of the Renaissance Period; 3d, About four hundred Medallion Portraits of Leading Personages in Modern History. These portraits were derived from authentic sources, and reduced with fidelity, and the whole were cast by Eichler, of Berlin.

Not included with the above are several copies of Modern Busts and Reliefs, by Thorwaldsen, Canova, Powers, and others.

All the above collections are now arranged in connected galleries, for the purpose of rendering them attractive, as well as accessible, both to students and visitors. The University thus affords a secure deposit for objects of value or curiosity, where they can be classified and exhibited to the best advantage, and be productive of the greatest amount of good. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the Museum will receive accessions, not only through the direct action of the Board of Regents and of the Faculties, but also by donations from individuals, whether graduates or other friends of the Institution. Valuable donations of this kind have already been made.

The members of the class of 1859, shortly before graduation, imported from Paris, for the Gallery of Statues, a splendid copy of the Laocoon, of the full size of the original; thus leaving within the halls of the University a noble monument of their public spirit, and of their affection for Alma Mater, as well as an honorable example for those who shall hereafter fill their places. No token of grateful remembrance, whether bestowed by a class, or by an individual graduate, can be more acceptable to the University-certainly none more beautiful and appropriate —than an accurate copy of one of the great masterpieces of Ancient or Modern Sculpture.

IV. EXPENSES.

The only charge of the Institution (from whatever part of the country the student may come) is an admission fee of ten dollars, and an annual payment of five dollars. The fee of ten dollars entitles the student to the privileges of permanent membership in any Department of the University.

There are no dormitories, and no commons, connected with the University. Students obtain board and lodging in private families, at prices varying from two to three and a half dollars per week. Clubs are also formed, by which the price of board is much reduced.

Including board and washing, the necessary expenses of a student for a year will range from one hundred and twenty-five to one hundred and fifty dollars.

V. GENERAL REMARKS ON THE COURSE OF STUDY, AND THE POPULAR CHARACTER OF THE UNIVERSITY.

In the department of Literature, Science, and the Arts, there exist now three prescribed courses of study: The Classical, in which students are graduated as Bachelors of Arts; the Scientific, in which students are graduated as Bachelors of Science; and the course of Civil Engineering, in which the students will receive the diploma of Civil Engineer.

In addition to the above, elective studies are introduced; so that students, after having completed one year of the courses for graduation, can proceed not only to one or both of the others, to study the branches which peculiarly belong to them, but can select, also, particular sciences or subjects of prolonged study, extending through two, three, or more years, according to the nature of the science selected, or the degree of perfection at which they aim. The old idea of crowding all the science and literature into four arbitrary years is thus abrogated.

Courses of four years' study are, indeed, still prescribed, since the state of our preparatory schools does not admit of an entire revolution at once; but the amount of study allotted to each is only what experience has decided to be practicable within that period. But if any student fails in the stated examinations, he will be required to fall back to a lower class, and to review his studies as much as his case requires.

The popular character of the University is worthy of notice. It is the prevailing opinion that the common school is the most popular of all our institutions of learning. This would be true,

did the common school meet all the educational wants of the people, and were it the only one open to them. But it certainly cannot be true merely because the common school is the lowest grade of education, unless we adopt the monstrous principle that the people are entitled only to the lowest grade.

All civilized countries, and especially those having popular forms of government-where the people share alike the sovereign power, and are eligible to the civil offices-require a great number of highly educated men. Indeed the more widely the higher degrees of education are diffused, the better. But where the higher institutions of learning are so constituted as to be accessible only to the rich, and to privileged classes, they can not be popular institutions.

Now, the University of Michigan is popular, in the strictest sense, whether we consider its course of study, or the fact that it is open to all the people, without distinction. If any wish to give their sons a classical education, with a view of introducing them into the Learned Professions, they find here the requisite course of study. If any wish to give their sons a purely scientific education, or to introduce them to branches. connected with the Mechanical Arts, with Manufactures, with Commerce, with Agriculture, or with Civil Engineering, the requisite courses are all here provided.

By the introduction of courses for the higher degress, the scope of the University is still more enlarged, and made to approximate still nearer to those grades of education which are properly embraced in the University title.

The University thus meets the wants of the people in all the higher degrees of education.

In the next place, the University, having been endowed by the General Government, affords education without money and without price. There is no young man so poor, that industry, diligence and perseverence, will not enable him to get an education here.

The present condition of the University confirms this view of its character. While the sons of the rich, and of men of

more or less property, and, in large proportion, the sons of substantial farmers, mechanics, and merchants, are educated here, there is also a very considerable number of young men de. pendent entirely upon their own exertions-young men who, accustomed to work on the farm, or in the mechanic's shop, have become smitten with the love of knowledge, and are manfully working their way through to a liberal education, by appropriating a portion of their time to the field and the workshop.

Still farther additions to the general materiel of education will, we trust, from time to time be made, as shall in the process of development be required.

VI. ENDOWMENT AND RESOURCES.

The University of Michigan received from the United States a grant of two townships of land, which was placed under the control of the State of Michigan, to be sold, and the proceeds applied to "the use and support" of the University. The sale of these lands has produced a fund, in the hands of the State as Trustee, now amounting to $534,667 57 upon which interest, at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, is paid, and which produces a reliable income of more than.... It also receives from other sources annually, about

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Making upwards of.. which the institution has annually to operate with. This sum is sufficient to pay its Professors and all its officers, its contingent expenses, and to increase its libraries and other means of illustration every year gradually.

The past year has been distinguished by the following changes :

On the first day of the college year, John Louis Fasquelle, late Professor of Modern Languages and Literature, in the University, was removed from his field of usefulness by death, and Edward P. Evans was appoined to give instruction in the Department of Modern Languages temporaily, and afterwards he was appointed to fill the chair made vacant by the death of

Professor Fasquelle. Reverend Henry P. Tappen, D. D., L. L. D., was removed from the office of President and from the chair of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, and Reverend Erastus Otis Haven, D. D., L. L. D., of Massachusetts, was appointed President and Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature. Reverend Lucius D. Chapin was appointed Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy. John L. Tappan was removed from the office of Librarian, and Datus C. Brooks appointed Librarian in his stead. Francis Brunnow resigned the Professorship of Astronomy and the Directorship of the Observatory, and James C. Watson was appointed to fill the places thus made vacant. It is due to Professor Watson to state that his appointment was called for by some of the first names in our own country, among whom may be mentioned Elias Loomis, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in Yale College, A. D. Bache, Superintendent U. S. Coast Survey, Dr. B. A. Gould, Superintendent Astronomical Department, U. S. Coast Survey, William Chauvent, late Professor Mathematics and Astronomy, Washington University, St. Louis, and now President of that Institution, Benjamin Pierce Perkins, Professor of Astronomy and Mathematics in Harvard College, Joseph Wintock, Prof. Math. U. S. N., Supt. Naut. Almanac, and Com. J. M. Gillis, U. S. N. Observatory, Washington. We are happy to be able to add, that before the ink was scarcely dry on his new commission, the advent of Professor Watson to the chair of Astronomy, was signalized by the announcement that he had discovered a new planet never before recognized by, or known to any astronomer of the old or new world. Professor Watson was appointed on the 25th day of August, 1863. The new planet was discovered by him at the Observatory, at Ann Arbor, on the night of the 14th September, in the constellation Pisces. On the evening of the 15th its planetary character was established beyond doubt, and on the discovery was communicated to astronomers in this country, and to Professor C. A. F. Peters, of Altona, Denmark, editor of the Astronomische Nachrichten. The discovery was confirmed at Wash