A Prosperous Year

A PROSPEROUS YEAR

At the University of Michigan Has Passed

THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT

President Angel Wants Aid for Advanced Students.

A Cosmopolitan List of Students. Michigan in the War Lost Seen Men.-The Contractors Were in Attendance.

The Board of Regents were in exeutive session Wednesday and all the contractors were on hand having business with the board. They were called into the executive meeting and its business was undoubtedly settling with them.

President Angell and Treasurer Soule presented their annual reports. President Angell spoke feelingly of Prof. E. L. Walter, Judge Thomas M. Cooley and Prof. James L. High, who died during the year, and brought out the fact that of the more than 200 teachers now on the rolls only four were members of the faculty when he became president in 1871.

He said "The attendance last year was the largest in the history of the university, the total number, exclusive of the summer school, being 3,114. This was an increase of 236 over' the preceediug year. Including the summer school, the mark reached 3,223. The gain was largely in the law department, which then fully completed the change of course from two to three years. In the graduate school there is little change from year to year, and is a fact which encourages rather than discourages when it is considered that most of the stronger universities are able, by endowments to offer our graduates fellowships and scholarships yeilding from $300 to $500 a year, or even more. It is well known that we have only one permanent fellowship and two or three temporary scholarships. With few exceptions, graduates must remain here, if at all, at their own expense, while they are offered a comfortable support if they will accept a fellowship at someone of four or five of the stronger universities in the country. it is a matter of congratulation that even now 76 students are pursuing graduate studies here.

Michigan furnished 1863 of the unirersity's student population. This is 16 more than in the previous year, and the largest number ever sent by this state. Estimating the population at 2,500,000, one person in 1,342 is a student in the university. Illinois, although is well furnished with colleges and universities, sent us 365 students, Ohio 161, Indiana 98, Iowa 86, New York 71, and so on down. Every state in the union, except Delaware, and every territory, Alaska, the District of Columbia and the Hawaiian islands were represented, as were Germany, England, Russia, Turkey, Mexico, Japan and the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. It may be doubted whether so cosmopolitan a company of students is assembled at any other university in the country. The presence of non-residents is as distinct a pecuniary advantage to our treasury, as it is in giving a large catholic sprite to the whole university and in spreading far and wide its fame and reputation. The number of women in attendance during the past year was 673, an increase of 26. They are enrolled as follows: Literary departinent, 589 ; medical, 59 ; engineering, 1 ; law, 5 ; pharmacy 3 ; homeopathic, 8 ; dental, 8.

The work in the different departments is then reviewed in details, special attention being devoted to the new law building. This will accommodate 1,000 students and cost, including the furnishing, $65,000.

"When the recent war with Spain broke out, the patriotic spirit of the university flamed up as it did in 1861. So far as is known, 124 students enlisted and many more would willingly have gone if their aid had seemed necessary. So far as is known, seven university men lost their lives in the war. ' '

The treasurer's report showed that the pay roll was $331,150.55. The receipts from students fees were $177,373.62. The sum of $250 was appropriated for the expense of dedicating the new law building, $300 for a refrigerator at the university hospital, $300 for repairs on the hospital and $210 for the chemical department.