The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-06
"CnnsrcsAionn, Alumni,

~ the Sdiior or The Times Dispatch;
Sir,-I havc read With intcres, your
editorial IN the paper OF February i. In
which YOU say:
General surprise VIII lie fel, over
the announcement that the University
OF Michlgan has more alumni in Con
Srcss tnan any other college or uni
Tcrs!ty III the turning oui of con
Ercssional timber. the Michigan in
stltut!on now stands We'll ahead Of tho
rest, Tor II has twcnty-ssven men IN
Congress. Harvard follows, With six
teen aiusnni Yale and the UNIVERSITY
q ri, Si ,Ia,da AS tea for 'hird place.
It shonld really surprise no one VINO
IS familiar with the extensive cduca.
uonal worH done In the past fou,
decades BY the University 81 Michigan
more Familiarity known as .'Ann Ar
hor--nnder the administration Of
president Angell from 1871 10 1909,
dents, cquaied by very few OF the East
ern institutions and with great
treasury Or financial resource, It's sons
should nave come to the front 81 many
departments ~ American l!fc
But the further statement tfint Mich
igan so far exceis in reprcsc ton in
ne present Congress the University OF
Virginia In point of numbers as YOU
From the official Congressional Di.
rGGctory OF the Third Session OF Tho
Slxty-frs. Congress beginning Decem-
TO NovcmpHr 80, 1910, I take the names
of the following alumni! OF the uni-
s ,1y 81 Nirginia-nineteen IN all, In
Senator'S Clarke. Of Arkansas; Rayner.
OF Marylnnd Percy. OF sIississ,pni:
Gulberson and Bailey. OF Texas, and
Martin ara Swanson. OF Virginia; Rep
IesentatiFas Dent and Underwood OF
Alabama: bartlett OF Georgia: Nor,
fison. Of Indiana Sherley, OF Ken
. lucky; Mudd. Of Maryland; Webb, OF
North Carolina; Gregg, OF Texas. and
1far g t<.r, ,..f1
OF Virginia :.
It thus appears that there are seven
United states Senator's and twelve Rep
VINO arc University of Virginia alumni,
IN the same volume occur the names
OF Tour Senator's recently deceased. OF
whom Senators Daniel, or Virginia.
and McEnerv, of louisiana were also
alumni or tie University of Virginia
20 mat the representation of our uni.
CGerslty IN he present tsixty-first)
OF fifteen, and stands now nineteen
against MIchgan's .twenty-seyen. ::
Harva.rd's sixteen and Yale's en-
It has hcen No uncommon thing in
he past nifty years for the University
or n,irginia to, excel all other American
, ms Z, ions, in point Of numerical
When the vast excess in the relative
numbers % students OF the biz, North
ern universities over the University OF
SthIh III ouSHOut lis career is con-
sidcred the latter institution viii DO
seen to nave kept pretty steadily, we'll
10 me front II, Congress: and the az
sart!on might be safely ventured that
an Inspection and comparison Of tha
oilciai congressional records VIII show,
mat since 1888, and possibly enrljcr
which was twenty-five years afte. Il
t Mas opanea 70 students. and barring
me Period Of the War between tho
states. the University OF Virginia in
proportion 70 the number Of It's alumni.
mas, ms pGen more largely represented in
noth the Senate and the House Of Ron.
iessentatives than has been any other
iihstilnton of higher education in
america, an not excepting Harvard, Yale.
rrlnceton ana Ann Arbor.
lee n = me ~, pi esent Congress It heads the
compari 5on OF the ability and charao.
a fr 81 ~, ne r,nnresentation Of Michigan
be perhaos impossible. as 1t would Sew
lnvidious. IN III $3.50 eein
.tRMlsTEAD c. GORDON.
stanton, February 9. III se''i'ls