of the Governor, and with the voice of the people, I say: Salve Universitas Michiganensium.

PRESIDENT HUTCHINS

FORTY-ONE years ago to-day, in yonder Methodist Church, the commencement exercises of the University of Michigan were celebrated. On that occasion Dr. James B. Angell was inaugurated President, and the class of 1871, of which I was a humble member, was turned loose upon the world. Dr. Angell's first official act was to deliver to us our diplomas. It was my great pleasure this morning to deliver to Dr. Angell the diploma that made him the youngest alumnus of the University. Each year since 1871, Dr. Angell has been growing younger, so that today I am able to introduce him as the youngest youngest alumnus of us all. I present to you Dr. Angell.

PRESIDENT EMERITUS JAMES BURRILL ANGELL, LL.D.

We have all heard a great deal of the fountain of youth. I never suspected that the object which the Regents of the University had was to open that fountain of youth to me. I have had many surprises at the hands of the Board of Regents during my presidency, but I was not prepared for this; I desire to return my hearty thanks to them for enabling me to take my position on something like equal terms with the rest of you. I have had to maintain a quasiofficial relation to you in years past which involved many perplexing situations. Now, it seems, I can salute the gentlemen here as my brothers, and I do not know but I may venture to salute the ladies as my

sisters; we all know that nothing is more flattering to a young man than to have a young woman tell him that she regards him as her brother.

There are some other perplexing and curious relations coming out of this thing, for I am made brother of my two sons. I have also been accustomed in delivering baccalaureate addresses to give many exhortations to you in the last forty years as to the duties of graduates of the University to the State. I suppose you should say to me now, "Practice what you have been preaching." I may say that you all appreciate that I began my duties as president very well by giving the degrees to the class of 1871, among whom was the present President of the University. I have always been very proud of the fact that my first act was one so promising and useful to the University, and I wish to say a few words merely as to the fact that the result has been one of such marked benefit to the University by the accession of one of the members of that class to the presidency of this institution. I am here where I necessarily see a great deal of what is going on in the interior life of this University, and I wish to say to you what many of you know, that I was filled with great delight and satisfaction when the Regents chose my friend on the left as President of the University at the time of my resignation, and I have seen cause every day since to look upon that act with increasing satisfaction. I am glad to bear testimony to what you must see many proofs of around you, the great prosperity which has come upon the University during his incumbency of his office. But you cannot know like those who are here upon the

ground all that we see and know for ourselves, the signs of internal prosperity and harmony and enthusiasm which exist throughout the whole life of the University. And I would also like to endorse what he has said about that great enterprise which has really been due to him in such large measure, the organization of the alumni associations through the State and the rest of the United States. No one except one who is here upon the ground can appreciate what an amount of labor it has called for at his hands; and also the other multifarious duties which have come upon him, and which must come upon every president now from the largely expanding and more complicated life and organization of this great institution. It takes the whole force of a strong and wise man, you may well believe, to bear this burden and keep his health and strength and good spirits, and, I may add, his good temper. I wish to congratulate the University and congratulate you that as you come up here from year to year you will find it in such competent hands, and one cannot but dream often, if he is in my place, of what is to come here in the years that are before him.

Old men dream dreams as well as young men. I am not going to describe our dreams, but simply say that we are allowed to have them, and are perplexed even to conjecture what is to be the outcome of the rapid growth of this institution in the next twenty-five years. Some of you will live to come up here and celebrate the one hundredth anniversary. I could wish to be spared until then, but I don't suppose that any number of degrees will give me that privilege. One

cannot help looking forward with the greatest expectation and greatest delight in imagining what this institution is to be and what it is to do for the State of Michigan and the country in twenty-five years of such rapidly increasing prosperity and usefulness as are coming upon it in these days of ours.

I am delighted to be able to look you in the face once more. One is always tempted at my age to become garrulous, so I have to put brakes on myself when I reflect that in this great Faculty of four hundred persons and more, there are on the grounds but two men who were here when I came, that is, Mr. Beman, now Professor of Mathematics, then Instructor, and Professor D'Ooge. I am sorry to say that Dr. D'Ooge is going to leave us as the sun sets to-night, so that I can only figure hereafter as a sort of prehistoric President, contributing but little effective work, yet giving myself always to your service and to your affection.

PRESIDENT HUTCHINS

WHEN I entered the University of Michigan in the fall of 1867, I found here a vigorous young assistant professor who was just entering upon what has proved to be a long and most effective academic career. As Dr. Angell has said, Professor D'Ooge, honored and beloved by all, closes his official connection with the University of Michigan to-day. It has seemed to me to be eminently fitting that on this occasion I should ask him to say a word to the alumni, delegates, and friends that are here gathered.

PROFESSOR MARTIN LUTHER D'OOGE, ll.d. MR. President, Gentlemen of the Board of Regents, Fellow Alumni, Ladies and Gentlemen: A small company of us celebrated last evening at my house in a reunion the fiftieth anniversary of the class of 1862. It is significant that the record of a class that is holding its reunion should cover two-thirds of the entire period of the history of this University. Fifty years ago forty-nine of us were sent forth from the literary department of our Alma Mater, then a blushing matron of twenty-five years, into the arena of life. Fourteen of the forty-nine remain, and seven came together last evening. Men die, but institutions live. We are witnesses to-day of the astonishing growth and development of our Alma Mater, who is still, when we compare her with the older universities of Europe, in the heyday of her youth.

Many and great contrasts present themselves before us as we think of the fifty years that have passed since we bade adieu to these halls. Time does not permit me to point out these contrasts, nor is it necessary after the eloquent commemorative oration which we heard yesterday. This is a day of memories, sacred and happy. First of all we recall the great President, the founder of our University, Henry P. Tappan. His majestic presence, his commanding eloquence, his lofty character still rise visible before us, and we still can hear his voice addressing us: "Young Gentlemen," his favorite term. As one of my classmates said to me the other day," When President Tappan said 'Young Gentlemen 'every fel