Word: michigan
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From Prof. J. H. Payne, the President of the Co-operative Society of the University of Michigan, the following facts have been ascertained relative to the work to be done by that society in its endeavors to protect the students at Ann Arbor from the extortions of the local tradesmen. Professor Payne has been in Cambridge for the past few days, making a careful study of the system on which our own society is conducted. Coming as it does at such an important crisis in the affairs of the Harvard society, his testimony as to the value of Co-operation...
...effort is being made at Michigan University to organize a Rugby team to play on roller skates...
Prof. J. H. Payne of Michigan University, President of the University Co-operative society, is in town inspecting the Harvard society...
...mock Congress has been organized at Michigan University...
...receipts from tuition of $166,538, and 303,126 volumes in the libraries; but the value of buildings and grounds is only $1,310,000. The colleges of New York and Pennsylvania are also much better endowed than those of Ohio, and are vastly richer in libraries and apparatus. Michigan, with only nine colleges, shows up better than Ohio in the provision made for their support, These figures, which might be tediously multiplied, give rise to the suspicion that many of our colleges are, in fact, little better than academies, and are colleges only in name, and this suspicion...