Title: American state universities, their origin and progress
First published: 1875
Description: Chapter headings are:

-Sketch of the Early Progress of Higher Education in the Atlantic States
-The State of Culture in the West at the Commencement of the Congressional Land-Grant Policy, and subsequently
-Congressional Land Grants for Universities
-Michigan’s Early Condition as to Culture and Education
-Early Organization for Higher Education in Michigan, and their Contemporary Events
-Grant of the Present University Fund and its Administration by the Board of Trustees
-Organization of the School System and Administration of the Endowment Fund
-The Branches – Rise of Union Schools
-Preparations for the Opening of the University at Ann Arbor and the Actual Organization of its Working Forces
-Review of the Period from 1844 to 1852
-President Tappan’s Administration
-President Haven’s Administration, and thence to the Present Time
-Conclusion of the History of the University of Michigan
-The Prospective University
-Conclusion
-Appendix
Subjects: University of Michigan, Universities and colleges, University Michigan
Places: United States
LC classification: LA226  .T28