ance of $15,110.46. The state capitol was dedicated and occupied in January, 1879.

The capitol is situated in the center of a square tract of land containing ten acres. The building is 420 feet long, 274 feet wide and 267 feet high. It covers 1 1-6 acres. The structure as a whole is of Amherst, Ohio, sandstone. The capitol is occupied by the legislature when in session, the governor, the state officers, the supreme court and the library. The war museum is located in the rotunda of the basement. The state historical and pioneer collection is located on the fourth floor.

The War Museum contains interesting relics of the Civil War. There are many old pictures of Michigan soldiers taken in war time. There are the old wooden and metal canteens, muskets, sabers, swords, cannon-balls, shells and shot of all kinds. Several Confederate flags which were captured by the Michigan regiments, as well as all kinds of Union and Confederate money used during the war, are among the most interesting of the relics. The first flag bearing the state coat of arms is in the possession of the State and is exhibited with this collection. The flag was presented by the Brady Guard of Detroit, by Stephen C. Mason, first governor of Michigan, on February 22, 1837. This was without doubt the first flag bearing the state coat of arms and it was carried by the first uniformed company of militia in the state, when called into service of the United States as a frontier guard during what is known as "The Patriot War," in 1837. The two old cannons which stand on either side of the front entrance to the capitol belonged to a Michigan battery under the command of Captain Loomis. They were in use during the entire war. In March, 1909, the Board of State Auditors decided to more effectively preserve the Civil and Spanish-American battle flags of Michigan, which had previously been kept in the war museum. Substantial, air-tight compartment cases were placed encircling the main floor rotunda, wherein rests each separate flag in a bronze base indicating the organization to which it belonged. Nine bronze tablets are installed in connection with these cases giving permanent record of every Michigan organization serving during these

wars.

The Museum of the Historical and Pioneer Society contains a valuable collection of interesting objects representing all phases of the pioneer history of Michigan.

The State Library occupies the second, third and fourth floors of the west end of the capitol. The library belongs to the people of Michigan and is at their service in all of its departments. The law department is used by members of the supreme court, attorneys, and by the public in general. The legislative reference department is used very extensively by the legislature when in session. It contains the laws of other states on numerous matters and furnishes useful and up-to-date information on all subjects that come before the legislature. The traveling library department carries the benefit of the state library direct to the people through the schools, the Sunday Schools, farmers' clubs, granges, reading circles, study clubs or any literary or educational organization. A traveling library consists of from thirty to fifty books carefully selected. Hundreds of these traveling libraries are in constant use in all parts of the state. Besides loaning books by means of these traveling libraries the state library also maintains a department which loans pictures to schools, literary clubs and other associations.

Owing to the growth and development of the state, the business of the vari

ous departments has increased until the Commissioner of Labor, the Dairy and Food Commissioner, the State Highway Conmmissioner, the State Geologist, the State Tax Commissioner, the Michigan Railroad Commission, the Industrial Accident Board and the State Military Department are compelled to occupy quarters in the office buildings of the city.

The legislature of 1917 appropriated $800,000 for the erection of a new, adequate office building. This building will house those state departments which are not at present provided for in the capitol.

BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE CAMPUS OF THE UNIVERSITY.

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Location. The University of Michigan is located at the city of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, on tracts of land containing over one hundred fifty acres of land.

Purpose. The University of Michigan is a part of the public educational system of the state. The governing body of the institution is a Board of Regents, elected by popular vote for terms of eight years, as provided in the Constitution of the state. In accordance with the laws of the state the University aims to complete and crown the work that is begun in the public schools by furnishing ample facilities for liberal education in literature, science, and the arts, and for thorough professional study of engineering, architecture, medicine, law, pharmacy and dentistry. Through the aid that has been received from the United States and from the State, it is enabled to offer its privileges, with only moderate charges, to all persons of either sex who are qualified for admission. While Michigan has endowed her University primarily for the higher education of her own sons and daughters, it must be understood that she also opens the doors of the institution to all students wherever their homes. It is in this broad, generous, and hospitable spirit that the University has been founded, and that it endeavors to do its work.

History. The Ordinance of 1787 provided for education in the Northwest Territory in the statement, "Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged." In accordance with the spirit of the great Ordinance, Congress in 1804 reserved for a seminary of learning a township in each of the three divisions of the Territory of Indiana. One of these divisions became the Territory of Michigan and so received the grant. By the treaty of Fort Meigs in 1817 the Indians who occupied this region (Ottawas, Chippewas and Pottawatomies) early contributed to the fund for endowing the University by granting three sections of land to the College of Detroit. This College of Detroit, established a month after the treaty, was the ancestor of the University. "The Indians doubtless hoped that some of their descendants might attain to the knowledge which the white man learned in his schools and which gave him such wonderful power and skill.”

Augustus B. Woodward, Chief Justice of the Territory at that time, drew up the plans of the "Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigama, "with its "thirteen didaxiim, or professorships." The faculty consisted of two men-the Rev. John Montieth from Princeton, who held the presidency and seven of the didaxiim; and Father Gabriel Richard, who held the vice-presidency and the remaining six.

In 1821 the Governor and Judges gave to the institution the simple name of the University of Michigan. They gave to the University the power to establish colleges and schools so far as the funds would permit. In those early days when the population was small the college was not yet needed, but in both the act of 1817 and 1821, those two early charters of the University, were laid the foundations of what is known as the Michigan system of education, beginning with the University and stretching down through all the lower grades to the kindergarten.