The Daily soliphone., 1902-05-02
FROM ANN ARBOR.
Greene County Boy Writes ln- teresting Letter From the
 University of Michigan. c
Magnificent Equipment in One ot the Nations Leading Law Schools
 Bryan Delivers an Address.

c. E. Waddell is in receipt of lengthy and interesting letter from his young friend, A. E. Hooker, who is pleasantly remembered and well Known by many Greene county peo" ple. now a student in the junior class of the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Mr. Hooker is highly pleased with the school and his sur roundings. His complimentary ref erence to Hon. William J. Bryan will be read with interest by those who are familiar with the writer s poll- tics, he being a republican. Among other things, he says:
 "Thirty- eight miles west oi the great and beautiful city of Detroit, situated on glacier hills, is the city of Ann Arbor, by far the prettlest little city l ever saw. It has a pop ulation of 5000 Near it's center on a campus of forty acres stands the University of Michigan, which is composed of some twelve or fifteen colleges housed in twenty two large brick and stone buildings, costing S2 GOO, GOO. Three hundred and fifty professors and assistants are active- " engaged instructing the 5, ,o00 stu- dents from all parts of the world.
 '.In the college of law are twenty five professors and 887 students. l am in the junior class and will grad uate in June, 1903. This. as you know, is the greatest law school on earth. These eminent instructors are not only learned in the law, but are broad mentally and morally and their characters stand out boldly for our emulation. Only eternity can meas ure the effect of their influence. Prof. Mechem, slender, pale-faced, gray haired man, aged about forty-five, has the merited reputation of being the finest instructor of law in this country{ He is by far the plainest reasoner and can simplify hard legal Doints the best 1 ever saw. And what have said of Prof. Mechem can be justly applied to each Of the other professors.
 "The law library has 0,OO0 books as the disposal of the students, and four assistants are constantly on hand to assist the students. There ace three large lecture rooms, six recitation rooms, offices of the facul- ty, library, practice court rooms, students and professors consuita- tion rooms, and many others in the law building. In the general library are 120 ,O00 books, stored in fire- proof vaults. A new medical build- ing is now nearing completion, to cost S1O0 ,000. Six hundred and sixty medical students are in attend ance.
 This season we were treated to lectures by Chinese Minister Wu Ting Fang, Hon. Russell A. Alger, Henry Watterson, Senator Fair banks, Bird Coler, Governor Altgeld, Max O'Ren, Secretary Shaw and many others. Shaw made by far the most statesmanlike speech l ever heard. Hon. William J. Bryan de- livered the Washington $ day ora tion. You may talk of your slick tonpued takers, but he is a power. He steered almost clear of politics out dropped 8 few hot shots into the republican ranks. The hall was packed with 4,000 people, and the law students occupied reserved seats in front of the free silver hero '
 Referring al length to the museum laboratory and art gallery, with their costly equipment, he says "Aa these things are calculated tt