The Detroit times., 1912-06-26
i, OF N. ANNIVERSARY
WEEK USHERED IN WITH
REUNIONS AND ADDRESSES
Hon. Lawrence Maxwell, 1872
Graduate, Pays Fine Tribute
to President Emeritus AngelI
PARADE A BIG FEATURE
Prof. jerks, Cornell, to Be Prin-
cipal Speaker at Commence
ment Exercises Thursday
PARADE A BIG FEATURE

ANN ARBOR, Mich, June 26.-To
day is the big day OF Jubilee week OF
the University OF Michigan, having
more events crowded into It's IL hours
than any day during the celebration
of the 10Th anniversary OF the found.
Ing OF Michigans big educational in.
stitution.
According to the Dix reunion plan,
class reunions were held as follows:
Semi-centennial reunion OF the class
OF 90; quarter-centennial OF the class
es or 81 in the literary and medical
departments; joint reunions OF the
classes OF '73, IA. rs, '76 and '92, '93,
"a, '95 with the classes OF '52, 81, '67,
SO, '72, s2. 81, '02, '07 In the literary
and engineering departments re-
unions in the medical department of
the classes OF '61, '72. '73, IA, II, 's2.
/ 81. '92, "a, 80, '02, '07; reunions in
the la~ department OF the classes OF
'6S. '76. II. 80, "a, '95, 81, '02, or;
reunion in the dental department OF
the class OF '02.
Commemoration day was ushered
in this morning at o'clock with bugle
call announcing the ceremony Of hoist
ing the American flag o nthe big flag
stan in the center OF the campus, and
from that hour 10 8 o'clock, when the
academic procession around the cam
pus walks 10 the big tent where the
commemoration day exercises were
held, was taken up in the assembling
OF the members OF the faculty, invited
guests, old graduates and the mem
bers of this years graduating classes
for the parade The parade was a
spectacular event, all OF the partici-
pants being garbed in academic
gowns. many of them with bright col
cred hoods. Dean NJ. +. Cooley, OF
the engineering department, was mar
shal of the day, and he was aided in
the execution OF his commands by a
bugle corps from Detroit
The big tent, which is said TO seat
5,0Oe people, was crowded when Hon.
Lawrence Maxwell, of Cincinnati, who
graduated from Michigan in 1879.
arose 10 deliver the commemoration
day address.
Mr.. Maxwell gave a history OF the
big institution, from its Inception, and
paid particular attention to the part
which President Emeritus Angel has
played in IL. Among other things he
said:
President Tappan, who served the
university III years, has been justly
spoken of as the founder Of the uni
yersity. for he infused II with new life
and laid out the bold and comprehen-
sive plans, without which IL would
never have emerged from the obscur-
ty of the provincial school President
Haven and Acting President Frieze
supplemented his work during COM
paratively short administrations, until
in 1871 dawned, the auspicious day
that brought to the university the
president TO whom. more than to any
other man or set OF men, Is due the
credit for its success. In very truth
We celebrate today what .he has
achieved. When he came to the uni
versity 1t had LOO students; when he
retired they numbered 5,223. Forty
thousand persons studied at the uni
versity during his presidency, and
from every corner of the globe they
send their tribute of affection We re.
turn thanks for his gracious presence.
Teacher, editor, public servant. col
lege president. diplomat and orator, It
has fallen TO few men, II any, in all
the history OF the republic to have
wrought so nightly for a higher civil
ization."