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... express preferences in matters of state , and thus pre- pared them for the complete self - government that would come with statehood . Michigan long remained in a condition of tutelage 12 HIGHER EDUCATION IN MICHIGAN .
... express preferences in matters of state , and thus pre- pared them for the complete self - government that would come with statehood . Michigan long remained in a condition of tutelage 12 HIGHER EDUCATION IN MICHIGAN .
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... complete by the selection of the lands until some time after the date of the treaty just mentioned . June 20 , 1821 , Hon . Austin E. Wing , in the meeting of the governing board of the new " University of Michigan , " introduced the ...
... complete by the selection of the lands until some time after the date of the treaty just mentioned . June 20 , 1821 , Hon . Austin E. Wing , in the meeting of the governing board of the new " University of Michigan , " introduced the ...
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... complete effect of this brave and vigorous statement , we can not tell . The legislature did interfere with the management of university affairs for some 12 years after the rendering of this report . 1 Quoted in Historical and ...
... complete effect of this brave and vigorous statement , we can not tell . The legislature did interfere with the management of university affairs for some 12 years after the rendering of this report . 1 Quoted in Historical and ...
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... complete serenity and good feeling . But the choice of the board finally fell on a man whose strength of charac- ter and personal worth looked down opposition and petty jealousies , and and those who had come to object and cavil ...
... complete serenity and good feeling . But the choice of the board finally fell on a man whose strength of charac- ter and personal worth looked down opposition and petty jealousies , and and those who had come to object and cavil ...
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... complete by the development and complete equipment of a university which would become the mainspring of the whole . So generous and comprehensive were his ideas , so complete in their scope , that the statement of Dr. Frieze , though ...
... complete by the development and complete equipment of a university which would become the mainspring of the whole . So generous and comprehensive were his ideas , so complete in their scope , that the statement of Dr. Frieze , though ...
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Page 41 - Regents, and be the principal executive officer of the University. The Board of Regents shall have the general supervision of the University, and the direction and control of all expenditures from the University interest fund.
Page 31 - State for the use of a University; and the funds accruing from the rents or sale of such lands, or from any other source, for the purpose aforesaid, shall be and remain a permanent fund...
Page 32 - ... to regulate the course of instruction, and prescribe, under the advice of the professorships, the books and authorities to be used in the several departments, and also to confer such degrees and grant such diplomas as are usually conferred and granted by other universities.
Page 31 - The object of the University shall be to provide the inhabitants of the state with the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the various branches of literature, science and the arts.
Page 26 - ... to establish colleges, academies, schools, libraries, museums, atheneums, botanic gardens, laboratories and other useful literary and scientific institutions, consonant to the laws of the United States of America, and of Michigan, and to appoint officers and instructors and instructrices, in, among, and throughout the various counties, cities, towns, townships and other geographical divisions of Michigan.
Page 15 - June next, all that part of the Indiana Territory which lies north of a line drawn east from the southerly bend, or extreme, of Lake Michigan, until it shall intersect Lake Erie, and east of a line drawn from the said southerly bend through the middle of said lake to its northern extremity, and thence due north to the northern boundary of the United States, shall, for the purpose of temporary government, constitute a separate Territory, and be called Michigan.
Page 26 - The honorarium for a course of lectures shall not exceed fifteen dollars, for classical instruction ten dollars a quarter, for ordinary instruction six dollars a quarter. If the judges of the court of any county, or a majority of them, shall certify that the parent, or guardian, of any person has not adequate means to defray the expense of the suitable instruction, and that the same ought to be a public charge, the honorarium shall be paid from the treasury of Michigan.
Page 54 - SEC. 6. There shall be elected in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three, at the time of the election of a justice of the supreme court, eight regents of the university, two of whom shall hold their office for two years, two for four years, two for six years, and two for eight years.
Page 12 - Frenchmen of the Territory of Michigan! You ought to begin immediately to give an education to your children. In a little time there will be in this Territory as many Yankees as French, and if you do not have your children educated, the situations will all be given to the Yankees.
Page 173 - All specific state taxes, except those received from the mining companies of the upper peninsula, shall be applied in paying the interest upon the primary school, university and other educational funds and the interest and principal of the state debt in the order herein recited, until the extinguishment of the state debt, other than the amounts due to educational funds, when such specific taxes shall be added to, and constitute a part of the primary school interest fund.