New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-19
IFrom the New Orleans Advocate
Editorial Correspondence.
MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY.

NAAAASAA DNAOAO bAAO ANpA . NAAAAS
tan Association of the University of
Michigan brought US to the beautiful
town of Ann Arbor. We were the
guests of President Haven, and shall
long remember the attention received
from him and his excellent lady. Under
the Presidency of DR.. Haven the
University has reached a degree of
prosperity unknown in its past his
tory, and its present condition is the
promise of no mean future. With a
campus of forty acres, delightfully."-
located, with spacious buildings for
lectures and recitations, with museums
containing specimens Of orthodoxy,
ichthyology physiology, geology, min
eralogy, and many works of art; with
laboratory large and well arranged,
with a corps of professors, whose
scholarly reputation is national, and
even European, and with not less than
700 students in annual attendance,
the University of Michigan is power
in the nation. Hitherto the State ap-
preparations have been sufficient, but
at present they are not equal to cur
rent demands. Twenty hundred
dollars a year is a sum too small for
the President of such a university,
and especially for Michigan. DR..
Haven can command $4,000 per an
mum in any one of a dozen positions in
our own church, and what is true of
him is also true of such eminent schol-
airs as Wintohell, Watson, and Will
liams. But this world pays less for
brains than for any other negotiable
commodity.
1t gives us great satisfaction to
state that President Haven is held in
very high esteem both by the regents,
professors. and alumni of the uniYer-
sity, and by the citizens of the State.
The ripe scholar, the beautiful Chris
tian, the eloquent orator, he is a chosen
vessel in which is the excellency of
power. He should be a bishop in our
church. Associated with him is Pro-
fessor Wintchell, whose reputation has
crossed the ocean and gained for him
a place among the great scholars of
the old world.
When in 1864 the steamer Empress
was fired into opposite Milliken's Bend
he was on board, and the awful scene
through which we then passed was
recalled when we met him at Ann
Arbor.
1t was temptation too great to re-
sist to remain at Ann Arbor and enjoy
the commencement exercises. Our
Southern residence had deprived us of
such privileges, and we gladly tarried.
On Monday evening we heard Mr..
Mayo on western Culture and West
ern Manhood" and on the following
evening we listened with pleasure to
Rev. Mr.. Fisk on the university |
of Michigan" On Wednesday the
Methodist Church was crowded with |
those who came to witness the exer-
oises on commencement day, and |
among the visitors were Major General |
Pope and staff. The graduating class
was large, and the addresses were
and well received. With
one or two exceptions, each subject
was not only practical in itself but ex-
pressed in Saxon so severe as to be
unpleasant to classical ears. There
was even homely plainness in some
cases which does not necessarily flow
from a university education. There
we're also some specimens of real elo-
iuenee. ut the alumni dinner that
followed there was delicious fare,
social intercourse, and many good ten
minutes speeches.
YOUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
We arrived at Detroit in time to at
tend the thirteenth annual session of
Ihe International Convention, COM
posed Of delegates from the Young
Mems Christian Associations of the
United States and the British Prov
noes. The Convention was held in
he Central Methodist Episcopal
Church, which is among the most
magnificent churches in America.
)ver GOO delegates were in attend
nee, and a finer body of young men
re have never seen assembled. Pious,
Intelligent, and business-like men,
hey are at once the beauty and
'ower Of the Christian church. Mr..
Thane Miller, Of Cincinnati, Ohio,
vas chosen President, assisted BY
Ar. R. R. Mckinney, of New York, as
irst Vice-President. AS Mr.. Miller
$ blind, Mr.. Mckinney was indispen-
able 10 him in the rapid discharge Of
lis duties. Indeed the latter was
18th eyes and brains to the former;
nd it was not little interesting to
fitness the motions Of these two gen
lemen in presiding over the delibera-