3i8 MICHIGAN STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 



JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY 



Dear Sir: I regret very much that I have not been able to 

 find anyone who can serve as delegate of this university at your 

 coming celebration. The time is most unfortunate for us, as 

 we shall then be engaged in our final examinations, and the 

 presence of every member of the staff is necessary. I intended 

 to see whether I could not find someone elsewhere who could 

 properly represent us, but for one reason and another I have 

 not been successful in this, and it is now too late. 



Be assured of the hearty good-will of the Johns Hopkins 

 University toward the Michigan Agricultural College, and 

 accept our hearty congratulations upon the completion of your 

 first half-century. Under other conditions we should unques- 

 tionably have taken great pleasure in sending a representative 

 to express more fully and more satisfactorily our high regard. 



I am, yours very respectfully, 



Ira Remsen, President 



Baltimore, Md. 

 May 13, 1907 



