '58. 
 
 Alexander B. Raymond, C. E., '71. 
 
 Jacob E. Reighard, Ph. B., '82. 
 
 Mrs. Jacob E. Reighard, Lit., '83. 
 
 Joseph Ripley, C. E., '76. 
 
 Henry W. Rogers, A. B., '74. 
 
 John C. Rolfe, A. B. (Harvard), '80. 
 
 Charles A. Rust, B. S., '71. 
 
 Horton C. Ryan, B. L., '93. 
 
 Fannie E. Sabin, Ph. B., '95. 
 
 Robert L. Sackett, B. S., '91. 
 
 Charles E. St. John, Ph. D. (Har- 
 vard), '96. 
 
 Edmond L. Sanderson, A. B., '92. 
 
 David A. Sawdey, Ph. B., '76. 
 
 John G. Schurtz, A. M., '81. 
 
 Fred. N. Scott, A. B., '84. 
 
 Mrs. Fred. N. Scott, A. B., '84. 
 
 Francis M. Sessions, Ph. B., '88. 
 
 Juliette Sessions, Ph. B., '93. 
 
 John Q. A. Sessions, A. B., '56. 
 
 George B. Sheehy, A. B., '85. 
 
 Clarence C. Sherrard, Ph. C., '90. 
 
 Harry G. Sherrard, A. B., '82. 
 
 Mrs. Harry G. Sherrard. 
 
92 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 Edwin S. Sherrill, A. B., '80. 
 
 Herbert M. Slauson, Ph. B., '77. 
 
 EUiott T. Slocum, A. M., '69. 
 
 Frank H. Smith, B. S., '93. 
 
 Frederic L. Smith, Ph. B., '90. 
 
 Walter O. Smith, Lit., '93. 
 
 J. L. Snyder, President of Michigan 
 Agricultural College. 
 
 Mrs. J. L. Snyder. 
 
 Hiram A. Sober, A. B., '86. 
 
 Harrison Soule. 
 
 Charles W. Southworth, A. B., '93. 
 
 Volney M. Spalding, A. B., '73. 
 
 Mrs. Volney M. Spalding, B. S. '85. 
 
 Willard G. Sperry, A. B. (Yale), 
 '69, President of Olivet College. 
 
 Albert A. Stanley, A. M., '90. 
 
 Mrs. Albert A. Stanley. 
 
 Alviso B. Stevens, Ph. C., '75. 
 
 Merari B. Stevens, M. D., '69. 
 
 Clarence G. Stone, Ph. C., '77. 
 
 Katharine E. Simmer, Ph. B., '91. 
 
 Jonathan Taft, D. D. S. (Ohio 
 Dent. Coll.), '50. 
 
 Rev. Henry Tatlock, A. B. (Wil- 
 liams), '71. 
 
 Fred M. Taylor, Ph. D., '88. 
 
 Andrew Ten Brook, A. B. (Col- 
 gate), '39. 
 
 Bradley M. Thompson, B. S., '58. 
 
 Mrs. Bradley M. Thompson. 
 
 Frank B. Tibbals, M. D., '91. 
 
 Russell F. Tinkham, A. B., '72. 
 
 Robert K. Tripp, A. B., '61. 
 
 Thomas C. Trueblood, A. M. (Earl- 
 ham), '88. 
 
 Mrs. Charles K. Turner, A. B., '72. 
 
 Henry M. Utley, A. B., '61. 
 
 Raymond E. Van Syckle, B. S., '91. 
 
 Victor C. Vaughan, M. S., '75. 
 
 Mrs. Victor C. Vaughan. 
 Lillie M. Volland, B. L., '96. 
 Ernst Voss, Ph. D. (Leipzig), '95. 
 James H. Wade. 
 George Wagner, Ph. C., '93 
 Byron S. Waite, B. L., '80. 
 Mrs. Henry C. Waldron. 
 Bryant Walker, A. B., '76. 
 Mrs. Charles H. Walker, Ph. B., '77. 
 Edward L. Walter, A. B., '68. 
 Edward D. Warner, B. L., '91. 
 John A. Watling, D. D. S. (Ohio 
 
 Dent. Coll.), '60. 
 Mrs. John A. Watling. 
 William D. Washburn, A. B., '79. 
 Mrs. William D. Washburn. 
 Elmer R. Webster, A. B., '79. 
 William W. Wedemeyer, B. L., '94. 
 Francis H. Wessels, A. B., '96. 
 Charles R. Whitman, A. B., '70, 
 
 Ex-Regent. 
 Horace L. Wilgus, B. S. (Ohio 
 
 State Univ.), '82. 
 George Willard, Ex-Regent. 
 Mrs. George Willard. 
 M. Alice Williams, A. B., '76. 
 Max Winkler, A. B. (Harvard), 
 
 '89. 
 Justin Winsor, A. B. (Harvard), 
 
 '53. 
 
 Dean C. Worcester, A. B., '89. 
 Mrs. Dean C. Worcester, Lit., 
 
 '92. 
 G. Frederick Wright, A. B. (Ober- 
 
 lin), '59. 
 
 Robert M. Wright, A. B., '71. 
 Rev. Thomas W. Young. 
 Robert Young, LL. B., '83. 
 Alexander Ziwet, C. E. (Carls- 
 
 ruhe), '80. 
 
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