New-York tribune., 1889-10-18
Il WESTERN STUDENT WELCOME
THE INTERNATIONAL DELEGATES AT
MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY.
AN ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION At ANN ARBoR
ANDA YACHTING TRIP AT DETROIT
COMPRISES THE DAYS
PROGRAMME.

Ann Arbor, Mich, Oct. 1.-THE comfort and
physical capabilities of the Al[Amercas
party were considered at Detroit. The re-
cent indications Of wearness and fatigue on the
part of the Southern members began to be appre-
oiated there. Though the great train arrived
there at a. m, after an easy run from Cleveland
during the night the party were not hurried al
breakfast and were not surrendered TO the local
Reception Committee until o'clock. They were
then conducted to the dock near the Union Depot,
where four steam yachts received them. The
craft belonged to Hiram Walker, Senator McMil-
Ian, Alfred Il. Brush and Truman Ncwberry, and
all prettiy dressed in colOrs, steamed up the De
trOit River, around Belle Isle and down to the
Exposition grounds and returned to the dock.
Thence the company was driven about the town,
being served at the home of Senator Mcmillan
with luncheon. The diversion Of yacht ride was
a welcome break in the round of factory inspec-
ton and travel upon wheels.
At p. III. the travellers rejoned their train
and started for Ann Arbor. Not since Albany s
reception Of the excursion has such a scene been
presented as that which greeted the travellers
when the train stopped at the depot here at 4
o'clock this afternoon. The green hillside op-
posite the depot was thronged with people.
Flags hung from well nigh all windows in the
vicinity, and carriages filled with folks from
the surrounding countryside blocked all street
approaches save the route along which the eXcur-
sion party were to be driven to Michigan Uni
vcrsity. AS the party filed from the train to
carriages the hillside became bank of futtering
handlxerchicfs and flags. The children cbeered
shrlly the older people shouted, and a collection
of brass instruments manned by students sounded
three cheers. The scene had stirring elements,
but the surprise Of the occasion came five minutes
later, when the carriages had passed up the hill
side roadway on to the main street. Along each
side was line Of hearty, luSty young men.
Twenty five hundred in number there were, and
many of the foreign delegates with difficulty
were made TO understand that all were OF one
educational institution. The carriages halting,
the students, every one with barred heads, ranged
in lines each side as an escort, and thus pro-
ceeded to march to the university.
Ahgh6ng from their carriages, the guests filed
between the students, the band playing, and en-
tering the university and its auditorium the WIS.,
ItOIS were escorted to seats on the stage. Dr.
Angel sat in the centre of the front row.
President Angel, stepping forward, welcomed the
delegates to the Congress. If they had assumed
that weak lungs were the heritage OF this North
ern climate, the assumption must have been dis
PEELED. He hoped that their visit would conduce
10 strengthen the CONNIE rcal relations between
their countries and the United States, and also TO
strengthen those ties of Intellectual Dro hernood
which stood above commercial relations, ana
which, thank Cod divided by no national
barriers Whatever obstacles might be found In
the establishment of closer commercial
relations, there were none to the free
interchange of thought between these people
Cervantes and other Spanish authors were as
truly ours as yours" said DR.. Angel, " while
men like Shakespeare belonged to no country, but
to the world. We all belong TO one intellectual
household He then proceeded to S <etch rapidly
and succinctly the principles upon which the Ann
Arbor University was founded and how the West
ern universities differed from corresponding Easter
Institutions.
At the conclusion of DR.. Angell's speech the
glce club rende red q selection and SenOr Zegarra,
the Minister and delegate from Peru. and gradu-
ate of % United States university, addressed the
audience. lie said that he one of them, and
they would excuse him if he began with such
stupendOus praise The greeting extended by
President Angel found responsive chord in his
heart. The delegates had come surrounded, wei
coined by pomp such as had greeted no monarch
in the world. While one monument of science
existed in this happy land it should bear honor
to the University of Michigan.
Song closed the exercises, and the delegates
partaken of at the houses of President Angel and
Professors Cooley and Rogers. A tour of the
university buildings and reception ended the
party was speeding on its way TO Grand Rapids.
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