TABLE OF CONTENTS 



General Program 



Baccalaureate Sermon, by President Matthew Henry 

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THE COLLEGE AND THE STATE 

 Address for'The State, by Governor Warner . . 25 



Address for the Grange, by George B. Horton, Master 29 



Address for the Faraiers' Clubs of Michigan, by 



President Lucius Whitney Watkins ... 36 



Address for the Agricultural Society of Michigan, 



BY Secretary I. H. Butterfield .... 40 



Address for the Michigan Engineering Society, by 



Mr. Frank Hodgman ...... 47 



Address for the Normal Schools, by President Jones 51 

 Address for the Denominational Colleges, by Presi- 

 dent Bruske 



Address for the Public Schools, by State Superin- 

 tendent Wright ...... 



55 

 57 



THE BUILDERS OF THE COLLEGE 



The College and the Students, 185 7-1 860, by Mr. 



C. J. Monroe ....... 61 



Members of the Early Faculty, by Professor Cook . 71 

 How They Taught in the Early Days, by Doctor 



Bessey 82 



The College in 1870, by Doctor Beal .... 88 

 Early Members of the Governing Board, by Mr. C. 



W. Garfield 02 



Mendelssohn's Oratorio Elijah on 



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