Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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32 I , i \ i RSIrv oi [LLII - 3 indent of Public Instruction, and tlu* Pi stdent i State 1 nl of Viticulture, cx-officio member and t\ the nt. eight citi ens apj >inted b) tin (lovernor, Th< :hief :utn who N V Iso a member i the Board, w I R nt instt 1 I Pi sident, as at pic c u t . This I dy was .soon I and to he t o unwieldy, and in [873 a new law v | pa i, • aiding that the Board should consist of nine membei PI inted by the Governor), three from each gi nd judicial div n f the State. Women w re not admitted, and the Trustees in the I • gin nil emphasized their belief in the fact that the Unh ity w l be made a practical institution by the following r h n: , C 0- R< olved, that we recognize it as a duty of the Board of T r u s t e e s to make this University preeminently a practical school of agriculture and the mechanic arts, not excluding other s ntific and classical studies." cry student was required to spend fi m one to two loin a d in manual lab r for the institution, for which a iod< t remuneration was allowed, Seventy-seven students were enroll 1 during the first term of the University, which began M h I I , 1868. The first Regent, as he was then called, was Or. John Milton Gi gory of Kalamazoo, Michigan, Dr, Gregory t r v e d the University as its executive head from March i-\ 1867, a year before the institution was formally opened, until 1880. II<- \ born July 6, 18J it Sand Lake, New He graduated fi m Union < >1 1< in 1840, studi 1 law fi m [846 t 1848, and later, after some time spent in ic fit theology, he entered the Baptist ministry, H < in in a se n<\.i\<, scho I in Michigan for a time, and v i in 1 58 el I state superintendent ^i public instrtu n of 1 1 Michigan, which position he held until when he was eh \ I to the president) of Kahuna Id I a man f th hi 1 ideal and of th I • t .11! 1; had a tat 1 hing \ 1 -n of wl t 1 JI tliti< u • a tat« I m\ \ should I 11 1 II ! I |hl< to a nphsh ; and h 1 \M\ vol I t la) til 1
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