Word: michigan
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...Association for Promoting the Higher Education of Women recently published a pamphlet on "The Admission of Women to Universities." It consists of letters from President White of Cornell University; Dr. John LeConte, ex-president of the University of California; President Angeil of the University of Michigan; President Beach of Wesleyan University; President Warren of Boston University; President Fairchild of Oberlin College; Mrs. Louis Agassiz, on the development of the Harvard Annex, and others. These letters were written in answer to questions sent out by the association to the presidents of several American universities where co-education is in operation...
...base-ball team East that can meet some of the college league teams with some success, we do not expect that much importance will be attached to our athletic enterprises. It seems probable, however, that the points of difference in student customs between a large Western university like Michigan and a large Eastern one like Harvard would prove entertaining to the readers of the HERALD...
...this is closely allied to a conservative and, in many cases, an exclusive spirit. I believe that innovations are more easily brought about at Harvard than they are here. In no place is the system of severely exclusive fraternities more completely in vogue than at the University of Michigan. They are not, as at Yale, mere class affairs, nor, as at Harvard, secret orders, but are institutions of profound importance to the individual in his college career and to the customs of the student community. The great question of the student's first year here is "what fraternity shall...
Another peculiarity of the University of Michigan, which I might mention, and which in the dark might serve to distinguish us from Yale, is that Harvard is a very popular college here...
...education is in vogue at Michigan, as at most Western colleges, and if a vote were taken of the male students, it is possible that a majority would be found in its favor; but the minority would be a class whose opinions are entitled to respect. A better class of ladies has been in attendance the last few years, and the institution has been gaining in favor. The Chronicle generally opposes co-education, and (perhaps for no other reason) the Argonaut favors...