SPEECHES AT THE PRESIDENT'S LUNCHEON [IN THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 26] I PRESIDENT EMERITUS JAMES BURRILL ANGELL, LL.D. Ma R. President and Delegates: Our students are habitually directed to this hall to find the treasures of learning. But when have so many such treasures been gathered here as are now brought by these learned representatives from the colleges and universities of our land? We beg to express our gratitude to you for manifesting by your visit to us the spirit of friendship and brotherhood which now binds together the institutions of higher learning. It has occurred to me that many who are here are not aware how different, even as late as my earlier years, were the relations of these institutions. They lived in a certain remoteness from each other. They did not send delegates to visit each other on festal occasions. Perhaps it would not be unjust to say that at least in New England there was a certain rivalry, in some cases jealousy, of each other. The number of students in each being small according to present standards of numbers, there was sometimes keen and active competition in securing the graduates of preparatory schools. The appointment of the graduate of one college to the faculty of another was almost unknown. Consequently there was in each college a deleterious breeding in-and-in, and a certain narrowness in the life of many of the institutions. How great and how beneficent has been the change, I need hardly say. There is now a real friendship and intimacy between us. Instead of envying each other the numbers in attendance, we seek to learn of each other how to care for the numbers with which we are embarrassed. We study each other's methods of instruction and administration for our profit. We call bright young men from each other's body of graduates, to enrich ourselves with the spirit of their training. We rejoice in each other's prosperity, and delight to find opportunities to express our joy in festal occasions. We have all come to believe that any really good college or university helps and not harms any other really good ones, so we are all with glad hearts coöperating as best we can in doing our duty to the public and blessing the nation. II THE HONORABLE ANDREW DICKSON WHITE, LL.D. MR. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: Although I have never had the honor to sit on the benches of this institution as an undergraduate, I have been insisting for the last half-century that the best part of my education was given me by the University of Michigan. It is, in fact, just fifty-five years since I began to receive instruction here, in a course which lasted six years, this course consisting of lectures and other instruction in modern history, given by me to the Michigan undergraduates of that period, a course which benefited me quite as much as it profited them, and, very likely, more. The men whose work had especially attracted me hither were, at first, two: Henry Philip Tappan, President, and Professor Henry Simmons Frieze, later Acting President of the institution. To these were added, soon after my arrival here, Professors Cooley, Campbell, and others, association with whom I have always counted among the great blessings of my life. The members of the Faculty were by no means my only instructors. For a valuable part of my education was received from my students, in my own lecture rooms and elsewhere. Many of these students were fully of my own age, several were older, and they taught me well. It had been my fortune to receive instruction in my favorite subjects at sundry universities at home and abroad, and I came to Ann Arbor with an intense desire to bring the teachings of history to bear upon students, in view of the great crisis in our national history, which was then beginning to appear, and which four years later bloomed forth into the Civil War. I wished especially to awaken these men of the future to the duties of American citizenship, as taught by the examples of other nations which had gone through great troubles, trials, and ordeals, in their efforts to establish and maintain human liberty. But I soon found that in this awakening process my students were doing quite as much for me as I was doing for them. In a very real sense they were awakening and teaching me. I discovered that their questions upon my lectures and quizzes demanded learning such as was given neither at New Haven, Berlin, nor Paris, and I worked hard to grapple with them. During our discussions my students constantly pro |