Instruments, is considered one of the most significant of modern collections. It contains about 1400 examples of every type of musical instrument. Mr. Stearns also presented to the General Library a very inclusive set of books bearing on the subject. The collection of instruments has recently been transferred to an appropriate room in the Hill Auditorium. The Hill Auditorium also contains the Frieze Memorial Organ, which came from the Columbian Exposition. It is a fine example of organ building in this country at the time of its erection.

The Laboratories. In the several laboratories of the University opportunities are provided for practical instruction in physics, chemistry, mineralogy, geology, zoology, psychology, botany, forestry, actuarial work, engineering, histology, physiology, hygiene, electrotherapeutics, pathology, anatomy and dentistry. The laboratories are well supplied with apparatus from the best European and American makers.

Botanical Garden Arboretum. Through the gifts of friends the University has come into possession, of a parcel of land containing about ninety acres within the eastern boundary of the city of Ann Arbor and fronting three quarters of a mile on the Huron River. The city cooperates with the University in developing this tract as a park and botanical garden arboretum. It is planned to make a collection of native plants, shrubs, trees, particularly those of Michigan flora, and collections of decorative shrubs, trees, and perennials employed in landscape designs, to be represented here for inspection and study by the students of Landscape design.

The New Botanical Garden, a tract of twenty acres outside of the city limits, offers excellent opportunities for all phases of botanical instruction and research concerned with growing plants. It has four greenhouses with ample equipment for research and experimental purposes. The Botanical Garden provides for the decoration of University buildings and for annual floral displays.

The Saginaw Forest Farm of eighty acres, presented by the Honorable Arthur Hill of Saginaw, supplies special facilities for the study of forestry. The Eber White Woods is a tract of native hardwoods located just outside the city limits of Ann Arbor. The forest was cut over many years ago, but a part of the old white and red oak timber is still standing. The plan is to keep this tract in the wildwoods condition, to illustrate the reproduction, growth and development of our native timbers in the undisturbed forest. This tract not only serves the department of Forestry but is much used by classes in botany and zoology, besides being a favored recreation ground and park for the University students and the people of Ann Arbor.

Courses of Instruction. The University is composed of nine schools or colleges. They are named below:

College of Literature, Science and the Arts.

College of Engineering

College of Architecture

Medical School

Law School

College of Pharmacy

Homeopathic Medical School

College of Dental Surgery

Graduate School

Upon the completion of the prescribed courses of study of the different colleges the University confers bachelor, master and doctor degrees.

Extension Work. Originally the state idea was that the purpose of the University was to train those in attendance, to advance the cause of learning, and to exercise a general uplifting influence upon the life of the commonwealth through its graduates. This is doubtless the dominant idea today and very properly so. But in recent years there has been growing up a feeling that, in addition to its ordinary and regular work, the state university should do something directly of benefit to the people generally. In other words that, through appropriate service, it should come more closely in touch with the everyday interests of the people.

The University of Michigan is at present reaching the people and contributing to their interests in many ways and, to an extent that is often not fully understood.

What the University is doing for the direct benefit of the people of the state:

The public health service is perhaps not excelled by that of any similar institution in this country. By means of public health lectures, laboratory tests of various kinds, and especially through the hospital service, the University has reached almost every community of the State.

The Michigan Pasteur Institute was opened in 1903 in connection with the Hygienic Laboratory. Since its organization there have been no deaths from hydrophobia among patients treated at the Institute.

The College of Dental Surgery treats annually without expense to the patient, other than for materials used, between four and five thousand persons. The College of Engineering through its laboratories makes all the standard tests of road materials-cement, gravel, concrete, road stone, brick, wood and asphalt blocks, sewer pipe, drain tile. The facilities of the laboratories are extended to cities, villages, and the counties of Michigan.

The Sanitary Equipment Station serves the state in working out sewage systems for cities and villages.

The Library Extension Service puts the resources of the library at the service of schools, libraries or individuals who are seeking information to be found in books on its shelves.

The Department of Education, through inspection of the high schools, seeks to assist the secondary schools to attain to higher standard of efficiency. The Extension Lectures, given by members of the faculty, are distributed over the state so as to reach as large a number of communities as possible. Through the extension lectures and the hospitals, clinics, and laboratories over one hundred thousand people of the state are directly served by the University every year.

MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

Location. The Michigan Agricultural College is located at East Lansing, Michigan, three and one-half miles east of Lansing, and is connected with Lansing by an electric railway. East Lansing is a United States postoffice and money order office. Express, telegraph and freight address is Lansing.

Purpose. The Act which established the Agricultural College states that the chief purpose and design of the Agricultural College of the state of Michigan shall be to improve and teach the science and practice of agriculture. The state Agricultural Society was authorized to purchase a tract of land within ten miles of Lansing "for the purpose of an experimental farm and site for such Agricultural School."

History. While in article ten of Michigan's first constitution adopted in 1835, the foundation of our present educational system was laid, including provision for the establishment of a university, no direct reference to agriculture or agricultural education was made except such as occurred in the following sentence from Section 2. "The legislature shall encourage, by all suitable means, the promotion of intellectural, scientific and agricultural improvement.'

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On March 17th, 1849, there was organized at Lansing, the Michigan State Agricultural Society which was incorporated by a special Act of the legislature approved April 2, 1849. This organization, counting among its members some of the most intelligent and progressive men of the state, immediately began agitating the question of establishing a state agricultural school. January, 1850, Bela Hubbard of the executive committee, presented a strong memorial to the legislature upon this subject which may have borne fruit, for, in the constitution of 1850, the legislature was directed to provide for the establishment of an agricultural school as soon as practicable.

In the same year the Michigan delegation in Congress were memoralized by joint resolution of the legislature to secure a donation of three hundred and fifty thousand acres of land from the United States, for the establishment of agricultural schools in this state.

In the fall of 1843 the University established a chair of agriculture which was discontinued the next year, owing to the death of Rev. Charles Fox, who had been elected to fill it, and the course was never revived, for the Legislature of 1855 passed an act which resulted in the establishment of the present institution apart from the University. Under the provisions of this Act, the executive committee of the State Agricultural Society was to select a site for an agricultural school within ten miles of Lansing and contract for the purchase of not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand acres of land to be used in connection therewith, subject in both respects to the approval of the State Board of Education, which body was made the board of control. The result of this was that on June 12, 1855, the executive committee of the Agricultural Society met at Lansing to receive proposals and accepted the one offering the present site which contained 676 57-100 acres and is located three and one-half miles east of the city of Lansing, at that time only a little clearing in the woods.