Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Institute of Technology will establish during the coming summer a school either in the coal regions of Pennsylvania or in the iron regions of Michigan, in order to give the students of the mining department practice in the work of the mines...
President Angell's report to the board of regents, of Michigan University, notes an increase of thirty-six in the attendance of women during 1886-7, and a relative gain in numbers with respect to the male student. They now form nearly seventeen per cent. of the whole. He bears witness to their capacity to meet the severest tests of the common discipline, and says:- "The advantages derived from the University courses have proved as helpful to the women in their lives subsequent to their graduation as to the men." Of both sexes, he says: "The number of farmers' children...
...University of Michigan," says President Haven in his inaugural address, "is the oldest, largest and most flourishing of the class of institutions that may rightly be regarded as State universities." This statement was true for America in 1863, and is true to-day. In its origin, the University of Michigan is at once a national and State institution. It owes its existence primarily to the far-sighted national policy, first declared in the ordinance of 1787, whereby it was provided for the great Northwestern Territory that "schools and the means of education should forever be encouraged." This principle was reasserted...
Harvard is the college best represented in the 50th congress. Counting law school graduates, she has fourteen men; Yale, 9; Michigan University, 9; Amherst, 2; Bowdoin, 2; Brown, 2; Dartmouth...
...object of the publication is to trace the origin of the study of history at the various centers of learning in this country and to show the importance of the political and narrative history of the United States to the college faculties. Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell and University of Michigan have been taken as the representative colleges for men in the United States. The following is an extract from the chapter on "History at Harvard University...