ington and Albany on the 23d of September, and at the Royal Observatory at Leipsic, on the 4th of October. The discovery having been thus duly announced and confirmed in this country and in Europe, the selection of a name for the new world, by right of discovery, devolved upon Prof. Watson. He has therefore selected the name Eurynome, who in the Gretian mythology, was the mother of the Graces. Professor George P. Williams, was by his own request transferred from the chair of Mathematics to the chair of Physics, which became vacant by the transfer of Professor Watson to the Observatory. Charles K. Adams was appointed Instructor in Latin and History.

In this review of the action of the Board of Regents during the past year, it is proper for us to make especial mention of the change in the Presidency of the University.

Changes of the members constituting the Faculties of a literary institution, including its head, must in the nature of things take place from time to time. Such changes have often occurred in the history of our University, and are to be expected as occasion may arise in the future. Such changes are produced by an indefinite variety of causes, not always susceptible of detailed statement; causes seldom proper to be spread uncalled for, before the world, and always involving considerations delicately affecting individuals, and in point of fact, when such changes and transfers have been made, here and elsewhere, seldom if ever, has it been thought fitting or expedient to set forth an expose of the whole case. It is doubtful whether the action of the present Board furnishes an exception to these remarks, either in point of fact, or of policy.

Before making any further allusion to our change of the Presidency, we may be permitted to suggest some points bearing upon our duties and our position as Regents. It is made our duty by the Constitution and laws of the State, to appoint a President, Professors, and other agents for carrying on the business of the University, and to remove them as occasion may require; to make due use and application of its funds, and to see that the Institution is made to subserve the purposes of its

creation. This we are to do without fee or reward, except that reward which arises from a consciousness of having endeavored to execute faithfully the high trusts thus reposed in us. We frankly submit, therefore, that it would not be unreasonable to presume prima facie, the truth of the following proposition, viz: That the Board of Regents are conscious of the high trusts with which they are charged: That they have acquainted themselves with the practical working of the Institution, and have learned, at least, so much of its merits and defects as have a direct bearing on their duties: That they have endeavored to increase its merits and to eradicate or diminish its defects: That they have not and cannot have any purpose in their action other than the good and prosperity of the University: That they have endeavored to perform their duty without fear, favor or affection: That, in their action, the removal of a President, among other things, there were causes, in their judgment, not justifying simply, but imperiously requiring such action, whether those causes have been, or may now be fully enumerated or not. If these propositions are granted, we think we shall find no difficulty in satisfying the true friends of the University of the propriety of our action.

We long since saw, to our regret, that evils existed in the University, of a serious character. The Senior year had become of comparatively little value. Its high tone of scholarship had fallen away. The philosophy taught during that year was little more than a name. By-laws adopted by the Board, for the government of the University, were rejected, and their enforcement refused. Moral restraints were, in many cases, thrown off, and it became exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to enforce discipline for moral delinquencies. Habits of wine and beer drinking to excess, and other improper habits, were not sufficiently discountenanced. Dissensions existed

between Professors and the President. The absence of the President from the University during term time occurred for extended periods. A claim has been presistently asserted that

a degree of power belonged to the President, which was uncontrollable by any other body, and which would deprive both Regents and Faculties of many of their most important prerogatives in the external and internal management of the University. Any difference of opinion on this subject has been treated as a personal grievance, and has been resented. Members of Faculties have experienced this jealously to an extent which has caused them serious annoyance and inconvenience, and their usefulness has been impaired by assaults on their character and motives, openly made by the President. Others have abstained from expressing their views at Faculty meetings, and on other occasions, from a well grounded fear of exciting similar enmity and annoyance. It has been distinctly claimed that the views of the President should overrule those of the Faculties where they should not be in unison, and the persistent assertion of this uncontrolled right of government, and the feeling known to be excited in him by any opposition to his views, has prevented any general or cordial interchange of sentiment upon University interests between him and the body of Professors; and the complaints which he has made against Regents and Professors have not been confined to private circles or official intercourse, bnt his criticisms and attacks have been made freely and publicly, without reference to place or occasion, and have been made to students, and even in class exercises, to the manifest subversion of respect and discipline.

Such a clashing of claims to authority, and such interferences with the rights and usefulness of others could not but tend to destroy the University. All these evils were attributed mainly to the President.

The extent of these and other defects and direlictions, the practical evils they produced-some of them obvious to every observer-others not so readily observable, but quite as injurious, convinced the Board long since, of the imperious necessity for their interposition to devise and effect a remedy, and we were as well convinced, that the only effectual remedy was the one we applied, the removal of the President and the ap

pointment of a successor. The difficulties in the way of this remedy were neither few in number, nor trifling in force. They will readily recur to the reflecting. But, without entering upon that phase of the questlon, it is sufficient to say that it became our duty to effect it. This we did after several hours of express notice to the President with the hope that a resignation on his part might relieve us from the further prosecution of this unpleasant duty. We confidently trust that results will vindicate our action, and add to the prosperity and usefulness of the University.

BUILDINGS NEEDED.

That the University needs buildings has been again and again stated, urged and repeated by Regents and visitors, by the President and other friends of the University, and yet we cannot refrain in view of its pressing wants in this respect to repeat our opinion that notwithstanding the present Board of Regents have by a severe economy, succeeded in enlarging the Laboratory and providing a new building for the accommodation of the Law Department and the general Library, yet the University needs more buildings. The Medical College building must be enlarged or its doors be closed against large numbers desiring to avail themselves of the instruction given there. A new chapel is still needed, greatly needed for the proper moral training of the young men, and the public exercises of the Institution, and the State should not longer withhold the means of furnishing these much needed accommodations for the proper and creditable working of its University. We hope and trust that the next Legislature will cheerfully respond to an appeal from our successors on this subject and furnish them with the means of adding the crowning glory to the University which will thus supply it with pleasant accommodations for the relig ious and moral training of its students, and with a suitable place for its annual public exercises. In 1860 the present Board in their annual report urged this appeal which was seconded by you as Superintendent of Public Instruction by a note appended to that report in the following words: "A

chapel ample enough to accommodate the large congregation of students which the fame of our University has attracted to its several departments, is a necessity which neither the patriot nor the Christian can longer overlook. Society has too large a stake in the character of the six hundred young men gathered here, not to furnish every facility for that moral culture which may inspire them with Christian sentiments, and prompt them to devote their educated manhood to the high uses of private morality and public good." We hope and trust that the Christian patriotism and philanthropy of the people will no longer allow the Legislature to slumber over this important duty, and that our successors may be enabled to signalize their administration by the consummation of this long neglected, though much needed addition to the strength and means of healthful influence of the University. This demand becomes more urgent each successive year as the number of students increases, and has now grown to be a necessity, as the number of students on the sixteenth of November, 1863, is 753, and will probably exceed 800 during the year. The Medical College is crowded to its utmost capacity by filling all the aisles and passage ways with seats for the accommodation of students. Annexed hereto is a Roll of Honor, or List of Students from the University who have entered the army of the Union to defend their country, so far as we have been able to collect the names. We deem it not unfitting that their names should be thus preserved in the public documents of our State. We are happy to add that at the date of this report the University is prosperous in all its departments beyond anything in its past history.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

DONALD MCINTYRE,

E. LARKIN BROWN,

J. EASTMAN JOHNSON,

B. L. BAXTER,

LEVI BISHOP,

HENRY WHITING,

Ann Arbor, November 17th, 1863.

Regents.