THE TUG OF WAR ACROSS THE HURON. The Freshman losing in the Annual Freshman-Sophomore contests 208 FOUR SOCIETY HOUSES. Psi Upsilon, Sigma Phi, Phi Delta Theta, Collegiate Sorosis 209 WATERMAN GYMNASIUM FOR MEN 236 FERRY FIELD FROM THE NEW STAND, showing the gates and the Club House 248 A VIEW OF ANN ARBOR. Across the Valley of the Huron. The Hospital Buildings, with the University Beyond 272 ALONG THE HURON. A Glimpse of Ann Arbor's Park System 280 THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS IN THE SEVENTIES 286 THE CAMPUS ELMS 287 THE CAPTAINS OF THE THREE STUDENT COMPANIES IN 1861. Charles Kendall Adams, '61, Captain of the University Guards; Isaac H. Elliott, '61, Captain of the Chancellor Greys; Albert Nye, '62, Captain of the Ellsworth Zouaves. 300 THE STUDENTS' ARMY TRAINING CORPS. Drawn up before the Michigan Union (fall of 1918) 312 ONE OF THE FOURTEEN-INCH NAVAL GUNS IN FRANCE. Whose crews were largely composed of the Michigan Naval Volunteers. 313 THE CONCOURSE OR GENERAL LOBBY IN THE MICHIGAN UNION 336 THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION One early June day some fourscore years ago, it was 1837 to be precise, a party of distinguished visitors arrived in what was then the little backwoods community of Ann Arbor. The interest of the loiterers at the country tavern and the corner grocery was no doubt aroused by their coming, for Ann Arbor we may suppose was not different from other small places; and this curiosity could hardly have been lessened by the fact that the newcomers were all men who figured prominently in the affairs of the State, which had been admitted to the Union only four months before. Whatever the speculation aroused by the personnel of the party, however, the business that called them to Ann Arbor caused little comment, if we are to judge from contemporary reports. Yet this unpretentious gathering of notables was charged with the inauguration of what was to become one of the most significant developments in the history of American education,--the establishment and successful maintenance of a University by the people of a State. Thus met for their first session the Regents of the future University of Michigan. Unfortunately we do not know the particulars of this meeting; not even in what country lawyer's office or public hall it was held; still less are we able to profit from any of the illuminating details or personal comments a modern observer would have given us. Our knowledge of the character of the men, and the official report of what they did, is all we have to reveal the spirit in which they set themselves to their task.