FOR MICHIGAN AND ITS UNIVERSITY 



PRESIDENT JAMES BURRILL ANGELL 



It is with pleasure that I come to bring the cordial salutations 

 of the University of Michigan to the Agricultural College on this 

 glad day. The relations between the two institutions have 

 always been most friendly. The University has furnished two 

 able presidents to the College, President Fiske, and Presi- 

 dent Willits, whose administrations form important chap- 

 ters in your history. Not to speak of those younger teachers 

 who have been trained in our halls, we remember as you 

 do with pride the long and conspicuous services of our gradu- 

 ates, Dr. Kedzie and Dr. Beal. It would perhaps be diflScult to 

 name a teacher in any institution whose services have been 

 more useful to Michigan than those of Dr. Kedzie; and Dr. 

 Beal, we are happy to say, is still spared to continue his long and 

 creditable career. Not a few of your graduates have to our great 

 satisfaction come to us and won distinction in specialties which 

 it was not your province to furnish. 



As you well know, in the early 50' s the University authorities 

 were desirous that the College should become a member of the 

 University household. But the coy maiden declined our suit, 

 and so we have each led a life of single blessedness. We at the 

 University have often been inclined to think that it would have 

 been better for both of us if we had joined our fortunes at that 

 time. But we are compelled to remember that it is unprofitable 

 for rejected suitors to complain, especially when the coy maiden 

 has prospered so well by herself in her own household. 



Like all educational state institutions in the younger states 

 this College has had her days of juvenile troubles — what I often 

 compare to the mumps and measles and whooping cough in 



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